Gül poised to become the president today....
Turkey's presidential hopeful Abdullah Gul addresses the media in Ankara August 17, 2007. Gul is set to be elected Turkey's next president on Tuesday, the first time in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history that the post will go to a former Islamist. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
As Turkey's world turns -- The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
Some developments, good or bad, can catch us so fully by surprise that they feel like a joke. But the best jokes are a reflection of an emotional threat as they mirror the truth."...
Candidate Once Doomed as Islamist Is Ascendant - New York Times
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and SEBNEM ARSUAfter being shut out of the presidency last spring, Abdullah Gul, a religious man in the assiduously secular realm of Turkish politics, allowed himself a little soul-searching.
“Has the government limited women’s rights?” Mr. Gul, 56, asked a panel of newspaper editors on national television, hoping to persuade Turkey’s establishment that it had nothing to fear from his candidacy. "..
Turkey's President Ahmet Necdet Sezer (front) makes a farewell visit to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, in Ankara, August 28, 2007. Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul is set to be elected Turkey's next president on Tuesday, the first time in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history that the post will go to a former Islamist. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY)
DTP, a big opportunity
In resolving the problem of terrorism, we desperately need a party that loudly proclaims terror is not a reason but an outcome.
Civil situations
In the present, international human rights documents and constitutions recognize “citizenship” as one of the basic rights, but in reality, it is actually the essential basic right on which the existence of all other rights depends.
While Sezer’s term is ending
The classical rule says, “Laws are for practice -- if laws change, practice will change as well.”
DTP’s history chance on bridge between hell and paradise by M.NACİ BOSTANCI*
The Democratic Society Party (DTP) candidates couldn’t enter Parliament in the 2002 elections because of the 10 percent election threshold. But in the 2007 elections, by running with independent candidates, they won enough seats to found a group.
