Miliband: Turkey's Muslims want to be modernizers

Turks become increasingly isolated

Turkish people's feelings toward the United States and the European Union as well as Iran have cooled significantly, revealing a growing isolation from the East and the West, a major survey showed yesterday.

The annual Transatlantic Trends study by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and four European foundations, published Thursday, showed a continuing decline in Turkish support for EU membership and growing criticism of both US and EU global leadership. Support for EU membership among Turks had fallen to less than half of the population, a mere 40 percent, in 2007 -- as compared to 54 percent in 2006. In addition, Turks were more pessimistic than Europeans on prospects that Turkey will eventually become a member of the EU: 56 percent of Europeans believed Turkey will join, compared with just 26 percent of Turkish respondents saying Turkey is likely to join the bloc eventually.

Yavuz Baydar: Two grounds for the power struggle

We should not be tempted to interpret the outcome of the “double elections” (Parliament and president) as the gateway to the heaven of flawless democracy....

Justice for Festus Okey

by MEHMET ALTAN, STAR

It has been 15 days since Nigerian Festus Okey died and his body remains at the Forensic Medical Institute despite friends’ wishes to have his funeral to Nigeria.

Xenophobia on the rise among Turks, say experts - Turkish Daily News Sep 08, 2007

Secularist, Islamist Labels Misleading in Turkey’s Latest Political Crisis

A new Turkey? Al-Ahram Weekly The no-alternative secular ideology of Ataturk appears shattered at last in Turkey, writes Hassan Nafaa

ekathimerini.com | A new Turkey?

ZNet: Secularism and Islam: the Turkish experience link

a nonsense article:
EDM TURKISH STATE STEPS UP PRESSURE ON KURDISH POLITICIANS

IHSAN DAGI: Foreign policy under the new AK Party government (2)

As understood from the government's program and the appointment of Ali Babacan as foreign minister, it is safe to say that the basic orientation and objectives of Turkish foreign policy will not change in this new period.

ALI BULAC: Military is aware of need for change

We've grown accustomed to hearing harsh speeches from state officials, from the military and judicial bureaucracy in particular, on important anniversaries.

Turkey: A maturing democracy Nigar Goksel

Islam, Democracy and Turkey Acton Institute

A new Turkish identity is emerging
Turquie Européenne

MEHMET KAMIS: DTP’s tension strategy

In the July 22 election the Democratic Society Party (DTP), which had an ethnocentric policy, suffered a massive defeat by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which vows to provide more rights and democracy.

The Kurdish problem, the DTP and risks

by ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU, YENİ ŞAFAK

There are two main issues from before the elections and two main issues regarding the new period that I will highlight.

There is a DTP, but no politics

by MEHMET ALİ BİRAND, POSTA

The Kurdish problem is entering a new period with the election of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) into Parliament.

Is the CHP a political party?

by MUSTAFA ERDOĞAN, STAR

Deniz Baykal's Republican People's Party (CHP), distinguished by a policy that is based on crises, deserves to be the focus of attention once again.

Phony republicans

by MÜMTAZ'ER TÜRKÖNE, ZAMAN

The 1961 Constitution represented the transformation of the 1924 Constitution's single-parliament and pluralist system to a weak executive and judicial organ with two chambers in Parliament.

What Kemalists don't understand

by ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU, YENİ ŞAFAK

The July 22 election results, illegitimacy of military intervention, the 75 percent public approval of a covered first lady, the liberal and democratic voter alliance for the AK Party, the demise of the Sept. 12 regime and its constitution and the AK Party's improving reformist roadmap are all positive signs of the new period.

Mustafa Akyol An Open Letter To The Turkish Military

Finally the receptions are over!

Mehmet Ali Birand

The new government's foreign policy agenda

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