The AKP at the crossroad in the Middle East

Cüneyt ÜLSEVER

Military-civilian tension weakens country

Mehmet Ali Birand

The new government's foreign policy agenda (II)

İlter TÜRKMEN

 

PKK or others?

Mehmet Ali Birand

Military coup is not a solution

Murat YETKİN

The TSK's long-term military and strategic thinking

David MERAHN

 

[MONDAY TALK]Paker: Class differences cause divisions, not the secularist debate

by YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN

When Abdullah Gül became president on Aug. 28, Turkey became more civilian, according to Can Paker, a prominent figure in Turkish business and civil society.

Turkey: a lone wolf or bridge between civilizations?

Samuel Huntington, author of "The Clash of Civilizations," called Turkey a "torn" country. Recent surveys on how Turks feel about the West and the East prove him right.

Scientific way to better present 'Turkishness'

Assuring that ''Turkishness'' is in line with a highly civilized culture will be the basis of the new culture policy, said Ertuğrul Günay, minister of Culture and Tourism at the International Congress of Asian and....

 

The AKP and Alevis

It is general knowledge that the Alevis, who form the largest religious minority in Turkey, not only made up an important portion of the population taking part in the pro-secularism demonstrations held prior to the July 22 elections, but also voted -- to a great extent -- for the Republican People's Party (CHP) in the same election.

Two-faced politics

by MAHİR KAYNAK, STAR

It has been proposed that the struggles in Turkey are between secularists and the religious, while bureaucracy restrains freedom and constitutes an obstacle in front of true democracy.

Prospects of Extremist Secularism in a Democratic World

by Grassroots

"Prospects of Extremist Secularism in a Democratic World

A de facto phenomena in world politics since the early twentieth century till our present day has been the constant conflict between an Extremist Secularist political current and a Moderate Islamist one. Turkey and Egypt have simultaneously witnessed the conflict in question, each in his own way. Secularist powers in both countries have led a violent struggle to eradicate an ever-growing Islamist trend, in Turkey to preserve the principles of the so-called laïcité (Atatürk's version of Secularism), and in Egypt to smother the Muslim Brotherhood, thus preventing a moderate Islamist movement from approaching political life. While doing this, Secularists have openly declared their complete disengagement with the mainstay of democracy and human freedoms– the once-avowed tenets of Secularism."

FORUM: Abdullah Gul, a Muslim modernizer - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Turks love only ... Turks

by dozdemir@ceip.org (Deniz Ozdemir)

This year's Transatlantic Trends survey (put out by the German Marshall Fund) lists a slew of facts and figures on how the West is "losing" Turkey. Turks' attitudes towards the U.S. (11 degrees on the "feelings" thermometer), the EU (26°), and Israel (5°) remain icy as usual. But this isn't anything all that new: The Pew Global Attitudes Survey released earlier this year pegged Turks as having the most unfavorable view of the United States (check out FP's list on America's admirers).

Is presidential secretary-general 'objectionable' too?

Murat YETKIN

İlnur Çevik Even Israel trusts Gul but the CHP does not…

 

 

What will become of the CHP?

The crack within the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) grew even stronger on Sunday as two groups within the party organized two separate demonstrations to mark the 84th anniversary of the party’s establishment.

Ceremony state

by KÜRŞAT BUMİN, YENİ ŞAFAK

As you may have suspected, I am referring to the Anıtkabir [the nation’s founder Atatürk’s mausoleum] ceremony and visitations.

Mustafa Akyol:

Abdullah Gül, A Muslim Modernizer