Abdullah Gül, the new constitution, Armenians in Turkey, DTP etc...
Gul faces battle to win over military
Tricky relationship between Turkey's new president and military could cause endless problems, not least administrative gridlock, among the main organs of state
What’s more important, Gül’s authorities or his vision? by ESER KARAKAŞ
Everybody knows that the 1982 Constitution gave wide authority to the president...
Controversial video gives Turkey goose bumps
The broadcast of the video for a song whose lyrics praise the killer and masterminds of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink -- who was shot dead earlier this year by ultra-nationalists for allegedly insulting Turkishness -- is sending shockwaves across Turkey.
Provocative video makes headlines
A video prepared for a song, the lyrics of which praised O.S., the teenager who murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and Y.H., one of the inciters behind the assassination was posted on...[MONDAY TALK] Mesrob II: Diaspora deaf to Turkish Armenians
by YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN
"The ‘Armenian genocide resolution' pending in the US Congress disrupts both the relations between Turkish people and Armenians in Turkey and between Turkey and Armenia," said Patriarch Mesrob II (Mutafyan), the spiritual leader of Turkey's Armenian Orthodox community.
Is the Ecumenical Patriarchate case ready to go to European Court of Human Rights? (II)
Orhan Kemal CengizIHSAN DAGI: How to erase the legacy of the military regime: A new constitution
The debate on a new constitution requires a comprehensive questioning of the legacy of the military regime. A democratic regime cannot be thoroughly established in a constitutional order that constantly reminds us of the constituting power of the military.
Out of politics, out of public
by GÜLAY GÖKTÜRK, BUGÜN
The Constitution is not a mere political document, but the most political of all documents. It is like this because it states all the levels, tendencies forming the public and even the people’s will to live together.
Good will is good, but a bad method is bad
by FEHMİ KORU, YENİ ŞAFAK
I have no doubt about the good will of the people preparing the Constitution, but I have serious doubts whether the applied method is good.
Turkish PM to decide on headscarf ban
A controversial decision on whether Turkey's new constitution will allow headscarves in universities will be left to the prime minister as a commission drafting the charter failed to reach agreement...
SAHIN ALPAY: Elections and the Kurdish problem
The parliamentary elections of July 22, 2007, have two highly important consequences for Turkey’s primary problem.What is the DTP doing?
by ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ, SABAH
There is an undeniable reality. One way or another the Democratic Society Party (DTP), has a significant representation capability in southeast Anatolia, Turkey’s most problematic region.
Legality, illegality
It appears that the relationship between separatist chieftain Abdullah Öcalan serving a life sentence on his private Imrali prison island, the separatist gang headquartered in the Kandil mountains in northern Iraq and continue heinous cross-border terrorist attacks in Turkey and the Democratic Society Party (DTP) is far more organic and close than what most of us ever thought of.That bitter reality started to sink in very badly.People who believe in democracy and who defend that remedies could be found to all problems within democracy, often defend that the more diverse the views and political tendencies represented in a Parliament, the smaller the probability for such political tendency...
Fasting and politics
by HASAN CELAL GÜZEL, RADİKAL
Research shows that 80 percent of our public fasts in Ramadan. It means that four out of five of my readers are fasting. I will talk about fasting and Ramadan in my Sunday talk this week.
