"Turkey's EU process back on track
Turkey's EU process back on track
Turkish Foreign Minister and chief negotiator for talks with the European Union, Ali Babacan, chaired a meeting of top bureaucrats yesterday to reactivate the stalled reform process in the...
JTW News - Turkish Islam and Turkey's EU Membership
Europe's relations with the Muslim world is a key issue
Olof Ehrenkrona
French position on Turkey intact
David Martinon, spokesman for French President Nicolas Sarkozy, reiterated France's opposition toward Turkey's bid..
Would Gül and Erdoğan cross swords?
Mehmet Ali Birand
Headscarf wars
Cüneyt Ülsever
Kurdish issue requires wise policy
İlter Türkmen
EKREM DUMANLI: New chapter in Kurdish problem
The elections of July 22, 2007, became a new starting point for Turkey in many respects. For instance, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) issued a memorandum before the elections with the Turkish government on the receiving end of the April 27 memo.
Solution through compromise, not conflict
by MEHMET METİNER, BUGÜN
The newly elected President Abdullah Gül acted wisely toward the remark uttered by representatives of nongovernmental organizations in Diyarbakır: “The new constitution provides opportunity for the resolution of the Kurdish issue.
AKP speeds up work on new constitution
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) completed the first phase of the country's new constitution Sunday after a three-day long session with academics. The draft does not touch the..
Civil constitution will facilitate Turkey’s progress (1) by DR. ÜMİT KARDAŞ
With the 1628 Petition of Right, tax imposition was subjected to the promulgation of a law in that direction and the individual was taken under the protection of the rule of law...
Consensus is a sine qua non for the new constitution
The outrage that has erupted over the draft constitution prepared by a team of specialists gathered by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) still continues to occupy the agenda in Turkey.
And this guy used to be the head of Constitutional Court:
Mustafa Bumin warns: They won't let women not wearing headscarves into universities - Hürriyet
For becoming real secularism proponents
by OKAY GÖNENSİN, VATAN
A serious deficiency in secularism, adopted with the proclamation of the republic, has never come to order duly.