"Dink case a critical test for Turkish judiciary
Tend to Turkey - Council on Foreign Relations
by Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Fall 2007 Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Women condemn Turkey constitution
Women's groups in Turkey attack a new draft constitution, saying it will damage gender equality. 
Sub-commission formed to inquire Dink and Okey murders
The Human Rights Commission of the Parliament decided to form a sub-commission to work on the assassinations of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and Nigerian migrant Festus Okey, who...
‘Without further delay’
“Love it or leave it.” As we stood at the entrance of the courthouse in the Beşiktaş district on Monday morning -- a handful of journalists, colleagues and friends of Hrant Dink -- it was as if the emblem on the front of the van that brought his murderer and alleged helpers was put there deliberately.
Déjà vu
I had a feeling of déjà vu on Monday morning as a small crowd of reporters, well-wishers, human rights activists and foreign observers, hoping and doubting in equal measure that a fair outcome would be reached, gathered in front of the criminal court in Beşiktaş for the second hearing of the Hrant Dink murder trial. Claudia Roth, a German Green Party politician who has been a steadfast supporter of a democratic Turkey in Europe, as well as a staunch critic of human rights violations, was there hoping justice would be done.
Dink case a critical test for Turkish judiciary
The second trial of the defendants accused of assassinating Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, killed in January by an ultranationalist youth for allegedly insulting Turkishness, took place on Monday.Europe has important messages for Turkey...
Mehmet Ali Birand
Hot pursuit
İlter TÜRKMEN
Damn terror!
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Unesco criteria vs. Saraçhane criteria
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Int'l conference discusses Kurdish issue in Diyarbakır
An International Conference looking into how the Kurdish issue can be dealt with was held in the eastern Anatolian city of Diyarbakır over the weekend. At the conference attendees and....
Fears, AK Party and politics
by HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN, SABAH
Strange things are happening in Turkey; everybody is discussing peer pressure and whether or not Turkey will become like Malaysia.
Which one?
by MEHMET ALTAN, STAR
The young women who choose to wear the headscarf should be defended. They have the right to wear what they please.
Turkey and Malaysia
by NURAY MERT, RADİKAL
I previously said I was certain that Turkey isn’t similar to Malaysia and never will be. For years I have somehow fought against the fear of religion and religious people, which has occupied Turkey’s agenda from time to time.
The civilian coup and peer pressure!
by MEHMET METİNER, BUGÜN
The AK Party’s attempts to draft a civil constitution reveal who is truly democratic and who is not. Democracy’s measure is obvious.
Picking the stone out of the well
by YASİN AKTAY, YENİ ŞAFAK
Turkey becoming Malaysia is actually not a question one might pass over by staying within the limits of the scientific method and by saying “we can’t rule out such a possibility.”
Is Turkey heading to ‘authoritarianism’?
by MUSTAFA ERDOĞAN, STAR
Lately a certain part of the media has stressed the “peer pressure” concept and the Malaysian example, writing news that argues Turkey is on its way toward an Islamic authoritarian regime under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
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by SELÇUK GÜLTAŞLI, ZAMAN
I was at the same table with Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik during the iftar in Vienna and was really curious about what Plassnik thinks of the presidency of Abdullah Gül, with whom she sometimes bickered.
