"A Chronology: Hrant Dink Murder
A Chronology: Hrant Dinks Murder
Biamag - İstanbul,Turkey
The murder of Agos newspaper's editor-in-chief Hrant Dink on 19 January 2007 in front of his newspaper's office in Sisli, central Istanbul, shocked both ...
Latif Demirci in Hürriyet. PM Erdoğan waiting in the arrivals section for the PKK leaders...
Monthly Review: Notes on the Istanbul Al-Quds Conference
by Salim Nazzal
One extremely positive aspect of the recent Istanbul Al-Quds International Forum is that it took place at all, despite Israeli pressures. It had been known from the beginning that Israel was not happy about any activity that might disrupt the music of the Annapolis orchestra.
Despite the Erdogan government's relative strength in resisting the Israeli pressure, however, it was observed that the lack of any official Turkish government representation at the opening of the conference could be interpreted as meaning that the Turkish government had taken two factors into consideration; the first of these is the fact that its popular base is supportive of Palestine, particularly over the question of Al-Quds (Jerusalem). This situation was reflected in the determination of the Turkish hosts to hold the conference “in the street if the government tries to stop it,” as a leading Turkish figure who was one of the conference organizers, told me. ............................
A timely turbulence for Kurds
Whether there is a master plan to deal with the Kurdish question in Turkey is still a matter of speculation, but one point is clear:The search for tolerance
Turkey is a mosaic. Or so the cliché runs. It is a metaphor in praise of multi-culturalism, a liberal-minded suggestion that the grand design is far more interesting than the component pieces.
Qantara.de - The Case of Hrant Dink - Incitement to Violence as Free Speech
Turkish Press Scanner
AKŞAM AKP has no problem with gay mayor Hüseyin Tanrıverdi, the deputy leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who is responsible for municipalities, said the party does not look at race, color, gender or language when deciding on mayoral candidates, answering a question on whether the AKP will field a gay candidate in Istanbul, the daily Akşam reported yesterday. The debate about a gay mayor for Istanbul started when Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the co-president of the European Greens-European Free Alliance in the European parliament, said during his visit to the parliamentary group of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) that people should
Northern Iraq shouldn't become a second Cyprus
Mehmet Ali Birand
Turkey and northern Cyprus
A few days ago the junior partner of the Turkish Cypriot coalition government, the Freedom and Reform Party (ÖRP), convened its first annual convention. The guest of honor was Egemen Bağış, the deputy chairman for foreign policy of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Scores of other former ministers from various political parties of Turkey were present at the convention as well, but with the presence of Bağış and messages from President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the ruling party of Turkey, leaving no room for any doubt, was declaring its all out support for the new ÖRP and its leader Turgay Avcı, the foreign minister and deputy prime minister of
DTP plays down closure risk
Turkey's pro-Kurdish party will not back down from a case against them opened by the country's top court and it will ''go for broke'' on its way to democracy and peace, the group's leader said
Turkish Press Scanner
Zaman Planting trees will be compulsoryForestation will become compulsory for every citizen under the new Constitution, the daily Zaman reported yesterday. Once the new regulations are put into effect, forestation will be a patriotic duty, like military service. Ahmet İyimaya, head of the Justice Commission of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM), and one of the founders of Turkish Foundation for Reforestation, Protection of Natural Habitats and Combating Soil Erosion (TEMA), said that his proposal is to make planting trees a “patriotic service” incorporated in Article 169 of the new Constitution.İyimaya said that if his proposal is accepted, citizen
Erdogan manages North Iraqi crisis well
Mehmet Ali Birand
The victory of the government's 'snow policy'
Cüneyt ÜLSEVER
Sources of Turkish-US friction
Turkey was a valued ally of the US during the Cold War. The Eisenhower Doctrine gave Turkey a major role in the 1950s in the Balkan and the Middle Eastern theaters and Turkey was also a reliable partner in the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), also known as the Baghdad Pact.
Two scenarios in the Turkey, US, Iraq triangle
by HASAN CELAL GÜZEL, RADİKAL
According to the optimistic scenario, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told US President Bush during his visit to Washington earlier this month that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is being supported by peshmergas and the US forces in Iraq condone the cooperation between the terrorist organization and the Iraqi administration.
Owners of the country
by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE, ZAMAN
The “owners of the country” consider our country their own property. The owners of the country vandalized our country.
Recent past
by UMUR TALU, SABAH
The United States used the threat posed by the PKK terrorist organization toward Turkey as it wished; it kept Turkey in suspense and pushed the AK Party into a corner.
Prime minister’s advice on democracy and facts
by KORAY DÜZGÖREN, YENİ ŞAFAK
I listened to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s inauguration address on Saturday at the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) advisory board meeting.
The gov’t is recovering after inaction
by MUSTAFA ERDOĞAN, STAR
Until a few weeks ago, many people, including me, witnessed that the ruling AK Party was not spurred into action to embark on a new chain of reform processes in its second term though it won a landslide victory in the July 22 polls.
Press Roundup
People line up in long queues in front of a supermarket in Marmaris, a city in the western province of Muğla. The supermarket announced that it will sell one kilogram of anchovies for YTL 1 for one day.
The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq (PDF; 154 KB) Congressional Research Service
The DTP made mistakes, but it was forced to do so
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Turkish anti-Americanism through eyes of Americans living in Turkey
Survey shows tax evasion quite easy in Turkey
