"Turkey planes bomb northern Iraq
Turkey planes bomb northern Iraq
Turkish warplanes fire into northern Iraq, the military says, targeting suspected Kurdish rebels.
Turkey Hits Rebel Kurd Targets in Iraq | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited
İlnur Çevik Turkish military is contradicting itself
EDM REACTIONS TO CHIEF OF STAFF’S COMMENTS UNDERSCORE RIFT BETWEEN TURKISH MILITARY AND NATIONALIST MHP
Why Turks Love Conspiracy Theories (I)
[Originally published in Turkish Daily News] Anybody who spends time in Turkey will notice that conspiracy theories are amazingly popular here. Many Turks believe that there are so many evil powers in the world, and in our own society that perpetually play tricks in order to weaken our country. Mapping out these imagined plots is a sort of national pastime. Since a belief in conspiracies is deeply embedded in culture, politicians use them very often. Most political leaders, or pundits, blame foreign powers or internal enemies for our problems. Even whey they are caught by paparazzis during inappropriate meetings with their secretaries, they confidently accuse their rivals to have designed that conspiracy. It is always someone else who must be guilty. But why? Why are conspiracy theories so popular and credible in Turkey?I have been thinking on that for sometime, and here are some of the answers I have found....
The path is narrowing, again
You can never be constantly optimistic or pessimistic in Turkey, as another observer, columnist Mehmet Altan, said a while ago....
A new era in higher education by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE
Early this week Professor Yusuf Ziya Özcan was appointed the new chair of the Higher Education Board (YÖK), replacing Professor Erdoğan Teziç.
Press Roundup
Heavy snowfall in the winter resort of Kartalkaya in northwestern Turkey trapped many vehicles on the roads. Temperatures all across Turkey have dropped over the past few days.
Secularist contradiction
Though secularists accuse the other party of “making the headscarf issue feature constantly on the national agenda,” it is they themselves who are busy setting off debates over the headscarf issue day and night.
State was already partial
Look at all criticism directed at the newly appointed head of YÖK, Yusuf Ziya Özcan, for merely setting a “sine qua non” objective for higher education.
How the AK Party can go down in history
Two fundamental problems of Turkey, namely the Kurdish and Alevi issues, have been heatedly discussed for the last few weeks.
