President Abdullah Gül’s official visit to Washington comes at a time when Turkish-American relations appear to be at their best since March 2003. What a difference a couple of months make...
Quite rightly, Today’s Zaman has chosen the presidential election as the event of 2007. Indeed the election, which increased political tension and caused the military to issue a memorandum, substantially marked the entire year.
The Turkish-American relationship is going through a new phase. It’s as if we are living the spring in the middle of the winter, given that it was not so long ago that cold winds were blowing between the two countries.
Spotlight: Abdullah Gul – Outsider smooths US relations When Abdullah Gul, Turkey’s president, arrives at the White House on Tuesday for his first official meeting with US President George W. Bush, he is sure to get a warm welcome
Hopes about the further normalization of Turkish-US relations are high as President Abdullah Gül is to have a meeting with US President George W. Bush today.
By TAHA AKYOL, MİLLİYET
Nur Vergin gave an interview to the Vatan newspaper in which she commented that the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), by forging a bond between the “margins” and the “center” of society, had reduced the anger present in the poorer, more marginal neighborhoods and regions in Turkey.
The Democrat Party’s (DP) congress will be convened to elect a new leader. The Republican People’s Party (CHP) will hold its congress on March 11.
By HASAN CEMAL, MİLLİYET
If the state of being spoilt by power, currently visible in some Justice and Development Party (AK Party) circles, prevails, and if the discrimination of “from us or from them?” surfaces more, the expectations for a normalized and mature democracy may be delayed until another spring.
As Turkey concentrates on rooting out terrorism through military and possible legal and social means, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is shifting its focus from rural warfare
Semih İDİZ
It is clear that there are different types of terrorism. Each one of them is a product of a political system.
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Mavi Boncuk
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorism problem will hopefully be minimized soon. We have to plan the post-PKK era as the demise of the PKK does not mean the evaporation of the Kurdish question.
The fourth of what has been dubbed the “Manama Dialogue” was held in Bahrain on Dec. 7-9, 2007. The Manama meeting is organized annually by British think tank the International Institute of Strategic Studies and hosted by the government of Bahrain.
Cengiz ÇANDAR
Cengiz ÇANDAR
Burak BEKDİL
By BİLAL ÇETİN, VATAN
What Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) want, as formulated by President Abdullah Gül, is to bring an updated Annan plan to the agenda. It does not seem likely that Turkey will accept any proposal that will fall short of that plan.
By HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN, SABAH
The aftermath of the accident in Susurluk has shown with certainty that there is another state beyond the apparent one in Turkey.
By YASİN AKTAY, YENİ ŞAFAK
The way to make the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ineffective in this new period is by actually removing the “Kurdish problem” from its hostage status in the terror group’s hands.
By MUSTAFA KARAALİOĞLU, STAR
Recent comments by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regarding the events in Diyarbakir sum up the situation very well.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday paid a visit to the families of victims of the Diyarbakır attack to offer his condolences. He also visited injured soldiers and civilians in the hospital.
Turkey commemorated the 93rd death anniversary of thousands of Turkish martyrs frozen to death on the Allahüekber Mountains during World War I, 93 years ago, with a ceremony held in the eastern province of Kars’ Upper Sarıkamış village on Sunday.
Hürriyet Supreme State Council records torture The Supreme State Council gave a reasoned decision in the acquittal of former Public Works and Settlement Minister Koray Aydın, the daily Hürriyet reported yesterday. The Council ruled that Deputy Secretary Sedat Aban and his advisor Sadrettin Dinçer had been tortured while giving testimony. The Council said that testimony obtained under torture was not admissable. The Council recorded the incident as torture, which the Kırıkkale Heavy Penal Court had ruled out. Following this precedent decision binding in the courts, the accused Aydın and the tortured former bureaucrats were headed to the European Court of Human Rights. Aydın was accuse
President Abdullah Gül welcomes President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Mehmet Ali Talat with an official ceremony at Çankaya palace on Thursday. Talat could not even enter Çankaya during the term of 10th President Ahmet Necdet Sezer due to differences in their views of a solution for the Cyprus issue.
SABAH Constitution-making as difficult as moving Mount Ararat Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Çiçek, expressing his opinion in a metaphorical manner about new civilian constitution of Turkey, said, “constitution-making is something like moving Mount Ararat, a highly difficult task but a must,” reported daily Sabah yesterday. Speaking on the new draft constitution, Çiçek said the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has not seen the text yet, adding, “the new constitution will be a victory of democracy and Turkish Parliament's gift to the Turkish nation.” Çiçek emphasized there is no need for any groundless fears about Turkey's regime because the new constitution will
Warm exchanges took place between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt on Wednesday as the two attended the opening ceremony at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. After cutting the ribbon Erdoğan handed a piece of it to Büyükanıt as a keepsake of the day.
Taraf Historian not allowed entry to Turkey Mehmet Sait Uluışık, a German citizen of Turkish origins and a journalist-publisher, was banned from entering Turkey without any explanation, the daily Taraf reported yesterday. Uluışık has been carrying out studies on Circassian history since 1860 and the role of Circassians in Armenian events in 1915 by using the Prime Ministry's Ottoman archives. He said while he was working in the archives officials employed there kept him under close observation. “Some people were following me when I left the building, they must have recorded me as persona non grata at that time,” said Uluışık. Uluışık has been living in Germany since 1984 and his
