"Upturning Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdogan should stop stalling and resume the constitutional revolution over which he has presided
newroz celebrations (!)
A Kurdish boy walks away during a demonstration in the southeastern Turkish city of Van. Dozens were injured and 300 detained Saturday as police used truncheons and tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several Turkish cities, police and media reports said. (AFP)
Turkish riot police disperse pro-Kurdish demonstrators in Van, eastern Turkey, Saturday, March 22, 2008. Kurdish protesters chanting their support for separatist Kurdish guerillas have clashed with police during the spring festival of Nowruz in eastern Turkey. Dozens have been injured. (AP Photo)
Turks detain 12 in ultranationalist probe
The leader of a Turkish nationalist party, a journalist and the former rector of Istanbul University have been detained in a probe into an ultra-nationalist gang alleged to have plotted a coup, Turkish media saidThe Daily Star - Opinion Articles - Forcibly re-secularizing Turkey will only backfire
Erdogan Says Turkey Won't Accept Closure of Justice Party
Turkey: with or without the headscarf
By Razeshta Sethna3/23/2008
The Turkish government is standing firm after lifting a legal ban that prevents women who wear the headscarf from attending college. But secularists are outraged and say it threatens to create a 'religious pressure' that might have a snowball effect.
