Hürriyet notes that a fourth video is released in Youtube which reveals some off the record talks of senior officials. We are into some intelligence battles whose details may never be known....
A top general in the Office of the Chief of Staff has asked for his discharge following the release of critical comments made by him on the recent military incursion in northern Iraq on
Secular demonstrators chant slogans during a rally marking International Women's Day in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 8, 2008. A demonstrator wearing a head band with a slogan reads that: 'We are following your path. We are guards of the republic' and waves a Turkish flag with a poster of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk on it.
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Tobias Bock: This paper aims at assessing the civil society within Iraqi Kurdistan, the region of the conflict torn country that is often perceived as ‘the other Iraq’ or at least tries to convey this impression to the outside world.
Iraq's President Jalal Talabani (L) and Turkey's President Abdullah Gul applaud each other during an official dinner in Ankara March 7, 2008. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will begin a key visit to Ankara today amid repercussions of Turkey's ground operation into northern Iraq, the first in about a decade, said the Turkish president's press
U.S. is playing both sides of Kurd-Turkey conflict | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register
A medical examination on Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has not revealed any sign of acute or chronic poisoning, said a report of the
Women wave Turkish national flags during a demonstration to mark the International Women's Day in Istanbul March 8, 2008.
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Amendment does not free scarf: Turkish prosecutor Turkish project aims to give Muslims guidance | Special Coverage | Reuters Kurdish women, supporters of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, gestures, during a rally marking International Women's Day in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 8, 2008.
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A municipality in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has printed March 8 Women's Day posters in Chinese to protest the criminal charges it faced for printing posters and invitations
Bianet :: The Country of “Child Women” and Women Who Forgot Their Womanhood Bianet :: “International Women’s Day? Never Heard of It”
Attempting to span Turkey's divisions - Telegraph
Jeremy Seal reviews The Bridge by Geert Mak
The bridge has long served Turkey, at once eastern and western, traditional and liberal, Islamic and secular, as its metaphor-in-chief. One consequence has been to reduce the country's material bridges to the role of symbolic abstractions."
JTW News - USAK Paper on Turkish Economy International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO) has published 2008’s first Working Paper on Turkish Economy. The title of the USAK Paper is “From Crisis to Recovery: Quo Vadis Turkish Economy” in which the major developments within the macro economic field and the financial sector in Turkey from post-crisis period up to 2008 is scrutinized. The paper also reveals the basic problems of Turkish Economy and offers solution proposals to these problems. Here is the executive summary of the paper."
Orhan Kemal Cengiz
An absurd and hyper-phobic practice of former president Ahmet Necdet Sezer will go down the drain today with the arrival of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani at the Çankaya presidential office... Though it will be a “working visit” and Talabani will not be hosted with a full red-carpet treatment or the 21-gun-salute accorded to visiting heads of state on “state visits” to Turkey, this will be the first ever trip to Turkey since the Iraqi Kurdish leader became president of Iraq. Indeed, although Talabani visited Turkey in November 2003 as term chairman of the provisional presidential council, this will be the first ever presidential visit to Turkey from Iraq.It's definitely a long overdue visit,
Semih İDİZ
Mehmet Ali Birand
The Turkish government's initiative to prepare a new constitution and its recent move to lift the headscarf ban in universities was intensely debated at a conference held this week at
Turkish political life witnessed an unprecedented row yesterday as the military and opposition parties confronted each other in battle of words. The General Staff
Murat YETKİN
Labor pains of a woman would be less than a joke compared to the immense excruciating the top commander of the country had to undertake to explain to the media and the nation that the land operation of the Turkish Armed Forces started and finished with the assessments made by the Turkish commanders and that there were no domestic, or foreign (U.S.) inculcation.However, as explained by retired Ambassador Faruk Loğoğlu, the president of the Ankara-based Eurasia Strategic Research Center (ASAM), the statements of the U.S. defense secretary, as well as President George Bush – that coincided with the termination of the land operation and Turkish troops returning home, which was not yet unknown to
Mehmet Ali Birand
By MEHMET ALİ BİRAND, POSTA
We must congratulate Iraqi President Jalal Talabani for his visit because he dared to come to Turkey at such a time as this. Even though he bears the title of president of Iraq, what he did was not easy.
By MEHMET ALTAN, STAR
What do women want? This was the answer given in the full page Beymen ads that appeared yesterday on the last pages of all Turkish newspapers: They want to look to the future with hope.
By CEVDET AKÇALI, YENİ ŞAFAK
The primary duty of the Constitutional Court is to decide whether laws passed by Parliament conform to the Constitution. According to this job description, it would not be legal for the Constitutional Court to cancel any article of the Constitution.
By ERGUN BABAHAN, SABAH
There are millions of Kurdish citizens living in this land. It seems that these people are not content with the treatment afforded them by the Turkish Republic.
By FEHMİ KORU, YENİ ŞAFAK
The sharp statements over the past few days from the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) do not only reflect their discomfort over the content of the memorandum issued by the General Staff; both parties are also concerned with putting distance between themselves and the Turkish military.
By HASAN BÜLENT KAHRAMAN, SABAH
No matter who the real target of the recent CHP and MHP statements regarding the latest Turkish land operation into northern Iraq was, ultimately the General Staff took the statements personally, and in the “alarming” comments it issued in response, accused these two political parties of “being traitors.”
By EMİN PAZARCI, BUGÜN
What was it that Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt said?
By TAHA AKYOL, MİLLİYET
In Turkey there has not yet been a move beyond the official definition of “secularity” toward a view that encompasses a more democratic and liberal secularity.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani set foot in the Turkish capital yesterday on his first official visit to Turkey as Iraqi president.
By MUSTAFA ERDOĞAN, STAR
In recent times, the administration has been giving signals that it would like to “solve” the Kurdish problem through an effort to “AK Party-ize” the Kurdish community in Turkey.
By MEHMET BARLAS, SABAH
Hasn’t everyone who is both directly and indirectly involved in the subject already said everything there is to say on the question of the headscarf?
By İBRAHİM KARAGÜL, YENİ ŞAFAK
Let’s not get carried away with exaggerated diagnoses of the situation, but the entire Turkish nation is currently witnessing a fight the likes of which we have never seen before.
By TAHA AKYOL, MİLLİYET
Can the Turkish military’s General Staff not be criticized? Of course it can, but this is really not the question. To begin with, what we are seeing now is an important change in our political culture.
The row between the Turkish General Staff and opposition parties the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) over the sudden conclusion of a ground offensive into northern Iraq to hit bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been further inflamed after the General Staff accused the parties of “doing more harm than the terrorists” in the wake of their harsh criticism of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).
The ongoing speculation about the influence of US pressure in the timing of a withdrawal of Turkish troops from northern Iraq in the latest ground offensive against the bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has altered the balances in Turkish politics.
By ERGUN BABAHAN, SABAH
There already exists a strong group of opponents who readily resist any attempts to make Turkey undergo a dramatic democratic transformation.
By ESER KARAKAŞ, STAR
It is rare to see the Council of State make a right decision in its rulings. An example of such a rare case came recently when the Council of State decided that the content of obligatory religious courses is not consistent with the law.
By İSMET BERKAN, RADİKAL
A proposal offered by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and apparently adopted by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) to resolve the Kurdish question calls for a democratic confederation.
