Erkan's field diary

Nationalism-Neo Nationalism; 'Laicism-Militarism'

CENGİZ ÇANDAR

Families of Malatya massacre victims demand compensation

The families of German citizen Tilman Geske, Turkish citizens Necati Aydin and Uğur Yüksel, who were murdered in the offices of the Zirve Publishing House in the eastern town of Malatya on

Bahçeli sees 301 move as an 'assassination of Turkishness'

Turkey's ultra-nationalist party yesterday described the government's move to amend the controversial Article 301 of the penal code as an “assassination of Turkishness.”

Don’t touch juntas or gangs, or else you’ll burn! by MURAT YILMAZ

Reports documenting cases of wiretapping leaked out to the press during the Ergenekon operation show that the Ergenekon gang has been lobbying for the closure of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in order to relieve the pressure it has been under.

301 leap fails to clear jurists' bar

A government proposal to bring to culmination the years-long process of amending Article 301 of the Turkish penal code has been deemed unsatisfactory, even dangerous, by legal experts. While jurists disagreed about the president's role in launching proceedings under the

Britain commends AKP gov't amid closure case

Britain praised the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Monday amid the ongoing legal case to disband the party on grounds that it has become a focal point of anti-secular activities. “This

A short review of Western media on the latest developments in Turkey

By Ruslan Khaydarov

During the last week or so Western political eyes were closely following developments taking place in the Turkish political arena. The unanimous decision by the Constitutional Court to consider the case calling for closure of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as well as bans on the prime minister and president from party politics for a five-year term on the grounds of intending to impose Islamic law in the overwhelmingly Muslim country of 70 million has sent the country into turmoil, as the British Guardian wrote.

Reflections on the government’s Article 301 proposal

The government's proposal to amend Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), which makes it a crime to insult Turkish identity as well as state institutions, was finally signed by Parliament Speaker Köksal Toptan and forwarded to the parliamentary Justice Commission early this week.


Thousands of Turks protest AKP in Ankara

Yusuf Kanlı: Absurdities...

Some people must be either rather sadist enjoying to torture the nation, or fools enough to believe what they themselves concoct in the first place as “credible information…”There is definitely a misinformation frenzy or contamination of information coming out of Ankara. Speculations are abundant, though all based on the “fact” that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would be closed down by the Constitutional Court for various reasons varying from “the establishment want to get away with the AKP and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan” to “eight of the eleven members of the Constitutional Court are known to be definitely against Islamists and whatever the AKP say in its def

Mrs. Samsa, or the Turkish cockroach with a headscarf!

Orhan Kemal Cengiz

A glossary of Turkish political terms

BURAK BEKDİL

When inspired by conspiracy theories...

İlter TÜRKMEN

Kurdish question and party closure case

By MAHMUT ÖVÜR, SABAH

"Is there any relationship between the court case aimed at closing the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Kurdish problem?"

It's just that kind of country

By MURAT BELGE, RADİKAL

When it became clear what fate had befallen the poor Italian woman, the news made nearly every Turkish newspaper's top headline.