Special Barroso coverage - II; Barroso welcomed as Google Groups banned now...
Although I have access right now, it is widely reported that Google Groups subdomain is banned (see ie. Google banned in Turkey!).
In the mean time, Hürriyet reports that Turkish military sends messages (through special Turkish political sign language) to Barroso that it was upset with Barroso's statement before his visit.
EU commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) and Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan review a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony in Ankara April 10, 2008. Barroso is in the Turkish capital for talks with top Turkish officials.
REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY)
EU commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (C) is welcomed by Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Foreign Minister Ali Babacan (L) at the entrance of Erdogan's office in Ankara April 10, 2008. Barroso is in the Turkish capital for talks with top Turkish officials.
REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY)
EU's Barroso Urges Turkey to Press Ahead With Reforms | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 10.04.2008
Top EU officials meet Turkish PM amid renewed reform efforts
rpp is worse than a rotting political carcass
just a short note for anybody anywhere who had hopes about the repuıblican peoples party of ever serving some use in turkey's future:the supposedly left wing party that did absolutely nothing to liberate any sector of the society, including labor, from the restraints of the military constitution of the 1982 coup d'etat, now reached the point where it prides itself on stopping the debates on the article 301 of the penal code that is universally recognized as a stumbling block before freedom of expression in the country.
Turkey’s turmoil, the EU’s reaction
by Katinka BaryschPolitical turmoil is nothing new in Turkey. After six years of unusual stability, tensions have mounted since early 2007. The army threatened to topple the AKP government in case it made Abdullah Gul president. Gul did become president, and the AKP emerged strengthened from an early election. Now the chief prosecutor has pushed a case in front of the constitutional court that threatens to ban the AKP because of its alleged anti-secular activities, most notably ending the ban on women wearing headscarves in universities.
Some more items related to Turkish politics....
The problem with 'modern' Turks is... they are outdated
Who is an Islamist? Who is a Muslim? And what about me?
Mustafa AKYOLFight over Secularism Dims Prospects: Turkish Politics Take an Economic Toll - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
Turkey's risk, Europe's role
With half of Turkey's political parties facing challenges in the Constitutional Court, the government needs to show renewed commitment to EU reforms, argue a diverse group of European scholars in an April commentary for Open Democracy.THE AKP SCRABBLES FOR AN ANTI-CLOSURE STRATEGYEurasia Daily Monitor By Gareth Jenkins
Turkish Bid to Ban Party Poses EU Risk, Solana Says (Update2)
Conspiracy theory
The general layout of the Ergenekon organization, as published by the Radikal newspaper this past weekend, has shown us that what we face in Ergenekon is a paramilitary group organized along the lines of military standards.Turbulent times ahead
On Monday, the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) highest body announced the party's strategy for the closure case opened against it.Is the high judiciary comfortable?
We are going through a coup period. This is a coup attempt at the hands of the high judiciary to invalidate results from the ballot box.PoliGazette » Considering the Fate of the AKP
Comments
Was it not the TSK which received 112 million, in the first q of 2008, in Euro's to train their staff in decode transcprition codes?
Posted by: Hans | April 10, 2008 06:04 PM
Seems like only the groups on the google domain will be banned next week, not the search page.
Posted by: Idil | April 11, 2008 11:07 AM