Why bother listening CHP?
There are certainly some domestic intelligence battles going on. These are not available to this humble blogger and academician. So from what I can only observe: why someone bothers CHP who is in shambles anyway?
One big conspiratorial statement: Some officials inside the party could be fantasizing for a coup. Well, they are notarious about it. They did it before anyway. They happily served the coup in 1960.
Hmmm i have to think about it more. Less conspiratorial statement could be CHP is bitching just after a huge government proposal on Southeast. There must be more discussion if this proposal will really work but CHP cannot cope with it anyway. So they play the victim.
How can CHP claim that this was ordered by AKP? What if this cannot be proven. Our glorious law official will sue CHP for the libel?
Rethinking the CHP’s bugging allegations
Allegations made by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) that the telephone of its secretary-general had been wiretapped by the state’s secret service and the content of conversations disclosed to the daily Vakit have been the subject of much discussion in Turkey. A number of writers have suggested approaching the issue from a different angle.Earlier on Wednesday, CHP leader Deniz Baykal claimed that security forces bugged Sav's office and serviced excepts of his conversations to Daily Vakit, a Turkish newspaper. The dialogue that took place between Sav and a governor last Friday, was published word by word in the headlines of a newspaper on Monday. But Serdar Arseven, the journalist of Daily Vakit, who prepared the news, said he reached the records of the talks from a source who he calls "a friend" from opposition CHP, also "thanked" the friend. CHP leader Baykal said they would carry the issue to the Parliament floor in their speeches and also give a censure motion about PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the General Assembly on the issue. MP Sav had angered many people in Turkey by saying "unfit remarks" about Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) to a person who wants to go to pilgrimage in Mecca, and requests his help.
Gov't proposes joint committee to investigate bugging incident
The government yesterday offered the Republican People's Party, or CHP, to establish a joint parliamentary commission to investigate the incident over the alleged tapping of the mainElectronic surveillance needs stricter control
Claims by the secretary general of the main opposition party that his office was bugged by security officials, who he says later leaked the information they acquired to Islamic daily Vakit,Watergate scenes in Ankara: Who bugged the CHP?
It was two weeks ago when the Constitutional Court's Vice President Osman Paksüt alleged he was being stalked, and yesterday a political party also denounced security officials for eavesdropping
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Turkey's opposition parties accuse AKP government of tapping
| "Turkey's opposition parties accuse AKP government of tapping Turkey's main opposition party CHP and the nationalist MHP raised their concerns over a tapping incident that local newspapers termed 'Turkish Watergate'. The opposition parties concerns were voiced after an Islamist newspaper published Tuesday, word-for-word, a conversation between CHP's number two person and a governor. The opposition leaders harshly criticized the government for 'hurting democratic values'. The CHP leader slammed the government and said the security forces tapped party offices, as the government vowed to investigate the claims. AKP Deputy Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat accused the CHP of casting aspersions over the ruling AKP, calling attention to the timing of the tapping claim as dark cloud over the AKP’s achievements, at a news conference in Ankara late on Wednesday. The prosecutor's office launched an investigation regarding the claims." |
Some Muslims are too conservative. So what?
Mustafa AKYOLA dilemma for Turkish secularism
"A dilemma for Turkish secularismBy James D. Lamond
Commentary by
Friday, May 30, 2008
Within the next couple of weeks a decision will be made by Turkey's Constitutional Court about the status of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leaders. The AKP has been accused by a chief prosecutor of violating the Turkish Republic's founding principle: secularism - introduced by the founder of the republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, to transform Turkey into a modern European state. The irony is that the AKP has proven more modern and European in outlook and policies than its critics, and may be thrown out of power despite this...................
Who's to blame? AKP or us...
Mehmet Ali BirandThe mother of all evils
Some say the May, 27 (1960) coup was good for Turkey. In reality, a crime has been committed, and despite the fact that laws exist clarifying how this crime should be punished, others are being encouraged to stop pursuing the guilty.Passive and Assertive Secularism
Excerpts from an essay by Ahmet Kuru on the SSRC blog (The Immanent Frame):
Last March, the Chief Public Prosecutor of Turkey’s High Court of Appeals opened a closure case against the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, which had received 47% of the votes in an 18-parties election eight months ago. The prosecutor asked the Constitutional Court not only for the closure of the party, but also for a ban on 71 leading politicians for five years, including Prime Minister Erdogan and President Gül. The indictment presents the case as if it is based on the AK Party’s support for the recent constitutional amendments that would lift the headscarf ban at universities.
Allegations on Dolmabahçe meeting taken to court
Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt said late Tuesday that he had never been subjected to a despicable insult, alluding to the allegations of a columnist regarding a deal between him and PrimeYusuf Kanlı: Power corrupts
The rather famous saying “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely…” reflects an also equally known and commonly used saying, “The one who holds the honey jar, licks his fingers…” or the prejudiced conviction in many societies that politicians are corrupt people who couldn't care less about the well-being of the nation but are only concerned of their own and their interest group's – be it the members of the family or business associates – interests. Of course not all politicians are corrupt and it is in no one's interest to harm politics across the board indiscriminately with such generalizations.It is obvious that the parliamentary democratic systemA pleasant coup story
There can be little doubt that in no other country in the world do people see their justice system directly lead coup attempts, join in debates as a political actor and express its clear support for the forced closure of political parties and the blocking of legal reforms.They knew neither imam nor teacher
Now that renowned sociologist Şerif Mardin has made a comparison of an imam and a teacher [using the imam and teacher as symbols of religion and the republic, respectively, Mardin noted that religious teachings in Turkey have overshadowed teachings of the official ideology of the Turkish Republic], you will see that many things will be written and voiced.Şerif Mardin and the misery of philosophy in Turkey
CÜNEYT ÜLSEVERFixing the Southeast
Restoring the Fertile Crescent to its legendary prosperity or putting the "mess" back into Mesopotamia, the people of Turkey's Southeast must be greeting the government's proposals to throw $20 billion into the development of their region with equal measure of cynicism and hope.Article | The Trouble With the Kurdish Manifesto
Kurdish institute's ad angers Turkey | Friday, May 23, 2008An advertisement by the Kurdish Institute of Paris and deputies of Turkey's pro-Kurdish party, or DTP, that appeared in Le Monde calling for an international mediator to help in solving the Kurdish problem sparked angry reaction in Turkey yesterday. “Listed as a terrorist organization by both the United States and the European Union and which puts certain conditions for ending terrorist activities, this group's efforts to regain ground and support it has lost in Turkey in other countries will be futile,” the Foreign Ministry said in a written statement yesterday.
Mavi Boncuk|
The Trouble With the Kurdish Manifesto.......
Law and economics by Eser Karakaş
A new field of study called "law and economics" is emerging in Western universities; this field has no relation to the laws of economics. 