CHP: self-humiliator
Now it seems that there may be not any intelligence battle at this context. CHP general secretary Mr. Sav forgets to stop the call made by Vakit correspondent and the latter records his call that was taking place with a governor... There are also some Facebook groups that teases him. Let's teach him how to use cell phone...
Red: No. Green: Yes. Red: No. Green: Yes. Red: No. Green: Yes. Red: No. Green: Yes....
Republican Geriatrics Party versus neo-imams
I have been planning to write on the discussions surrounding our great political sociologist Şerif Mardin's recent statements about how the republican elite and ideology has failed to fill the moral gap in the public sphere supposedly left by Islam's forced departure.Declaration battles
Just a week ago, you read in this column that Turkey's destiny is in the hands of 11 judges. However, while talking about Turkey, one should make careful deductions, because every single day brings with it new and important developments.48 years after the May 27 coup by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE
The May 27 occupies a central place in Turkish political history. Forty-eight years ago, in 1960, a clandestine military organization that included 38 officers seized political power after toppling the government. What happened was a coup d'état. Yusuf Kanlı: A Turkish Watergate?
Some fools think that the eavesdropping on the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) was as important as the famous Watergate scandal that siphoned Richard Nixon and his all powerful men in the U.S. administration and that this “scandal” in Turkey could perhaps “siphon” the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan down the drain, pardon, out of active politics. Sorry, I did not mean to insult the fools in our population. Even fools cannot have such wild dreams in this country of “Let the snake that did not touch me live 1,000 years” mentality. Was it not this population almost 47 percent of which voted for a consolidated new term in[CROSS READER] Wiretapping discussions continue
Discussions concerning recent allegations made by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) that the telephone of its secretary-general had been wiretapped by one or more of the state’s secret service agencies persisted in the media yesterday.Fifty ways to listen to opposition
Murat YETKİNThe New Face of Islam
A critique of radicalism is building within the heart of the Muslim world.....Intellectually and theologically, a lot of the most ambitious work is being done by a group of scholars based in Ankara, Turkey, who expect to publish new editions of the Hadith before the end of the year. They have collected all 170,000 known narrations of the Prophet's sayings."
Yet another threat to the Turkish Republic: Pacifism
Mustafa AKYOL“American” Secularism is Not “Hands-Off”
The AK Party has often referred to their style of secularism as “the American system”, by which they mean that the government keeps an equal distance from all religions, or a “hands-off” policy. This is contrasted to the Turkish state’s secularism (laiklik), which authorizes the state to control religious public institutions and religious practice in the public arena. Confusion arises because the term laiklik is always translated as “secularism”, making no distinction (prompting the resort to terms like “the American system”).
