[NEWS ANALYSIS] Too early for Col. Çiçek and his ilk to be happy
Today’s Zaman
However, claims that certain investigations and trials, in particular the probe into Ergenekon, a shadowy crime network that has alleged links within the .
Commentary: Hrant Dink Remembered as the Symbol of Human Rights
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
He further believes that Hrant would have been overjoyed witnessing Ergenekon’s ultra-nationalist members unmasked. Ergenekon is the organization with an
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The Embarrassment of the General Staff
from Bianet :: English
It is only just to seek a way other than a recourse to our “mind and conscience” regarding the true nature of our General Staff’s “Balyoz”. Our minds and consciences are still so very busy with the deep wounds torn open by the executions of our colleagues in the “Flag” campaign on 12 September – we cannot take on the job of relieving the conscience of our Armed Forces.
What a scenario!
A statement released by the General Staff on Thursday about a recently exposed military action plan with the code name ?Sledgehammer? has failed to eliminate questions regarding the plot, which includes a deliberate campaign of provocation in order to provide a pretext for a military coup.
Isolationist coup and the need for a JFK in Turkey
by ABDULLAH BOZKURT
The shocking revelation that came out with the latest comprehensive coup action plan, dubbed ?Sledgehammer,? exposed once again in more blunt terms how strong the anti-foreign sentiment was among certain factions within the Turkish military. They were trying to turn the clock backward in a globally integrated world that is increasingly interconnected and interdependent.
A week before the İpekçi murder
by BÜLENT KORUCU
We?re reading a news story from the March 24, 1979 issue of the Etraf newspaper.
Can a coup be staged? by MÜMTAZ?ER TÜRKÖNE
It is not possible for the military to seize power by staging a coup. The coup debates that have recently gained momentum are about facing the past, not about the possibility of a coup.The former editor-in-chief of the Hürriyet newspaper, Ertuğrul Özkök, had a fiery response for those who held him partially responsible for the murder of Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink three years ago.
The business in a nation full of ?internal enemies?
Maybe we need to distinguish the various nations of the world like this: those that have ?internal enemies,? and those that don?t.
Coup under the same sky
The so-called sledgehammer plan dates back to 2003. Seven years have elapsed. Do we have some sort of guarantee that the military is not today still making coup plans?
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