FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK – A politically motivated ruling
The Council of State and Co-Efficient Reform
The 8th Council Chamber of State has again ruled against reform that would make it easier for graduates from imam-hatip schools to enter universities. These schools are theological, but also have curriculum equivalent to that at Turkish public schools.
Following the infamous Feb. 28 process, which is considered by many Turkey’s “postmodern coup,” measures were put in place to curb the influence of imam-hatip, including the now contested the lower coefficient applied to the scores imam-hatip students receive on the Student Selection Examination (ÖSS). The lower coefficient places these students in the same field as those graduating from vocational schools, significantly reducing their chances of entering public universities.Turkey’s State Council retains university admissions system (SETimes.com)
BÜLENT KENEŞ – So it follows that Ergenekon is no myth
A small but influential group of people and their collaborators abroad have long refrained from believing that the Ergenekon terrorist organization — which has been indicted for planning to overthrow the democratically elected government through violence and coercion, render Parliament dysfunctional and create social chaos to lay the groundwork for a military takeover — really exists.
Today’s Zaman
Many Ergenekon terror organization suspects are known to have met frequently with the president of the Supreme Court of Appeals and its membersThousands of journalists probed over reports covering Ergenekon
Today’s Zaman
He said that so far, 4139 probes have been filed into journalists over Ergenekon, noting that 17 journalists have been convicted by various courts
FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK – Başbuğ?s change of attitude and deadlock over the initiative
ŞAHİN ALPAY – Stumbling blocks of constitutional reform in Turkey
Is the abolition of EMASYA enough?
The Protocol on Cooperation for Security and Public Order (EMASYA) is no longer in force. Soon, Article 35 of the Internal Service Law will become history.
EMRE USLU – The PKK?s 2010 strategy
INTERVIEW-Turkey’s latest Kurdish party vows cautious approach | Reuters
İHSAN YILMAZ – Honesty and MHP: Dispensing with Alparslan Türkeş
MIL 101 How to stage a military coup by ALİ MURAT YEL
I do not know of any school or college in the world that has included a course teaching the planning and strategies of a military coup in their curricula.ANDREW FINKEL – Sticks and stones
Osman Durmuş, a bull-headed member of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), is nobody?s favorite politician.
Mustafa Sarigul: A Progressive for Turkey?
from Turkish Politics in Action by Ragan Updegraff
What?s happening in the MHP these days…
“Fight!”
PHOTO from video footage shot by CNN Turk (More CNN Turk video of the confrontation can be accessed through the Hurriyet Daily News by clicking here)
The ?shoe-headscarf? equation
Here is how the Republican People?s Party (CHP) mayor of Antalya, Professor Mustafa Akaydın, voiced his opinion on the ?headscarf? shame that occurred at the Gülhane Military Academy of Medicine (GATA) in Ankara: ?Well, you can?t enter a mosque in shoes, so how could someone really expect to enter GATA wearing a headscarf??
FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK – Reasons of AK Party-MHP row
ÖMER TAŞPINAR – The root causes of Turkey?s Kurdish challenge
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