Cemil Çiçek, a center right politician but with an intense nationalist tendency, who could cling to AKP’s rise and who always gets important positions the government reiterated recently a crude, primitive statement about PKK members: Most of them are not circumsion. So he implies PKK members are probably Armenians. He continues to deny Kurdish existence. Turkish government is beyond this vulgar political position. AKP should get rid of this politician…
‘Let the Deputy PM perform circumcisions on PKK members’ BDP head, says
Hurriyet Daily News – ?3 hours ago?
Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Çiçek has asserted that some members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or PKK, are collaborating Armenians on the grounds that …
Cease-fire or ?yes?? by MÜMTAZ?ERTÜRKÖNE
Last week I wrote that the Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) would declare a cease-fire. Columnists who closely monitor developments concerning the Kurdish issue, and in particular Cengiz Çandar, too, made the same prediction.
Leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu greets his supporters during a rally in Istanbul August 22, 2010. A referendum on a constitutional reform bill in Turkey will be held on September 12.? Read more »REUTERS/Osman Orsal
EMRE USLU – How to make peace last with the PKK
The Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) has declared a unilateral cease-fire until Sept. 20, and the Turkish and Kurdish public has expectations of extending it for a longer time and establishing mechanisms to sustain the peace. Unlike previous cease-fires, public expectations to achieve peace are high.
FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK – A politicized judicial institution: the HSYK
Turkey is having another one of its periodical crises as the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) makes one of its frequent moves to reassign judges and prosecutors overseeing high-profile criminal cases through its yearly appointment list.
Winds blow in favor of yes, but ?
by HASAN CEMAL MILLIYET
Nowadays, it seems that the wind is blowing in favor of ?yes? votes for the referendum in which government-sponsored reforms will be voted on Sept. 12.
?Circumstances force PKK toward peace; conditions ripe for a solution?
Oral Çalışlar, a journalist and writer, has said that the declaration of a cease-fire by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) should be seen as an opportunity to solve the Kurdish problem because circumstances are ripe for a solution.