Euro roundup: The EU won the Olympics, the World Cup, an Oscar … but still in pain

The EU won the Olympics, the World Cup…and now an Oscar by Open Europe blog team The EU won the 2006 and 2010 World Cups in football (at least according to Romani Prodi and Jean-Claude Trichet, so it has to be true). Interview with Olivier Roy on ‘Islam in Europe’ by Reflection Cafe New Perspectives … Read more

Today, Ergenekon Case loses its social legitimacy

Right now, police is still searching the office of Ahmet Şık, journalist and lecturer, which is right two offices away from mine. Ahmet Şık is someone we know, he is critical of Gülen movement and its possible links at police force but there is no way he is connected to Ergenekon gang. Now he is … Read more

Galip İsen’den bir makale: Kum üzerinde siyasetin kumdan kaleleri: Zoraki demokrasi olur mu?

Kum üzerinde siyasetin kumdan kaleleri: Zoraki demokrasi olur mu?

Defne Devrimi: A web campaign against the dominance of male columnists in Turkish press

WE DEMAND ANOTHER MEDIA Why hasn?t media changed at all, when everything else is transforming? Why is it forcing upon us the same-old bankrupt discourse one generation after the other: full of insults; executions; tirades; harassment; and a modernist feudalism? Why is it not democratizing? Where does the national media, chronically falling behind the rest … Read more