Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures to the audience after announcing his ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) election manifesto in Ankara April 16, 2011. Turkey will hold parliamentary elections on June 12. The AKP has pledged to strive for a stronger economy and has set goals for 2023, which marks the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
‘CHP grass roots wanted Ergenekon deputy candidates’
Today’s Zaman
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Gürsel Tekin has said his party’s grass roots are not uncomfortable with the nomination of suspects in the case of Ergenekon, a shadowy network that prosecutors say plotted to overthrow the government,
AK Party moving forward or going backward? by Markar Esayan
Today’s Zaman
I still believe the country is at an important threshold and the established order and its manifestations like Ergenekon and its cells in the bureaucracy and military have not been completely defeated. For this reason, I am nervously watching the
WikiLeaks Turkey (6): Spotlight on Abdullah Gül
Candidate lists show İstanbul will be heart of election race
Today’s Zaman
Deputy candidate lists recently submitted by political parties to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) have shown that İstanbul will be the heart of this year’s parliamentary elections, with party leaders and their top officials running in the elections
CHP?s candidate list sparks new crises
AK Party relies on its achievements, not candidates
Is parliamentary membership a career?
What will Europe say to a CHP united with Ergenekon?
Reflections on candidate lists
Demirel inspires the CHP
Kurtulmuş slams parties nominating Ergenekon suspects
Former Turkish president denies consultany role with CHP
Appealing to nationalist constituents, not CoE
Elections and beyond
CHP and center-right
Turkey’s AKP, CHP race to promise social improvements
THE CORRIDOR – CHP needing Kurdish votes to reach 30 percent target
Turkey’s CHP, MHP make bid to win center-right votes
Introducing the new Turkish Parliament
CHP leader touts Turkish party’s ‘revolutionary’ candidate list
Woman with scarf won?t make it to parliament
ISTANBUL ? Turkey?s governing party AKP put a woman with a headscarf on the list of candidates for the upcoming general elections. However the woman is a candidate in Antalya, where she stands no chance of being elected. This way the AKP avoids a fuss in parliament: the headscarf is unwelcome in the Turkish parliament
Necmettin Erbakan
The Daily Telegraph (London, UK)
Monday, April 10, 2011
Necmettin Erbakan, the former Turkish prime minister who died on February 27 aged 84, was his country?s most prominent Islamic politician, and an intellectual father to many key figures in the dominant party of the last decade, the incumbent AKP.
Ibrahim Tatlises: from hospital to politics (SETimes.com)
Election Slate: Only Muslim Men Need Apply
The parties have published their slates for the the June national elections. In AKP, Erdogan has consolidated his cadre, pushing out the remaining National View (Islamist) voices in favor of younger, educated men who have demonstrated their loyalty. Two of them are former heads of the party?s youth branches. One-fifth of the AKP?s 550 candidates are legal experts, in line with the government?s upcoming push to rewrite the constitution according to what the news article (here) called a more ?libertarian? approach. Libertarian has a very specific connotation in the US, referring to a rather radical belief in individual liberty, small government, and minimal regulation that puts the citizen almost off the grid. Kind of back to a largely fictional era of self-reliance, the Wild West where government never interfered (even in regulating pornography) or assisted people with things like subsidized mortgages and Medicare. A totally hands-off government. Somehow I find that hard to imagine in Turkey. What was the Turkish word they translated as ?libertarian??
Les partis turcs dévoilent leurs candidats pour les prochaines législatives
Agence France Presse, 11 avril 2011
Nicolas Cheviron
Les partis turcs ont transmis lundi à l?instance de contrôle des élections leurs listes de candidats pour les prochaines législatives, prévues le 12 juin, un scrutin pour lequel le parti islamo-conservateur au pouvoir part favori.
Why are people saying ?AK Party again??
Ergenekon suspects to affect the MHP not CHP
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Erdoğan?s choices
Turkey and its Kurds: South by south-east | The Economist
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