Towards elections: Kılıçdaroğlu talks about “autonomy”, more on sex tapes… an election roundup

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Turkeys Prime Minister Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu, ...

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), shake hands during the 66th General Assembly of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), in Ankara May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Kılıçdaroğlu?s autonomy proposal

by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK
Main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who has long been criticized for failing to touch on Turkey?s Kurdish problem despite being of Kurdish origin, has begun making radical promises to Kurds ahead of the June 12 general elections.

Top Turkish parties trade places on Kurdish question

by ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
With less than three weeks to go until general elections, Turkey’s ruling and main opposition parties seem to have traded places on the Kurdish issue.

 

Turkeys Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses ...

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters during an election rally in Hakkari, southeastern Turkey, May 21, 2011. Erdogan’s ruling AK Party is expected to secure a third consecutive victory in the election, with opinion polls putting its level of support at around 45 percent. Turkey will hold parliamentary elections on June 12. REUTERS/Stringer

 

Online Sex Videos Force Resignations of Six Members of Turkish Opposition Party

by By SEBNEM ARSU
The sexually explicit videos were posted on a Web site that has cast itself as part of a breakaway ultranationalist group.

How AK Party, CHP approach the introduction of a new constitution
Today’s Zaman
Demonstrators say ?Evet? (Yes) to the government’s constitutional amendment package and demonstrate for a more democratic constitution in İstanbul’s Taksim area last year. After the June 12 elections Parliament’s main priority will be the drafting of a

FILE In this Dec. 13, 2009 file photo, members ...

FILE In this Dec. 13, 2009 file photo, members of the Nationalist Action Party, MHP, ‘Gray Wolves’ demonstrate in Ankara, Turkey. A slick smear campaign, a sex scandal, stunned a hardline MHP that was struggling for relevance as a self-declared guardian of Islamic values, pure Turkish identity and the sanctity of the family and forced the resignations of 10 lawmakers in the party. A mysterious group behind the videos urged the ouster of the MHP leadership, whose chief, Devlet Bahceli, served as deputy prime minister in a coalition government a decade ago and has shifted the once-extremist party toward the political mainstream. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

 

Turkish opposition politicians targeted in video smear campaign

from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

Grainy videos apparently showing politicians in liaisons with women are posted online weeks before general elections

The black-and-white videos are grainy. Sometimes they flicker. Yet the images, stark and often graphic, appear to show senior members of a Turkish opposition party in liaisons with women who are not their wives.

 

Sex Scandals Decimate MHP

by Jenny White

Assassination of MHP

by Taha Akyol MİLLİYET
Information technology has improved significantly, and everyone now has easy access to it. According to experts it is not too difficult to find ?bugs? in the market and film something with them.

Erdoğan?s election target

by Okay Gönensin VATAN
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not set very high targets in the previous elections his party took part in.

Zana doesn’t need an intermediary to explain herself

by Emine Kart
In March 1994 Leyla Zana and in July her colleagues Hatip Dicle, the late Orhan Doğan and Selim Sadak, all Kurdish members of Parliament, were stripped of their parliamentary immunity and arrested. In June 2004, after a decade-long campaign for their release, Zana, Dicle, Doğan and Sadak finally walked free from an Ankara courtroom. Their release was, according to many, an end to the most politically embarrassing and disturbing imprisonments of Turkey’s recent history.

MHP tapes serve the CHP

by MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE
It is obvious that scandalous footage targeting Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) administrators was recorded by a professional team.

Gov?t and video scandals

by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK
Just as was the case with an earlier scandal relating to former Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal, who was deposed from party leadership following the release of a video that allegedly showed him having an extramarital affair with a CHP deputy, calls have risen from the ranks of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) asking the government to find those behind recent video scandals that have rocked the party.

The PKK?s violence and the BDP?s threat

by MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE
The Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) are not conducting an election campaign but a war across the country.

 

CHP leader vows to end Turkey’s PKK conflict, poverty, corruption

from Hurriyet Dailynews
CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu will end all fighting in Turkey?s southeast, shorten military service and solve the problems of poverty and corruption if elected, he said Sunday.

 

Erdoğan and Öcalan at bull?s eye

by MARKAR ESAYAN
Some may be disturbed by the way I refer to these two names simultaneously in the title, but we are really in a grave situation and there is really the kind of danger I referred to in the headline.

 

Ergenekon-type politics

by MARKAR ESAYAN
Some of the most talked about topics on the Turkish agenda in recent days have been the dust that’s been stirred up in the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) following back-to-back video conspiracies and the resignations of 10 top level party directors and parliamentary candidates.

 

Turkey?s ?flawed? democracy — a watershed

by YAVUZ BAYDAR
Since the mid ?80s on, with many ups and downs, Turkey has remained a focal point of a massive transformation process. Every day that passes is an emphasis on its irreversible nature.

 

Politics of elections, politics of change

by İHSAN DAĞI
When compared to the last general elections, which took place in 2007, the June elections appear calm and normal. There is no controversy surrounding the future of the regime, secularism and the secular lifestyle being threatened by the ruling party or over Turkey becoming Islamized. Now the debates evolve around personal matters and the promises of political parties.

Accueil glacial pour Tayyip Erdogan à Hakkari ? comme d?habitude.

by anne

 

Ce samedi 21 mai, Recep Tayyip Erdogan est arrivé à Hakkari pour un meeting électoral qui débutait à 13 heures, heure locale. C?est une ville vide, dont tous les commerces ont baissé leurs volets en signe de protestation qui l?a accueilli. Ou plutôt qui a refusé de l? accueillir. Il est vrai que dans la ville kurde d? Hakkari le leader de l?AKP n?a jamais été reçu avec chaleur.

 

A Urfa c?est l?amour vache entre Recep Tayyip Erdogan et le clan kurde Izol.

from YOL (routes de Turquie et d’ailleurs) by anne

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La campagne électorale de Recep Tayyip Erdogan dans la région kurde n?est décidemment pas de tout repos. Et surtout elle lui réserve quelques surprises, comme l?a montré la journée du 21 mai. Alors que les médias annonçaient des violences assurées à Hakkari, la ville s?est contentée de se montrer glaciale. Par contre, c?est lors de son passage à  Urfa, une province à  la population kurde arabe et turque et bien plus  pro AKP, que ça a chauffé.

 

Sex-tapes: Organized crime

from Hurriyet Dailynews by YUSUF KANLI
In the mysterious tape scandal attack against the MHP, all eyes are following on the government despite their general denial.

MHP continues to remain under spotlight over videotape scandals

by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK
The latest video scandals at the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which led to the resignation of 10 top party politicians ahead of the critical June 12 general elections, have sparked extensive debate about the party and the way it responded to the crisis.

 

Giant New Projects To Transform Ankara

by Jenny White

Someone asked me just a couple of days ago why PM Erdogan was placing all his big projects in Istanbul. Well, get a load of this (click here and here for the details):

Erdogan introduced gigantic new projects for Ankara on Wednesday at a meeting held at the Ankara Chamber of Trade (ATO).

 

Erdoğan wants to be treated like the military by Orhan Kemal Cengiz

For a long time we had a press that provided the military and the deep state with total and absolute impunity. Their news coverage and comments were just a smoke screen that prevented us from seeing what kinds of sins were being committed by the deep state in Turkey.

Why is the AK Party winning?

by Eser Karakaş Star
It is possible to produce many answers to this question. We can talk about the charisma of the prime minister or the hard work of the AK Party administration or the special relations they have with voters.

Skyrocketing Turkey after the elections

by Hasan Cemal Milliyet
Turkey is seen as a success story in the Arab world. It is a big Islamic country that has managed to achieve democracy. It is on the path of EU membership and remains an ally of the United States.

Zana and independence

by Ahmet Altan Taraf
I think a speech delivered by Leyla Zana, an independent candidate backed by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), in a small village by the name of Kurdistan [in Diyarbakir province] will go down in history as one of the turning points in Turkish-Kurdish relations.

 

AKP should not repeat the secularists’ mistake

by HDN
The AKP will either repeat the mistakes of the past and craft a charter in line with its own view of the world, or it will take others on board in drafting a constitution.

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