Prime Minister Erdoğan addresses a crowd in Konya during a rally for his election campaign. Todays Zaman Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Is ‘Papa’ still a father figure to Turks? Six months ago, an odd falling out occurred between Turkey‘s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan ? who is standing for re-election next Sunday ? and one of … Read more
The Economist has been AKP friendly for most of the time, this comes as a blow to AKP leadership.. Well in order to have more headcounts, they have lost so many friends that they will eventually regret… The Turkish election: Erdogan’s last hurrah (possibly) | The Economist Erdogan’s last hurrah (possibly) The election on June … Read more
AKP?nin ustalık dönemi epeyidir fiiliyatta, 13 Haziran?dan itibaren resmileşecek. Usta terzi AKP?nin Türkiye toplumuna biçtiği gömlek ise maalesef çok dar. Ama 1982 Anayasası?ndan kurtulmak için 30 yıldır uğraşan Türkiye?nin kendisine sunulan yeni bir deli gömleğine razı olacağı da çok şüpheli. Zira ustanın çıraklık döneminde biçip kestiği bol ve rahat gömleklere alıştı artık toplum. Toplum tanımına … Read more
Update 02:44 a.m. There are reports that security forces have made arrest at night in Hopa. Here is a video in which Metin Lokumcu can be seen… Increasingly tense AKP government triggers more and more police brutality towards protestors. Before PM Erdoğan’s election rally, protestors clashed with police. A retired teacher, Metin Lokumcu died of … Read more
Pls do check our project, first of all. Google offers election related search stats here. Turkey’s Kurds await political leaders’ messages in Diyarbakır by DİYARBAKIR – Hürriyet Daily News As tension flares up ahead of the June polls, pro-Kurdish groups are focusing their attention on the messages key politicians will deliver this week in Diyarbakır. … Read more
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 … Read more
AKP?nin sloganını fark etmişsinizdir: ?İstikrar sürsün, Türkiye büyüsün? ve kente uyarlanmış haliyle ?İstikrar sürsün İstanbul büyüsün?! İktisap haddini çoktan aşmış o zavallı azman İstanbul?a reva görülen, daha büyümek. Slogan tesadüf değil. Tüketimle yeni tanışan kitlelerin açgözlülüğünü ve hırsını iyi özetliyor. Ne demiş Gandi: ?Dünya her insanın ihtiyacını doyuracak kadar verir, ama her insanın açgözlülüğünü doyuracak … Read more
Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan greets his supporters during an election rally in Kastamonu, northern Turkey, May 4, 2011. Unidentified attackers threw an explosive device and opened fire on a bus carrying Turkish police, killing one officer, in northern Turkey near where Erdogan held an election rally earlier on Wednesday, broadcasters said. Erdogan had … Read more
Turkey and France were once great friends | Elif Shafak by Elif Shafak The tension between the two nations has made us forget they have more in common than populist politicians suggest It is no secret that little love is lost between French and Turkish politicians these days. French president Nicolas Sarkozy has made it … Read more
Kurds Renew Movement for Civil Rights in Turkey from NYT > Turkey by By LANDON THOMAS JR. Turkey?s Kurds have begun a fresh push to achieve true freedom of representation and the right to be educated in their mother tongue. What got into the High Election Board? by Fréderike Geerdink Now, the Kurdish … Read more
?Güneş Kral? olarak da anılan Fransa Kralı 14. Lui Avrupa tarihinde saltanatı en uzun sürmüş hükümdardır: Resmen 72 fiilen ise 54 sene! Başa geçtiğinde çocuk olduğundan krallığı bir müddet kral naibi Colbert yönetir. Kral Lui uzun saltanatı esnasında pek çok önemli iş yapmış yaptırmış bir hükümdardır. Ona atfedilen ?L?Etat C?est Moi? (Devlet Ben?im) sözünü edip … Read more
CHP nominated İlhan Cihaner as a MEP candidate from Denizli. PM Erdoğan promised something like building up two cities around Istanbul… 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. … Read more
Nabi Avcı is one of the candidates from AKP. Follow the link for the other candidates Mr. Avcı is my very first professor in my academic career. He was one of our faculty members and one of the most loved ones, before he became an advisor for PM Erdoğan. I wish the latter had listened … Read more
Even President Abdullah Gül and Bülent Arınç opposes the PM Erdoğan’s desire for the presidential system. I cannot know why he is so eager about that. Under normal conditions, his party already dominates the parliamentary system… Transsexual Running for Parliament from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White Photo from Radikal-Öykü Özen is running for parliament. She … Read more
Check out the blog of Necati Özkan, a political consultant, for more of these campaign posters. If they were women, they would probably be housewives, not politicians… Who’s calling Turkey a police state? | Cengiz Çandar by Cengiz Çandar Freedom of speech is part of the daily routine in Turkey. Western attacks on the Turkish … Read more