EFD Rights Watch: Turkey mass-convicted by ECHR…

ECHR Convicts Turkey Under 3 Different Charges  Bianet :: English In 3 different cases, the European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey of torture, ill-treatment and long term imprisonment, ordering the Turkish state to pay a sum of 30,900 euros as damages. Euro court fines Turkey 58,000 euros in five separate cases The European Court of Human … Read more

Erdoğan’s 24 April statement is surprising but not more than another act of oriental cunning

Erdoğan seems to have taken a softer stand on the Armenian Genocide issue. As Turkey’s impact on Washington seems to be at a low point, another aggressive statement by Erdoğan would lead to a permanent loss. After all domestic policies he leads, he is definitely not sincere but just a sinister tactician. What surprises audiences is that … Read more

Rare good news. 48 KCK suspects released… Dispatches from Turkey…

  Diyarbakır court release 48 KCK suspects in main case Hurriyet Daily News A Diyarbakır court has released 48 of 91 arrested suspects in the main case against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) , Controversy between Turkish government, top court rages on The controversy surrounding the Constitutional Court?s partial overturning of a judicial bill has continued, … Read more

“From model Middle East ‘strongman’ to tin-pot dictator… Turkey roundup

Turkey’s actions in Syria see PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan go from model Middle East ‘strongman’ to tin-pot dictator independent.co.uk ? Apr 10 ? Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to be one of Barack Obama’s cuddliest allies. Religious but secular, powerful but democratic, independent but a reliable Nato chum, he was the kind of guy the White … Read more

Turkey’s foreign policy: PM Erdoğan?s advisor suggests “Turkey does not need Europe and its extensions”…

Turkey does not need Europe and its extensions, PM Erdoğan?s advisor suggests Hurriyet Daily News Turkey does not need Europe and its ‘material-moral extensions,’ PM Erdoğan?s top adviser, Yiğit Bulut, said   Turkey, US dismiss Seymour Hersh report Hurriyet Daily News Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has dismissed an article by Seymour Hersh, which claimed … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Seçmen ?mazoşizminin? ekonomi politiği

Seçmen ?mazoşizminin? ekonomi politiği Ortalığa saçılmış rezilliğe rağmen AKP?nin seçimden birinci çıkacağı konusunda kanaat yaygın. Eğer seçim gününe kadar altın vuruşluk bir ifşaat gelmezse büyük ihtimalle de öyle olacak. Medyada, cemiyetlerde tepkisizliği anlamaya, anlatmaya yönelik bir dolu ?teori? ve tesbit serdediliyor. AKP?nin seçim galibiyetinin çapı ne olursa olsun bu arayış sürecek. 2010 referandumundaki %58 ve … Read more

Not only jailing journalists, Turkey tops Google content removal request list…EFD Rights Watch

Turkey tops Google content removal request list Government requests to remove content from Google continued to rise in the first half of this year   ******************** Five more released in Feb 28 trial, no arrested suspect left A Turkish court has released five more arrested suspects in the ongoing Feb 28 trial Switzerland Convicted of … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Kafkas cephesinde hareketlilik

Kafkas cephesinde hareketlilik    Dışişleri Bakanı perşembe günü Karadeniz Ekonomik İşbirliği Teşkilâtı?nın bir toplantısına Türkiye?yi temsilen katılmak üzere Erivan?a gidiyor. Normal şartta adî bir vaka sayılacak bu seyahat pekçok nedenden ötürü ayrı bir mana ifade ediyor. İki ülke arasında diplomatik ilişkilerin olmayışı, Türkiye?nin ?olmayan? Ermenistan politikasını Azerbaycan?a ihale etmiş olması, Ermeni Soykırımı?nın yüzüncü yılında hükümetin … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Ermeni Müslüman

Ermeni Müslüman   ?Bizim için 2015?in bugünden bir farkı yok, bugün neyse 2015 de bizim için odur. Bu konuyla ilgili korkacak bir şey yok. O gün dile getirilebilecek iddialar bugün de zaten var. Zaten ellerinde bir şey olsa, buyurun kestiğinizin belgesi deyip, önümüze koyarlardı, varsa buyursun getirsinler. Soykırım yapıldığına dair herhangi bir belge yok, olsaydı bunu getirmek … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: 24 Nisan nedir?

24 Nisan nedir?   Pek haberdar olduğumuz ya da olmak istediğimiz söylenemez, öyleyse hatırlayalım. İttihatçıların yönetimindeki Osmanlı devletinin, kendi Ermeni vatandaşının kökünü Anadolu?nun her köşesinden kazıyan kararının uygulamaya başlandığı kara gündür. Yarın da 98. yıldönümüdür. Kararın bedelleri üzerine teferruatlı bilgi ve çalışma pek yok. Örneğin gündemin bir numaralı maddesi olan Kürt meselesinde Kürt ayaklanmalarıyla Ermenilerin o … Read more

FM Davutoğlu insists that the Captured Turkish journalist is a really a journalist… a FP roundup…

FM Davutoğlu Defends Prohibition of Entry into Syrian Rebel Camp from Bianet :: English After security forces denied opposition deputies access into the Apaydın Camp that hosts fighters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the southern border province of Hatay, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu issued a statement defending the status of the camp … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Violence against Women, KCK Trial, ECHR condems Tear Gas

Turkey’s Kurdish leadership debates the definition of terrorism from FP Passport by Allison Good Members of Turkey’s Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) proposed a more decentralized Turkish government at a Brookings Institution panel on Tuesday. The KCK case theatre by Fréderike Geerdink The thing I remember most is the atmosphere in the court room. … Read more

still end of the year posts: Turkish foreign policy in 2011. fewer problems with neighbors, and fewer friends…

looks like Turkey’s best friends are in middle east while there are fewer friends in the rest of the world…  Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Hamas’ Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh pose before a meeting in Istanbul January 1, 2012. REUTERS/Kayhan Ozer/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Handout The Associated Press: Gaza’s Hamas premier visits Turkey … Read more