Weekly satirical magazine Gırgır’s cover: PM Erdoğan calls back the retired special-operation police forces, which is actually considered… Democratic Opening, Kurdish Opening etc are all gone. Now it is time to re-active the 90s’ special police forces. Turkish Military had demanded them to stop back in the late 90s as police forces would become a … Read more
Silah bırakmanın yolu güven, güvenin yolu siyaset Başbakan?ın, Silvan katliamı sonrasında verdiği sert mesajların en endişe vericisi BDP ile artık masaya oturulmayacağı vurgusuydu. Bu konuda söyleyecek fazla bir söz yok. Hükümetin çatışma çözümü konusunda nasıl dünyadan kopuk bir konumda olduğunun yeni bir kanıtı. Tutuklu BDP?liler sorununu ciddiye almayan Başbakan 13 Haziran?dan beri siyaseti devreden düşürüyor. … Read more
Oath-taking standoff over, charter is next from Hurriyet Dailynews by ANKARA- Hürriyet Daily News Parliament gears up to discuss a new constitution after opposition deputies reach agreement with the ruling party and take the oath of office We have agreed with Turkish officials to form peace council: Öcalan from Hurriyet Dailynews by ISTANBUL – Radikal … Read more
Turkish PM retains finance minister in new cabinet Markets hope the new government will take stronger measures, including fiscal tightening, to cool a runaway economy that expanded by 11 percent in the first quarter of 2011. Turkey’s current account deficit is seen in a danger zone. though Erdogan said Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul (L) greets … Read more
pro-Kurdish did not event attend the ceremony and met in Diyarbakır. Main opposition party, CHP MEPs decided not to take oath today… Turkey’s opposition lawmakers not to take oath during parliament’s swearing-in ceremony from Yahoo news ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s main opposition party said none of its newly elected lawmakers would take the oath in … Read more
Parliament of firsts to open with boycott by ANKARA Hürriyet Daily News For the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic, Parliament?s General Assembly is beginning a new legislative term with boycotts and missing members. The Kurdish problem is no joke by HDN The newborn political crisis, which was triggered by the decision … Read more
Clashes come to the very center of İstanbul. Pro-Kurdish deputies pepper-sprayed in Istanbul from Hurriyet Dailynews by ISTANBUL- From online dispatches Deputies protesting the stripping of independent candidate Hatip Dicle?s deputyship by the Supreme Election Board, of YGS, were sprayed with tear gas by police in Istanbul on Sunday. Supporters of Turkey’s Kurdish … Read more
Nasıl birkaç saat içinde yaygın bir iyimserlikten kapkara bir havaya giriverdik. Bunca yıldır alınan ve alınmayan hukukî kararlar sonucunda YSK?nın Hatip Dicle?nin vekilliğini düşürmesi memleketi ciddî bir krizin eşiğine getirdi bıraktı. Savaş lügatinden kaos, darbe, bomba benzetmeleri boşuna değil. Dicle?ye, her derde deva ?örgüt propagandası? suçuyla Anayasa?nın 76. maddesi uyarınca 1 yıldan fazla hüküm giymiş … Read more
Higher Election Committee (YSK), whose members are mostly made up from the remaining Kemalist establishment, had its play recently: “No, we are as bad as AKP. We cannot be behind in rights violations” (!), they seem to state… Pro-Kurdish demonstrators shout anti-government slogans during a protest against Turkey’s election board, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, June … Read more
Cengiz Aktar: Anamuhalefet BDP Türkiye?nin değişiminin iki ana taşıyıcısından biri siyasî İslâm, diğeri Kürt siyasetidir. Çünkü her ikisi de erken cumhuriyet tasavvurunun ?şekavet ve irtica? (bölücülük ve gericilik) yaftasıyla gayrimeşrulaştırdığı ve kamusal alandan tardettiği kitlelerin sesidirler. Bu karalisteye sesleri yok edilmiş olan gayrimüslimleri de dâhil etmek gerekir. AKP?nin başarıyla temsil ettiği mütedeyyin kitleler kendilerini kurtardı, … Read more
87% of the votes have been counted in Turkey. AKP: 50.8%, CHP: 25.5%, MHP: 13.3%, Independents: 6.1% let’s just if AKP can get 330 seats in order to make the new constitution alone. Istanbuls real Kurds vote BDP from Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about by Fréderike Geerdink ISTANBUL ? Metin (47) … Read more
And a stats of Turkish voters in previous elections can be found in as a graph in this article in Turkish… Turkish Elections 2011: The Blog View by Yigal Schleifer With the Turkish elections set for Sunday, I’ve asked Aengus Collins, the man behind the very intelligent and informative “Istanbul Notes” blog to answer some … Read more
Wall Street Journal likens Turkish PM Erdoğan to Malaysia’s Mahathir by ISTANBUL – Daily News with wires An editorial published by the The Wall Street Journal on Thursday has likened PM Erdoğan to former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad, who is known for his anti-Semitic rhetoric. Turkey’s EU minister rejects accusations of ‘autocratic tendency’ Today’s Zaman … Read more
Around one million citizens may have attended AKP’s Istanbul election rally. Here are some photos from Hürriyet. Boats carrying supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) sail through the Bosphorus in Istanbul June 4, 2011. Turkey will hold parliamentary elections on June 12. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Turkish PM targets Economist magazine, journalist Nuray Mert … 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