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Towards elections: Kılıçdaroğlu in Diyarbakır, Google’s site for Turkish elections and our Ushahidi based project continues…

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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

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

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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

Towards elections: PKK challenges Erdoğan’s angry rhetorics with more violence… A roundup…

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  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

Toward elections: YSK backs off, Kurdish candidates reinstated.

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  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

Once again, Judiciary mechanisms in Turkey become an obstacle for peace: YSK Disqualifies Pro-Kurdish Politicians From Parliamentary Election

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Kurdish protesters run away from tear gas during clashes with riot police in a street demonstration on April 19, 2011 in Istanbul after Turkey’s electoral board barred prominent Kurdish candidates from standing in upcoming elections. Turkish riot police fired teargas and water cannons during pitch battles with thousands of demonstrators infuriated by the ban. (AFP/Mustafa … Read more

Today in the election process. AKP’s election manifesto announced, CHP nominates another Ergenekon defendant. A roundup

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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

Towards elections: MEP candidate lists announced. A roundup

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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

Towards elections: What if current political leaders were women? A campaign to increase awareness for more women candidates…

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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

and an act of civil disobedience start in Diyarbakır…

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more photos and videos here. Sit-Down Strike of Kurdish People in Diyarbakır The Foreign Affairs Department of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party issued a press release on their sit-down strike in Diyarbakır, a Kurdish-majority city in south-eastern Turkey. What do Kurds want? by ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ As we saw with the recent Nevruz incidents, … Read more

Female Kurdish deputy slapping police officer…

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Of course, it is not nice. In a human sense. Nor the reactions are nice. The PM and others are not showing the same level of negative reaction to recently increasing police brutality. Moreover, citizens of this country witnessed several times police officers not behaving nice to deputies. In terms of deep state, bureacrats were … Read more

Towards elections: Probably the best election offer, Paid-for military service, rejected by AKP

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I am sure CHP is not very sincere about her proposal still its election promise was the closed to get rid of the mandatory military service for many. And not surprisingly, AKP  leadership, as the new leaders of Establishment, rejected the proposal outright… The CHP?s paid-for military proposal by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK Following its civil … Read more

New year mood in the campus, but Turkey still discusses bilingualism etc

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Erdoğan, BDP and bilingualism by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK The bilingual debate recently sparked by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has expanded, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now weighing in. After remaining silent for a time, Erdoğan has now strongly rejected opening the language issue to debate, saying that Turkey has only one … Read more

Debates around bilingualism and democratic autonomy continue

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which is actually great. Despite the fact that most of the content of the debates is hostile, aggressive and divisive. Still, this is how it works in Turkish politics. If it can even be debated, than we are on the right track:) a roundup: “Democratic Autonomy” Model Takes Shape from Bianet :: English The pro-Kurdish … Read more

Kılıçdaroğlu?s Kurdish initiative, good but hard to sustain within CHP…

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Kılıçdaroğlu in Diyarbakır … and there was also talk about a possible BDP-CHP alliance for the elections. Interestingly BDP officials seemed to be more enthusiastic for the alliance but nationalists sensibilities of CHP leaders prevented such an alliance in near times… Kılıçdaroğlu?s Kurdish initiative by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, … Read more

Richard Peres on headscarfed women’s next big challenge… and a politics roundup

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The next big challenge for women who wear headscarves: getting a job by Richard Peres

The recent signs that all of Turkey?s universities may open their gates and classrooms to women wearing headscarves are welcome and worthy of celebration.

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