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
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu entered the new year among mining workers underground. Turkish president seeks to calm Kurdish tensions | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 30.12.2010 Ending 2010 with debates on bilingualism, autonomy by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK Turkey is ending 2010 amidst debates on bilingualism and autonomy for Kurds. It has been a year during which Turkey?s … Read more
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
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