Feyza Çiğdem Tahmaz starts presenting at TRT Türk… News in Turkish here *************** Extreme measures: invoking moral order in Turkey While our fingers point at cohabitation and house sharing, and our minds are troubled by the imposition of a particular lifestyle, we tend to overlook a larger project of social restructuring. Recep Tayyip Erdogan … Read more
Turkey‘s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani (R) attend a ceremony with Erdogan’s wife Emine Erdogan in Diyarbakir November 16, 2013. The president of Iraqi Kurdistan called on Turkey’s Kurds to back a flagging peace process with Ankara on Saturday, making his first visit to southeastern Turkey in two decades … Read more
Pro-Gülen Zaman daily declared today some measures have not been seen even during coup d’etat days. AKP plans to close down private education institutions that are the primary recruitment centers for the momevent… ****************** In the mean time Erdoğan believes planting new trees is enough after damaging ecological systems… Nobody can compete with us … Read more
One of Erdoğan’s long lasting men Bülent Arınç is to retire.. News in Turkish here Diyarbakır meet key to Kurdish peace: PM Erdoğan A meeting with KRG leader Barzani in Diyarbakır will represent a historic day, PM Erdoğan says, but the BDP has said it shows traces of electioneering Gülen movement rules out … Read more
Turkey media crackdown: Who to blame? Turkish journalists accuse state of stifling dissent Another Deadly ?Joke? in Turkey?s Barracks One soldier on compulsory drafting has reportedly been killed while ?jokingly? pointing rifles with another fellow private in the southeastern district of Lice, Diyarbakır. Turkish opposition deputy calls for probe on illegal record claims Main opposition … Read more
Ruling AKP deputy report criticizes government handling of Gezi crisis Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was misinformed during the Gezi Park protests and the redevelopment project was not handled in a democratic way, İdris Bal says Protest politics and the ethical imagination Protest, like marriage, implies the possible start of something new. It means … Read more
Turkey?s Council of State Ignores ECHR Verdict Ignoring an ECHR verdict, Turkey?s Council of State confirmed a lower court ruling on the rejection of repartition demand in the case of Abdullah Yaşa – a 13 year old victim of police canisters during a demonstration in Diyarbakır in 2006. Twice an injustice (II) No doubt, the … Read more
PKK lideri Abdullah Öcalan‘ın sağık koşullarıyla ilgili taleplere dikkat çekmek için Amed’de (Diyarbakır) yürüyüş yapıldı. Öcalan’ın bağımsız bir sağlık heyeti tarafından ziyaret edilmesi talep edildi. fotoğraf via Polis yürüyüşü atılan sloganları ve taşınan pankartları ‘sebep’ göstererek engellemeye çalışsa da yürüyüş devam etti. Yürüyüşte PKK lideri Abdulla Öcalan’ın sağlığıyla ilgili taleplerin yanı sıra, Rojava için de … Read more
Diyarbakır‘da “Trans X Türkiye” atölyeleri Trans bireylerin yeni medyada ortamlarında kendilerini daha rahat ifade edebilmeleri için Diyarbakır’da çeşitli atölyeler düzenlenecek. “Trans X Türkiye” isimli internet portalı, Diyarbakır’da düzenleyeceği üç farklı atölyeyle trans bireylerin yeni medya ortamlarını daha rahat kullanabilmesini amaçlıyor. Atölyeler internet, sosyal medya ve video alanında yapılacak. “Trans X Türkiye”nedir? Çeşitli LGBT örgütlerinin ortaklaşa … Read more
?Come, Come, Whoever You Are.? As a Pluralist Movement Emerges from Gezi Park in Turkey After the Gezi Park occupation was dispersed, dozens of neighborhood forums popped up around Istanbul where people get together to discuss a variety of issues. I?ve been attending these neighborhood forums, which are are organized in an ?agora? format … Read more
Turkey artists demand an end to divisive language June 29, 2013 5:54 PM ANKARA (AFP) – Turkey’s artists, journalists and authors including Nobel laurate Orhan Pamuk on Saturday placed a full-page ad in several newspapers, calling on the government to end divisive language and stop polarising the country. Lice clashes are the Kurdish version of Gezi Park: … Read more
Solders open fire to villagers who protest construction of new military buildings in the predominantly Kurdish Lice, Diyarbakır. At least one dead, Salih Bedirxan, reported… The photo by @AdemArmannn A shot from the station nearby…
İHD, tutuklu hastalara özgürlük talep etti İnsan Hakları Derneği (İHD), tutuklu hastaların sağlık durumuyla ilgili eylemlere devam ediyor. Galatasaray Lisesi önünde dün yapılan eylemde tutuklu hasta Avni Uçar ve tüm hasta mahkumlara özgürlük talep edildi. Görsel kaynak: twitter.com/ihdcezaevi İHD’nin önceki hafta yaptığı açıklamada hapishanelerde 122?si ağırlaşmış, 108?i acil tedaviye ihtiyacı olan toplam 230 ağır olmak üzere … Read more
Turkey?s unruly rule of law from open Democracy News Analysis – by Firdevs Robinson After ten years of the aggressive, ?Islam and democracy? experiment, Turkey is increasingly being torn apart between contrasting world views and life styles. Writing about Turkey requires a conscious effort to avoid clichés. 57 students detained after clash at Istanbul … Read more
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