Unlike many previous accounts that are withheld, Fuat Avni does not violate users’ privacy but provides insights about the government. I could not verify yet, but I hear Twitter might actually try a legal process to undo the request. We will see… Twitter withholds account of whistleblower Fuat Avni in Turkey Today’s Zaman Twitter withheld access to the Twitter account … Read more
However, he is not a marginal figure. He represents the governing party that’s transforming Turkey… And by the way, he repeatedly makes similar statements, most remain in domestic sphere. But this laughing issue seems to have gone beyond Turkey… Sometimes he functions like a political troll. As the AKP is under pressure in both domestic politics (check … Read more
For the Ramadan Bayram, Turks are in a state of mobilization which leads to many traffic accidents… News in Turkish VIDEO: Four killed after public bus catches fire in Istanbul There people were killed when a public bus caught fire in Istanbul on July 27. Turkish PM Erdoğan labels opponents as ‘racists’ Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan has labelled … Read more
AKP’s Municipal aesthetics. Report: İstanbul faces ecological disaster due to airport construction Today’s Zaman The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government’s project to build a third airport in İstanbul, for which 70 ponds in the city are being emptied, Traffic nearly paralyzed outsideİstanbul before Eid ul-Fitr Today’s Zaman Traffic was nearly paralyzed … 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 Gezi Park episode is far from over Paradoxically, Gezi Park presented Erdoğan with a golden opportunity, one that could also have helped Turkish democracy part company from the tendency of powerful political parties to drift into populism-fuelled authoritarianism. For the global media what happened in Gezi Park throughout June is now old news. Not … Read more
via Some of my old time readers may know that although I am not a very religious person, I actually fast during Ramazan. This is a ritual that is definitely not my favorite. It is particularly difficult not because of 16 hours of not drinking, eating (and no sex) (hours actually change, it is the … Read more