Peace for the moment, now comes the AKP’s Kurdish stunt…

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

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

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

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

Tatlıses poses with Erdoğan… And a social roundup

The first pose after the assassination attempt appeared yesterday: via Turkish singer shot in attack to be released from intensive care – Monsters and Critics Rape in Turkey: between incitement, complicity and silence, Sertaç Sehlikoğlu from open Democracy News Analysis – by Sertaç Sehlikoğlu The debates triggered by a 14-fold increase in violent crimes against … Read more

Melek Çetin: Dünyalılardan Tiskiniyorum-İbrahim Tatlıses suikasti ve paçalardan akan arabesk nefreti

  Dünyalılardan Tiskiniyorum- Tatlıses suikasti ve paçalardan akan arabesk nefreti İbrahim Tatlıses?in uğradığı silahlı saldırıdan sonra ?Keşke ölse. Kötüydü, mafyözdü, kroydu, ölmeyi hakediyo, n?olur ölsün? dileklerine, ?o mağaradan dişiyle tırnağıyla geldi şartsız bir saygıyı hakediyor? iddialarına, ?ölürse badem gözlü olucak ölmesin? endişelerine zerre şaşırmıyoruz. Ölüm, ağır sağlık sorunu ya da kaza haberlerine kayıtsız kalamayacağımız her … Read more

İbrahim Tatlıses shot, his condition still serious…

EFD contributors are planning to prepare more featured work on the Tatlıses case, I just put the news for the record… E.S. The violent times of a ?sweetvoiced? Turkish singer – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review Turkish singer shot in the head | Music | Entertainment | Toronto Sun Ibrahim Tatlises : Urfa sous … Read more