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the 7th day. The President invited PM Erdoğan to calm down… One Trade Union decides for strike… #OccupyTurkey

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Democracy is not just about elections, says Turkish President Democracy is not just about elections, Turkish President Abdullah Gül said today Turkish PM gets into row with Reuters reporter over Taksim protests Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan argued today with Reuters reporter Birsen Altaylı. Turkish protesters turn a mosque into a sickroom in Istanbul Protesters used a … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Demirören haberi/ Yargıtay 9. Daire/ Yardım Toplama Kanun Tasarısı

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Demirören haberi   Sıradan bir vak?a değil. Haberdeki iddialarda sözü edilen işlerin benzerleri 20. yüzyıl başındaki ulus inşasıyla başlar. Gayrimüslim mallarının yağması vasıtasıyla gerçekleştirilen ulusal sermaye birikimidir bu.       Matthias Bjørnlund The 1914 cleansing of Aegean Greeks as a case of violent Turkification ya da ?Şiddet Yoluyla Türkleştirme Örneği Olarak Egeli Rumların 1914?te Temizlenmesi? başlıklı 2008 tarihli makalesinde, … Read more

Social fabric roundup: “One in every four marriages in Turkey involves child bride…Red Lipstick ban…Demand to have Alevi on ID

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One in every four marriages in Turkey involves child bride: NGO from Hurriyet Daily News Families are increasingly applying to courts to change the date of birth of their daughters.   From Church to Mosque to Museum Back to Mosque from NYT > Turkey by By ANDREW FINKEL Demands by Turkey?s religious right that former … Read more

Serhatcan Yurdam: “İzmir’de ‘Teröre Lanet’ Mitingi”

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Here Comes the Pain- Part II. Former military chiefs are questioned Today

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Oh God, even an ordinary sergeant feels and acts like a God in the barracks and now I wonder what these Chiefs feel. Falling from heaven? While Western accomplices like Gareth Jenkins (a great critique of Mr. Jenkins’ report –Between Fact And Fantasy:- that questions the Ergenekon Trial can be found here in Turkish) works hard to spread pro-Ergenekon viewpoints abroad, judiciary process continues and today we reach another top point:

Oramiral Özden ÖrnekOrgeneral Aytaç YalmanOrgeneral İbrahim Fırtına

Questioning of former military chiefs in Ergenekon trial begins

Hurriyet Daily News
The accusation said no hard evidence has been found to directly link the top commanders to the Ergenekon gang, but the coup journals show that the

Turkey braces for commander’s testimony in plot probe (AlertNet)

Source: Reuters By Thomas Grove ISTANBUL, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Three retired military commanders were expected to testify this weekend at an in-camera investigation into a plot to overthrow Turkey’s Islamist-inspired

there is too much pain for the Ergenekon gang. Arbitrarily I named part I here:) A huge roundup follows:

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Alleged civilian Ergenekon leader spotted in Amsterdam

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Bedrettin Dalan, who is claimed to be one of the highest leaders of Ergenekon gang and who is on the run, was spotted in Amsterdam as several dailies gave the news…
Ergenekon fugitive Dalan photographed in Amsterdam
Today’s Zaman
Former Mayor of istanbul Bedrettin Dalan, who is named as a suspect at large in the Ergenekon investigation, was spotted at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport .

Ruling through manipulation and provocation: The unwritten history of Turkey
Today’s Zaman
Later, its president, Sinan Aygün, was indicted in the Ergenekon trial, but no one paid any attention to the active campaign his organization was conducting

”ve ersele aleyhim tayran ebabil…” (Pul)

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An anarchist art case: juxtaposing Quranic verse with Turkey’s first female pilot, Sabiha Gökçen, who was one of the bombers over the Dersim rebels in a fictional stamp: “And send against them swarms of flying creatures,…” (Quran, 105/3)

First Kurdish signs by Diyarbakır municipality, a huge roundup on Ergenekon case etc follow:

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