Erdoğan becomes 12th president after first public vote Recep Tayyip Erdoğan becomes Turkey’s first popularly elected president, taking 51.7 percent of the vote to win the polls in the first round Turkey’s Premier Is Proclaimed Winner of Presidential Election NYT > Turkey by By CEYLAN YEGINSU and SEBNEM ARSU Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking to retain power … Read more
As far as I could observe, not much irregularity was reported… Turkey’s Erdogan pitches for power Will Turkey’s controversial PM become its next president? Understanding Turkey’s election Turks are heading to the polls this weekend to vote for their first directly elected president. LIVE: Millions in Turkey head to polls Millions of Turkish citizens elect the next president … Read more
PM Targets Female Journalist Again Bianet :: English Journalist Amberin Zaman reacted PM Erdoğan calling her a “nasty woman”, saying that she was targeted. “Well, if not others, have I insulted Islam?” she asked in today’s article. New outcry as PM Erdoğan tells female journalist to ‘know your place’ PM Erdoğan faced new questions over his attitude … Read more
OSCE to offer recommendations to improve election system in Turkey Hurriyet Daily News OSCE will release its final report, which will also include recommendations for improving the election system in Turkey, said the head of the OSCE’s election observation team in Turkey Turkish PM Erdoğan takes aim at prosecutor Öz, HSYK Hurriyet Daily News PM Erdoğan has … Read more
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
Turkish deputy PM slams women ‘having vacation without husbands’ Bülent Arınç defends his criticism against ‘laughing women’ with a puzzling complaint about ‘pole climbers’ Spam messages reign in Turkish presidential hopefuls’ campaigns Turkey’s presidential hopefuls have continued campaigning by sending text messages to mobile phone users Turks Divided on Erdogan and the Country’s Direction pewglobal.org – Jul 30, 2:55 … 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
This is a place a little bit out of Istanbul. Meeting for Ramadhan Bayram was announced in a pro-ISIS site and meeting happened yesterday. News in Turkish here. Other news from Turkey Turkish PM says he won’t be a traditional president Confident that he will win presidential elections in the first round, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip … Read more
As the interrogation period ended, detainee police chiefs wanted to leave the court premises. However, police in uniform prevented them. Here comes the sit-in protest. It looks like AKP-led police & judiciary are not much knowledgeable about a trial process and they missed the deadline for the interrogation period. Of course one should not forget that some of … Read more
US Jewish group demands PM Erdoğan return award AJC, a prominent Jewish organization in the US, has asked Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan to return a courage award he received in 2004, following his response to the recent Gaza operations US urges fair, transparent probe into detained Turkish police chiefs Washington has again called for ‘fair, transparent and … Read more
Turkey’s Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek today tweeted the message above. Not that American media is in its best situation but Mr. Şimşek has the arrogance to question press freedom in US while his own country’s press freedom can even be compared to US’. Most of the time, authoritarian conservative critics rely on leftist critics or intellectual debates that … Read more
That’s how it works here in Turkey… They do not seem to know that both drinks belong to same company… Pro-AKP circles started a campaign to boycott Israeli products and their first product to boycott is Coca Cola. Although the latter is not an Israeli company, they believe that Coca Cola “helps” Israel. Thus comes the boycott. … Read more
Calls grow for boycott of Israeli goods in Turkey A number of professional associations have urged consumers to refrain from buying goods from a list of companies Normalization not possible after Gaza offensive, senior Turkish diplomat tells Israeli counterpart The Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu is also set to hold talks in Washington where he will … Read more
67 police officers detained in ‘parallel state’ probe in Turkey A total of 67 people were detained as part of two investigations conducted by the anti-terror unit, one into ‘espionage’ allegations and the other into the ‘illegal wiretapping’ PM Erdoğan’s outbursts ‘hurt Turkey’s standing in the world,’ Washington says ‘We certainly believe comments like these undercut Turkey’s … Read more
Gülen movement to be added to top-secret national security ‘Red Book’ The movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen will be added to Turkey’s top-secret national security document President Gül: I have never considered founding a new party Hurriyet Daily News Turkey’s illiberal turn Policy Brief (The European Council on Foreign Relations) ECFR/108, July 2014, 8 … Read more