Wall Street Journal likens Turkish PM Erdoğan to Malaysia’s Mahathir by ISTANBUL – Daily News with wires An editorial published by the The Wall Street Journal on Thursday has likened PM Erdoğan to former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad, who is known for his anti-Semitic rhetoric. Turkey’s EU minister rejects accusations of ‘autocratic tendency’ Today’s Zaman … Read more
Önümüzde bir seçim var. Bir çok kişi, 2002 den beri ilk def?a AKP?nin karşısında CHP?nin nisbî bir direnç gösterebileceği umudu ile Pazar günü Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu aşkına sandığa koşacak. Leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaoglu releases a dove during an election rally in Istanbul June 4, 2011. Turkey will hold parliamentary … Read more
Pls do check our project, first of all. Google offers election related search stats here. Turkey’s Kurds await political leaders’ messages in Diyarbakır by DİYARBAKIR – Hürriyet Daily News As tension flares up ahead of the June polls, pro-Kurdish groups are focusing their attention on the messages key politicians will deliver this week in Diyarbakır. … Read more
Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), shake hands during the 66th General Assembly of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), in Ankara May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas Kılıçdaroğlu?s autonomy proposal by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK Main opposition Republican People?s Party … Read more
A massive project. Much more imaginative than other parties’ election promises. AKP increasingly relies on grand projects reminding me older dam projects etc by center-right parties… Probably environmental unfriendly, and pro-corporate. (A friend of mine on real estate business already gave me tips about that). Cutting a New Bosphorus Through Istanbul by Jenny White Image … Read more
Check out the blog of Necati Özkan, a political consultant, for more of these campaign posters. If they were women, they would probably be housewives, not politicians… Who’s calling Turkey a police state? | Cengiz Çandar by Cengiz Çandar Freedom of speech is part of the daily routine in Turkey. Western attacks on the Turkish … Read more
I am sure CHP is not very sincere about her proposal still its election promise was the closed to get rid of the mandatory military service for many. And not surprisingly, AKP leadership, as the new leaders of Establishment, rejected the proposal outright… The CHP?s paid-for military proposal by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK Following its civil … Read more
A CHP mired in dirt by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK The Republican People?s Party (CHP), which has been going through turbulent times since the resignation of its former leader Deniz Baykal due to a video scandal, has been shaken once again with the revelations of an Odatv reporter who was recently detained as part of a … Read more
Even the main opposition accepts that AKP will lead the elections. The bets are on how much vote it will get… AKP’s current arrogancy is probably due to its being without any substantive alternatives…. Turkey’s general elections to be held on June 12 from Hurriyet Dailynews by ANKARA Daily News Parliament Bureau Parliament approved … Read more
Police clash with protesters in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011,as they try to stop a march on Parliament by workers protesting government-proposed legislation that they say will strip them of their rights. About ten thousands of workers, many of whom had traveled from across Turkey, had gathered in the capital Ankara and vowed to … Read more
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu entered the new year among mining workers underground. Turkish president seeks to calm Kurdish tensions | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 30.12.2010 Ending 2010 with debates on bilingualism, autonomy by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK Turkey is ending 2010 amidst debates on bilingualism and autonomy for Kurds. It has been a year during which Turkey?s … Read more
Turkey?s opaque system of political financing by istanbulnotes In my most recent post I highlighted the seeming over-reliance of Turkey?s political parties on state funding. But what of the role of private funding in Turkish politics? When we think about the corruption of the political process, it is usually private money we are talking about. … Read more
New CHP assembly members: From left: Faruk Loğoğlu, Sencer Ayata, Binnaz Toprak, Sezgin Tanrıluku. http://twitter.com/nuhyilmaz/statuses/16203490183348224 http://twitter.com/nuhyilmaz/statuses/16204432089817088 http://twitter.com/nuhyilmaz/statuses/16205397496958976 http://twitter.com/nuhyilmaz/statuses/16205773973487616 http://twitter.com/nuhyilmaz/statuses/16206902836858880 CHP?s soul-searching by YAVUZ BAYDAR The extraordinary congress of the Republican People?s Party (CHP) which will take place this weekend in Ankara is an event borne out of a political urge for the worn-out main opposition … Read more
Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan gives a speech during an Ashura procession in Istanbul December 16, 2010. Thousands of Shi’ite Muslims gathered in Istanbul’s Halkali district to commemorate the Ashura, where Shi’ite mourners beat themselves with steel-tipped flails or slash their bodies with knives to mark the death anniversary of Imam Hussein, a grandson of … Read more
Meeting with Öcalan?s lawyers? from Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Columnists by HÜSEYİN GÜLERCE Last Sunday, I had a meeting with jailed leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan?s lawyers in Yalova. Öcalan?s lawyers have been meeting with many writers for two years. PKK leader hints at alliance … Read more