Facebook continues to have a negative relationship with activist news service Ötekilerin Postası who provides activist news with a radical left and pro-Kurdish perpestive. Today, it announced from its Twitter account its Facebok page was closed again and it listed the not much reasonable reasons to close down its pages or cases of censorship… Because of … Read more
2 Kurdish protesters shot dead in Gever, Yüksekova, Hakkari by special forces. Let’s see how this murder is handled by government… Later, the hospital was pepper-gassed and attacked by special police forces who wanted to get the bodies of protesters….. BDP, HDP express indignation over protesters? death in Yüksekova Both the BDP and its recently founded … Read more
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
Pro-Gülen Zaman daily declared today some measures have not been seen even during coup d’etat days. AKP plans to close down private education institutions that are the primary recruitment centers for the momevent… ****************** In the mean time Erdoğan believes planting new trees is enough after damaging ecological systems… Nobody can compete with us … Read more
One of Erdoğan’s long lasting men Bülent Arınç is to retire.. News in Turkish here Diyarbakır meet key to Kurdish peace: PM Erdoğan A meeting with KRG leader Barzani in Diyarbakır will represent a historic day, PM Erdoğan says, but the BDP has said it shows traces of electioneering Gülen movement rules out … Read more
Ahmet Kaya Posthumously Receives Presidency Prize Ahmet Kaya, a protest Kurdish singer who died in 2000, was selected to receive the 2013 Grand Presidency Prize in Culture and Arts. Turkish President Gül honors once defamed Kurdish singer Ahmet Kaya Hounded out by nationalists 13 years ago, Kurdish folk singer Ahmet Kaya posthumously receives recognition for … Read more
Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci (R) and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, inspect an honour guard in Pristina’s main airport in Slatina on Oct 23. AP Photo Serb president wants Turkey’s apology on Kosovo Serbia’s president says he won’t take part in a Balkan initiative with Turkey in protest over reported remarks by Turkey’s … Read more
HDK’nın 3. kongresinde umuda yolculuk mesajı Halkların Demokratik Kongresi (HDK) 3. Genel Kurul toplantısı bugün Ankara’da yapıldı. Kongreyle ilgili gelişmeleri buradan takip edebilirsiniz. Fotoğraf via @ahmetsaymadi [View the story “HDK’nın 3. kongresinde \”umuda yolculuk\” mesajı” on Storify]
Part 2 Beyond the Gezi Park protests Back at the Gezi protests, it was clear AKP misread what triggered the country- wide non-violent demonstrations. The ruling party not only misread the causes of the unrest but also the protesters themselves. It was easier for the ruling power to blame the cause of these protests … Read more
Erdoğan’s split personality: the reformer v the tyrant The Turkish prime minister revealed the iron fist in his velvet glove this summer, but of which is his true character built? All summer long, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in a very bad mood. The public squares and parks of Istanbul and several other Turkish cities … Read more
Turkey will probably never be EU member, Minister Bağış says Bağış has said Turkey will probably never become a member of the EU because of ‘prejudiced’ attitudes ********************** Turkish investors urge foreign policy revision The head of TÜSİAD calls for Ankara to return to being an honest broker in the wider region in … Read more
US Senate panel approves use of force against Syria The Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote paves the way for full Senate debate Anti-war demonstrators in silent protest during Kerry’s address before US House committee Arab nations have offered to help pay for any U.S. military intervention in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers while … Read more
İstanbul, Taksim‘de toplanan eylemciler Rojava‘daki katliama tepki göstermek için oturma eylemi yaptı. “Antikapitalist Müslümanlar” topluluğundan İhsan Eliaçık , Rojava’da katledilenler için gıyabi cenaze namazı kıldırdı. Fotoğraf via [View the story “Rojava’daki katliama tepki eylemi” on Storify]
Turkey says it won’t tolerate ‘de facto’ Kurdish entity in Syria Turkey’s deputy prime minister says his country supports Syria’s territorial integrity and won’t tolerate the creation of a “de facto” Syrian Kurdish entity on its frontiers. Turkey?s Kurdish phobia resurfaces A Turkey that was flying high at the time with ambitious plans for the … Read more
This is Turkey’s public news agency, AA’s Twitter account. In one hour, it sent 5 Tweets about the anti-CNN protest in New York. In Turkish version, it said masses attended the protest…. via @GurbetName Here is the actual photo of the protest. 5 of the same family seem to have attended the event: via @GurbetName … Read more