Opposition deputy slams choice of Julianne Moore to promote Turkey An opposition deputy has slammed the choice of a Hollywood star for ‘using a woman?s body to promote the country’ *************** Inquiétudes sur les émergents : la Turquie dévisse L?Opinion (France) 30 Jan 2014, p. 1 Pascal Airault et Cyrille Lachevre Les devises … Read more
Prosecutors who launched Turkey?s graft probe removed from case amid fresh purge 90 of the 192 prosecutors in Istanbul?s Çağlayan Courthouse were reassigned, including two prosecutors in charge of the graft probe launched on Dec. 17 Turkish PM Erdoğan accuses Gülen movement of trying to ?steal national will? Erdoğan has implicitly slammed … Read more
The UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has today unveiled the full winners list from last night?s 15th annual 2013 Internet Industry Awards, which saw the award for ?Best Superfast Broadband? go to London ISPHyperoptic and the gong for ?Best Consumer Fixed Broadband? being won by Sky Broadband…. Elsewhere Recep Erdogan (Turkish Prime Minister) bagged the infamous gong for Internet … Read more
Fethullah Gulen: Powerful but reclusive Turkish cleric Turkey’s ‘second most powerful man’ breaks his silence Gülen, Erdoğan?s new agenda item with the West Not but two months ago, sitting next to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan referred to Turkey?s EU membership bid ?Washington has no interest in … Read more
French president to meet widow of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink Hollande will conduct a visit to Turkey next week during which he will sit down with Rakel Dink Brussels unimpressed with Turkey’s internal struggles, sticks to principles Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan explained to the European Union?s top officials yesterday (21 January) … Read more
Turkish PM Erdoğan slams top business group head for probe warnings PM Erdoğan slammed TÜSİAD over ‘investors won’t come to such country’ statement Erdogan: Turkish strongman under corruption cloud The Nation … minister has gradually shifted from pragmatist tendencies to ideological ones, from team work to personal decisions, from democracy to authoritarianism, from thought-out … Read more
Turkish PM Erdoğan ?assures? EU he will respect rule of law PM Erdoğan ?gave assurances? during his first visit to Brussels since 2009, European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso says following a meeting Turkish government would show off if trucks were loaded with humanitarian aid to Syria: BDP leader If the trucks were … Read more
Turkish President Gül invites opposition leaders for meeting amid political crisis The invitation comes amid an ongoing political crisis fueled by a bill on the judiciary In Scandal, Turkey?s Leaders May Be Losing Their Tight Grip on News Media The New York Times (USA) Sunday, January 12, 2014, p. A 11 By Tim Arango … Read more
Syria peace hopes at Paris crossroads U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed for Paris to fresh Syria talks, hoping to press the fractured opposition to participate in upcoming peace talks Ammunition rounds seized in buses bound to Hatay on Turkish-Syrian border A large quantity of ammunition was seized in two trucks bound for the … Read more
Graft probe prosecutor claims he was ?threatened? by Turkish gov?t Öz says he was ‘threatened’ by two people sent by PM Erdoğan to stop the probe Turkey’s under-fire Erdogan sidles up to military Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears willing to mend fences with the once all-powerful army which he fought … Read more
Graft probes triggered fight within Turkish government Turkey has never seen such a fight within a government before. Here is the list of events since Jan. 6, as PM Erdoğan left Turkey for Japan on the evening of Jan. 5 Riza Sarraf, the mega-rich “Great Gatsby” of Turkey. Immigrant success story or a … Read more
Graft probe targets Turkey?s self-confidence: FM Davutoğlu Some try to ‘create a perception that the entire gov’t is embroiled in corruption,’ the FM says A FP roundup: EU says events in Turkey ’cause of concern’ The EU executive expressed concern about developments in Turkey where the government is embroiled in a massive graft scandal … Read more
Hundreds of Turkish police removed from posts Shakeup follows corruption investigation which saw detention of politicians’ sons and businesspeople close to government About 350 Turkish police officers have been removed from their posts in Ankara overnight, CNN Turk said, in the biggest single reported police shakeup since a corruption investigation rocked the government last … Read more
Police units in southeastern city perform ?moral profiling? of students? private lives Police followed students’ political and social activities as well as their relationships, a report said Islamic Scholar Gülen?s letter to Ankara intensifies graft case row A letter recently sent to President Abdullah Gül by Fethullah Gülen has intensified the already rifted relations … Read more
Turkey’s Democratic Institutions Besieged brookings.edu ? Peter W. Singer ? 1/3/14 ? In Foreign Policy magazine, John Hannah, a former national security advisor to Dick Cheney, suggests that ?the end? of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish prime minister, may ?suddenly be within the realm of Lawmakers’ Twitter frenzy angers Deputy PM Arınç Bülent Arınç … Read more