Christian-democrats prefer islamophobic populists from Social Europe Journal by Rene Cuperus In the Netherlands, like in Belgium, the formation of a new cabinet is underway. In these small, but ultracomplex coalition countries, it takes weeks and weeks to form governments. Cabinet formation is a giant Sudoku puzzle. What’s behind Sarkozy’s crackdown on the Roma? from … Read more
Bielefeld Workshop co-organized by ?Changing Turkey?: TURKEY-EU RELATIONS: AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE? by Changing Turkey We would like to invite you to our workshop/conference and the screening of the film ?Coffee Futures? by Dr. Zeynep Gursel from the University of Michigan. The film screening is sponsored by the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology and … Read more
PM Erdoğan with with a big group of well-known Turkish writers/authors in a breakfast to discuss the Democratic Initiative… News in Turkish here.
Elif Şafak along with Alev Alatlı, Gani Müjde, Elif Şafak, Mehmet Metiner, Kürşat Başar, Etyen Mahçupyan, Doğan Hızlan, Ahmet Turan Alkan, Mario Levi, Leyla İpekçi, İskender Pala, Hilmi Yavuz, Kürşat Başar, Ayşe Kulin, Refik Erduran were among the invited writers…
Well-known journalist-interviewer Neşe Düzel interviews former chief editor of Sabah, Ergun Babahan. It is in Turkish. Many notable journalists/columnists voluntarily or professionally worked with military and civil intelligence institutions in Turkey. Now some defend them in the name of press freedom. Such a low point for the Turkish press…