Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan casts his vote during a debate at parliament in Ankara April 19, 2010. The parliament in Turkey began debating changes to the constitution on Monday.? Read more » REUTERS/Umit Bektas
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…
Le Figaro (France), 6 avril 2010, p. 1
Propos recueillis à Istanbul par Étienne Mougeotte et Laure Marchand
I was expecting a clash btw Sarkozy and Erdoğan but that did not happen so far… Well we still have some to observe a scene:)
Any suggestions and comments are of course welcome. Here is a formula (!): Having one strong, charismatic leader (RTE), who had proved his administrative capacity as a mayor of Istanbul, who is surrounded by credible advisors (whom he listens to whenever he cares), who is surrounded by loyal, low profile and but politics savvy cabinet … Read more
I haven’t realized before that PM Erdoğan has a personal website. Hürriyet has a selection of his photos gotten from that website. I have chosen two here. And in the mean time, a particular judge released many of Ergenekon gang suspects, the same judge who had released other suspects before and and more on the constitutional reform move…
When he was a football player…
Three amigoes:)
After being informed of a possible assassination, PM Erdoğan was protected by an army of bodyguards during Last Friday’s prayer…
tekel 51 is a documentary about the 51th. day of tekel resistance ? before the day of general strike – it contains interviews with the resisters and quite good view of the squatted streets which turned to a village of tents.-
download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/367886567/tekel_51.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/367877652/tekel_51.part2.rar
This is from last week. PM Erdoğan could make to the covers of four most best selling weekly satire magazines after his attack on columnists…
The last time he was continuously reacting in a nationalist tone I remember was the pre-municipality elections period. That costed him dearly. He could not persuade nationalist Turks and he lost non-nationalist Turks and Kurds of all sorts…
Now he is back into his nationalist tone. He supports the policies of Union and Progress Party of late Ottoman period which is the prime suspect of Armenian massacres. Well done. He attacked a columnist Cengiz Çandar, who criticized him in these terms. What may be the only good point is that policy elites care for what columnists state. They would not care at all. But they care and want to shape their ideas. In the mean time, in a totally different angle I am also angry with Mr. Çandar because he had ditched me once. After he scheduled an interview for my dissertation research, he did not answer back my calls:)
PM Erdoğan wanted to state that Turkey is indeed tolerant and lets many Armenian citizens (I usually heard 50,000 but now 100,000 is uttered) work in Turkey “illegally”. However what he meant in his own way turns out to be a scandal that he won’t care much…. This threat was not about Armeanian-Turkish citizens…
PM Erdoğan makes himself into an indefensible position. He has to find a new target to release his anger. I have always been uncomfortable with his approach to media but I could tolerate it to a large extent. Because Turkish press made itself into an indefensible position by acting as the guardians of the ancien regime. But enough is enough. Erdoğan’s constant media bashing cannot be tolerated.
Turkish PM Erdoğan says media ‘misunderstood’ his remarks – Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review
