When he was sent to prison for reciting a poem, some said Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could not even be a muhtar (village head)
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently said, “What do you call the Kurdish issue; there is no Kurdish issue.” Immediately after he said this, political analysts presented their assumptions with their all-knowing attitude: “Hmm… He is playing to the nationalist votes before the elections.”
Adem Sözüer is a criminal law professor. He is the Dean of the School of Law at Istanbul University. He has always been on the side of rights and law, each and every time: During the Feb. 28 period, during the military tutelage period, and during the period when the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) was making legal reforms. He has always been on the side of law, on the side of rights
One would expect from that government an act that is in accordance with its rhetoric. In other words; an irrational action is expected, not a rational withdrawal plan.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said, “Fethullah Gülen was planning to stage a return like Khomeini.”
This is a picture of Egemen Bağış, one of the four ex-cabinet ministers facing graft charges who were acquitted at parliament on Jan. 20. He cast his own vote during the vote for for at the Supreme Council
Before cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad are drawn, we should tell the drawer that the significance we attribute to our prophet is enormous. We should tell them that we – let alone the drawing of a cartoon of our prophet – are even offended at drawing of a picture of him. We consider this insulting.
When it is the first time that one comes across a massacre committed on the behalf of Islam, then one can look for a conspiracy behind it saying, “Is it really Muslims who have committed this?”
If I were in the place of Egemen Bağış, Muammer Güler, Zafer Çağlayan and Erdoğan Bayraktar, you know, the four former Cabinet ministers… I would have done this
