AHMET HAKAN

Erdoğan is everywhere, every day AHMET HAKAN

Erdoğan is everywhere, every day

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, out of the blue, without context and without relevance, started talking about women, their preferences, childbirth, how many children the almighty God wants them to have, and about “deficient” and “complete” women

June 07 2016
Notes on the new cabinet, changes, arrivals and departures AHMET HAKAN

Notes on the new cabinet, changes, arrivals and departures

NABİ AVCI: The most intellectual name in the cabinet. I have never understood why he was not made the Culture and Tourism Minister before, and was instead appointed to the Education Ministry

May 25 2016
Attention: AKP/MHP coalition on the way AHMET HAKAN

Attention: AKP/MHP coalition on the way

A statement by Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), is the talk of the day now

May 09 2016
Suicide bombers should not be publicized AHMET HAKAN

Suicide bombers should not be publicized

Thanks to our officials, every detail about suicide bombers is only publicized after they blow themselves up

March 21 2016
No need to be disappointed, dear president AHMET HAKAN

No need to be disappointed, dear president

Esteemed president, In your speech you delivered in the southwest town of Burdur, you said the Constitutional Court (AYM) had unlawfully announced the decision first and then days later announced its justification

March 13 2016
Polemic about women in the Ottoman harem AHMET HAKAN

Polemic about women in the Ottoman harem

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s wife, Emine Erdoğan, recently participated in a meeting with the theme “Ottoman sultan’s mothers who left their mark on history” and spoke afterward about the women living in the Ottoman harem

March 11 2016
Refugees, visas, negotiations and wishes AHMET HAKAN

Refugees, visas, negotiations and wishes

Being able to enter EU member countries without any visa requirements really would be a huge deal. It would be marvelous

March 10 2016
Let’s not discriminate between headscarved women AHMET HAKAN

Let’s not discriminate between headscarved women

It is obviously very meaningful that those who until yesterday had been talking about the grievances of “our headscarved sisters” are now treating those who have gathered in front of daily Zaman as mere “step-sisters”

March 06 2016
Why did Kurds not march to Sur AHMET HAKAN

Why did Kurds not march to Sur?

Kurds did not march to Diyarbakır’s Sur district. It was because a population does not march just because some people tell them to “march”

March 03 2016