AHMET HAKAN

Terrorism has never been so watered down AHMET HAKAN

Terrorism has never been so watered down

The journalist interviewed a person. The interviewed person joined a terror organization months later. Now, they are calling the journalist a “terrorist.”

September 18 2015
Seven simple and plain questions from the Turkish public AHMET HAKAN

Seven simple and plain questions from the Turkish public

Question one is about the fact that there were no funerals for killed security forces before the June election. What happened for funerals to start again after the election?

September 14 2015
Opinion polls show a rise for AKP, they believe... AHMET HAKAN

Opinion polls show a rise for AKP, they believe...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu recently stated: “We are going up in the opinion polls … We are doing everything we can for our votes to increase and to achieve one-party rule.”

September 11 2015
Banditry reigning in newspaper columns AHMET HAKAN

Banditry reigning in newspaper columns

A person named Cem Küçük wrote this in his column on Sept. 9 about me: “If we wanted to, we can crush you like a fly. We have been merciful to you up to this day and because of that you can still survive.”

September 10 2015
Why do we bash the West but not Saudi Arabia AHMET HAKAN

Why do we bash the West but not Saudi Arabia?

We are talking about Saudi Arabia. It is a country that is filthy rich and sends its petro dollars to U.S. banks

September 06 2015
When those silent to injustice become the target of injustice AHMET HAKAN

When those silent to injustice become the target of injustice

In the heydays of the cooperation between the government and the brotherhood (Gülenists); when police used to hold operations at five o’clock in the morning in households; what did dailies Bugün, Zaman, television channel Samanyolu, and writers Ekrem Dumanlı and Ahmet Altan used to say?

September 03 2015
Ten things about the Tuğrul Türkeş incident AHMET HAKAN

Ten things about the Tuğrul Türkeş incident

One: Let’s confess it, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored tremendously against Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), when Tuğrul Türkeş, who is the son of the party’s founding leader, accepted the ministerial post offered to him, defying his party’s official stance. This cannot be easily digested. Bahçeli received a serious kick

August 28 2015
An open letter to the soldier mourning his brother AHMET HAKAN

An open letter to the soldier mourning his brother

Dear lieutenant colonel Mehmet Bey, When you were holding the Turkish flag-wrapped coffin of your soldier brother, crying “Ali, Ali…” I felt your pain deep inside of me,

August 24 2015
Votes and funerals AHMET HAKAN

Votes and funerals

A reader of my column has asked: Tayyip Erdoğan used to get votes because the coffins of martyrs were not in the news. Now it is said he will gain votes because the coffins of martyrs are once again in the public eye. How is this so?

August 21 2015