Some dictionaries translate the German word “schadenfreude” as “gloat,” but Germans say that does not quite give the exact meaning of the pleasure derived from the misfortune of others
No, this piece is not only about the Big Brothers (Abi in Turkish) and Big Sisters (Abla) of the secret network of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who is accused of being behind the failed coup of July 15 in Turkey; it is also about the failing justice system in the country
In a press conference before taking off for Pakistan on Nov. 16, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said he was for a system where the president could keep his (or her) position as the leader – or at least as a member of his or her party.
Like the town fool who thinks he is a traffic policeman, gesturing at passing cars that do not take him seriously as he has no real authority, the EU is losing its remaining political leverage on Turkey. That leverage has been fading for some time anyway.
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Nov. 11 that his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) and the opposition National Movement Party (MHP) would be drafting changes to the constitution for a shift to a presidential system – if God wills, he added.
Emre Taner ran the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) from 2005 to 2010
It was an election where the American voters did not choose who they wanted more as president, but who they disliked less
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu confirmed the speculation on Nov. 8 about his refusal to twice take the call of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Turkey and the U.S. agreed during a meeting in Ankara on Nov. 6 to work together on the Raqqa operation, in order to take the town that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been using as its headquarters in Syria, Turkish and American sources said on Nov. 7.
