He was the ever smiling, unusually handsome, late-20s star of Turkish cinema from the mid-1970s
The social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) announced on Sept. 14 that it had received some 30,000 complaints so far from people who believe they have been unfairly treated in the probes into Turkey’s bloody coup attempt of July 15
An incumbent Turkish minister recently told the following anecdote, asking not to be named for the sake of the family involved
The Turkish government appointed trustees to 28 municipalities on Sept. 11, replacing their elected mayors
Basri Aktepe, a former top officer of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was arrested on Sept. 7 in Ankara over having alleged links to Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-based Islamist preacher who is accused by the Turkish government of masterminding the bloody coup attempt of July 15
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Aug. 8 that the government would establish “crisis desks” in order to hear complaints about “unfair” detentions, suspensions and dismissals from office in the probes following the bloody failed coup attempt of July 15
There is a handy expression in Turkish. The chicken translation of it reads as “the wet burns together with the dry,” referring to wood burning in the fireplace. It basically means “the innocent suffer along with the guilty.”
President Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters on Sept. 6 while flying back from the G20 Summit in China that U.S. President Barack Obama had suggested “doing something together” in Syria, especially regarding Raqqa, the stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
The headline of pro-government Turkish newspaper Star’s Sept. 5 edition read, in English: “YPG is terrorist.”
