Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane right on the Turkish-Syrian border, not too surprisingly, proved to be a major incident
Yesterday, at around 9 a.m. in the morning, Turkey downed a Russian fighter jet right at the Syrian border
There was a time when, in these colorful opinion pages of the Hürriyet Daily News, me and my column neighbor Burak Bekdil appeared as “sparring partners”
Last Friday’s terrorist attacks on Paris were brutal, cruel, and evil
In the past few weeks, Turkey has had two controversies relating to alcoholic beverages
The elections of Nov. 1 put a definitive end to the question some were asking lately, and perhaps a bit wishfully: Is the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the beginning of the end?
A few weeks before the elections of last Sunday, Nov. 1, I had written a piece in this column titled, “What to expect in the upcoming elections”
What happened in Turkey on Oct. 28 is something that should enter the Guinness Book of World Records, if it ever includes a chapter on “authoritarianism.”
In just four days, we Turks will go to the ballots again.
