“If previous audio recordings were bombs, this is the atomic bomb.” So read a message in Turkish (with my translation here) that I read on Twitter on Monday night.
I am on this beautiful Malaysian island, which is a popular tourist destination, for something a little less touristy: A talk on whether liberty is an Islamic value.
This is the second time I have visited this impressive gem of South East Asia. It is, as ever, hot, humid and green.
These days, an objective observer of the Turkish media, especially social media, can learn fascinating facts about two bitterly opposed powers:
Fatih Altaylı is an experienced Turkish journalist and the editor-in-chief of Habertürk, a mainstream newspaper which is among the five bestselling national dailies
James Madison, one of the founding fathers of the United States, had a good observation. “Of all the enemies to public liberty,” he noted, “war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.”
The current political battle in Turkey has come to staggering levels.
When I was a kid, Marxism was a big deal in Turkey. There were various communist groups, some of them violent, who were passionate about “the revolution” that would supposedly create a Turkish heaven on earth.
Last week, the head of TÜSIAD, the Turkish Businessmen and Industrialists Association, Muharrem Yılmaz, gave a keynote speech at the annual gathering of his organization.
