I had to write this piece before I knew the election results, but it may not matter much, unless the results turn out to be a total surprise
Nationalism, conservativism and right-wing politics in general have always been nativist in Turkey
Now I know how it feels to be hopeless! There is nothing left to be said: Turkey is fast heading toward destruction!
Oct. 10 is already registered as another black day in Turkish history, after two bomb blasts killed almost 100 men and women gathered to demonstrate in the name of peace and democracy
It is irony at its best, or utter hypocrisy in fact, to be critical of Russian meddling in Syria
Turkey missed a great opportunity for a very necessary “political restoration” after the June elections.
The last hundred years were a great parenthesis for Turkey. Last time, it was the First World War when the Muslim world was silenced by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire by colonial powers, which were new versions of the Crusaders
Human history has long provided texts for the justification of the powerful and the victorious and the criminalization of the weak and the defeated
When I expressed my concerns about the signs of a move from authoritarian rule to fascist political discourse in Turkey (in daily Cumhuriyet last week), I only wanted to underline the danger of ever increasing militarization and “statization” of politics and party in the country.
