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One other loser in elections: survey companies SEDAT ERGİN

One other loser in elections: survey companies

It is an unchanging topic in Turkey after every election, comparing the actual results with the predictions of pre-election public opinion polls.

August 14 2014
It has not been a fair election, but… SEDAT ERGİN

It has not been a fair election, but…

No, it was not a fair presidential election from many perspectives… First of all, one of the candidates, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, did not hesitate to make use of, in the widest sense, all state resources provided to him for his position as prime minister.

August 13 2014
Israel’s unforgivable irresponsibility toward the world SEDAT ERGİN

Israel’s unforgivable irresponsibility toward the world

This is yet another picture, similar to the ones we have been seeing in the newspapers since the first day of Israel’s attack on Gaza…

August 07 2014
Do Turkish taxpayers finance elections SEDAT ERGİN

Do Turkish taxpayers finance elections?

Erdoğan used the Prime Ministry’s official plane ANA when he went to Hatay as part of his presidential campaign last Sunday

July 22 2014
Erdoğan’s presidential target: Transforming society SEDAT ERGİN

Erdoğan’s presidential target: Transforming society

The most significant aspect of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “Presidential Vision Document,” publicized last week with the title, “On the Path to New Turkey,” is that he is defining the presidential elections to be held next month

July 18 2014
Though Haşim Kılıç counted on the Supreme Court judges… SEDAT ERGİN

Though Haşim Kılıç counted on the Supreme Court judges…

Head of the Constitutional Court Haşim Kılıç said, “I have known our colleagues in the Supreme Court of Appeals [Yargıtay] for years. They have been conducting their duties successfully.

June 24 2014
Censoring Mosul stories is unacceptable SEDAT ERGİN

Censoring Mosul stories is unacceptable

One of the recent irritating tendencies is that the restrictions imposed on the freedom of the press through court orders have spread to grave extent, somehow adopting a systematic characteristic.

June 23 2014
First results of the sectarian war in Iraq SEDAT ERGİN

First results of the sectarian war in Iraq

With the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) taking over a very wide geography from the north of Iraq towards its center, we can say that not only within Iraq

June 19 2014
Life’s new reality in Turkey: Refugees SEDAT ERGİN

Life’s new reality in Turkey: Refugees

The 'estimated' total number of refugees is pronounced as around 1,200,000 by a Turkish official. 220,000 are living in a total of 22 camps run by the state. The remaining live in several provinces

June 18 2014