The decision by Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s former intelligence chief, to run for parliament as a candidate from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has stirred the political cauldron
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç is a veteran member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), who is caught between what reason tells him and what commitment to his party requires.
The brutal manner in which Muath al-Kasaesbeh, the Jordanian fighter pilot, was killed should act as a wakeup call for the Islamic world.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was reported saying, in his televised speech to the nation on Saturday, that Europe’s future “will not be written without Turkey.” One assumes he means that Turkey is an essential part of Europe and will remain so.
The report by Hürriyet’s İpek Yezdani yesterday, Jan. 28, shows that Turkey received quite a bit of heat during the U.N.’s “Universal Periodic Review” of its human rights record earlier this week.
The advent of Syriza and its young and energetic leader Alexis Tsipras is good news for Turks of my generation, as it must be for all left-leaning Europeans.
A government which says it is determined to fight corruption no matter what, and which is led by a prime minister who claims that “he would cut off the arm of his father’s son if he found him to be corrupt,” has missed a golden opportunity to put its money where its mouth is.
The two day Istanbul Forum organized by the Center for Strategic Communication (STRATIM), which kicked off on Monday with a large Turkish and international participation comprising some high caliber names, is providing an opportunity to gauge where Turkey is perceived to be heading under its present administration.
Many readers took exception to my giving links in my last piece to David Brooks of the New York Times, who wrote “I am not Charlie Hebdo,” and to Jordan Weismann of Slate magazine, who wrote “Charlie Hebdo is heroic and racist.”
