The theater where Tuesday’s terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of three innocent people and wounded 15, happened is only 200 meters from the compound that holds the Prime Ministry, the Justice Ministry and the Education Ministry as well as a number of other state offices.
Spending nearly two weeks abroad – first in Arab Spring countries then in New York to attend the U.N. meetings – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returned home late Sunday.
Thanks to the meticulous work of Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek, progress on writing a new constitution will likely begin next week in Parliament, despite growing polarization between the government and opposition.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had important guests in two separate delegations late Oct. 17: a senior Hamas official met him at his residence in an unannounced meeting to arrange details of the trip of 10 Hamas prisoners, including the logistical needs of the group during their stay in Turkey.
The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) parliamentary group was bursting at the seams on Tuesday as dozens of party fellows, journalists and voters filled the hall to convey their condolences on the demise of Tenzile Erdoğan, mother of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Oct. 19’s terrorist attack in Hakkari’s Çukurca district that killed 24 troops and injured 18 has drastically changed the course of Turkey’s fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
“We demanded manpower, but those were human beings who came,” said famous Swiss-born German author Max Frisch decades ago when he was trying to describe the problem of integrating Turks into German society.
Turkey’s policy concerning Syria since earlier this year when the winds of change in the Arab world also spread to the country’s southern neighbor can be categorized into three main phases.
As expected by many, last week’s G-20 Summit failed to produce concrete steps to prevent the European debt crisis from further spreading. Overshadowed by political and economic turmoil in Greece and Italy, the summit that brought leaders of the world’s 20 most powerful countries together in Cannes demonstrated not only the unsustainability of today’s global economic order but also reflected the bleak future of the EU.
