For many, the Tuesday speeches of leaders as well as the language they use in public rallies could be categorized as hate crimes
In this column, on March 1, I wrote “the Constitutional Court has remained as the last castle of free justice in Turkey as a credible body in distributing justice”
“The time has come,” President Abdullah Gül told reporters last week, right after the local polls, lighting the flame of debates on the upcoming presidential elections.
Although the crisis between NATO and Russia over Ukraine is not on Turkey’s immediate agenda, the likely developments have the potential to drag the Turkish government into the row
Looking back on the election campaign and the topics that dominated the election period, it is hard to call the March 30 elections a local election.
More than 50 million Turks will cast their votes on Sunday, March 30, in the country’s most chaotic election ever, but unfortunately it will unlikely diffuse the political tension.
Transportation and Communication Minister Lütfi Elvan said late on Sunday that the Telecommunication Directorate (TİB) had on a number of occasions asked Twitter to remove content
It was during and immediately after last year’s Gezi protests that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) realized the importance of social media
Some two million Crimeans will vote on Sunday (March 16) in a referendum that will decide whether this strategically very important peninsula will secede from Ukraine
