By this, I am talking about those young people who are almost spellbound by certain cults, communities or organizations into becoming robots. In these incidents, there is an “enthraller” and an “enthralled.”
It is pleasing that relations between Russia and Turkey are recovering. As a matter of fact, if only the plane crisis would have ended earlier
The millions of people who gathered for the “Democracy and Martyrs” rally on Aug. 7 at Istanbul’s Yenikapı Square, watched by all 81 provinces in the country, demonstrated that we have entered a new era
The confessions of the former prosecutor in the eastern province of Van, Fethat Sarıkaya, are a typical example of how the “conspiracy” mechanism functioned in the judiciary. He admitted that upon the Fethullah Gülen community’s demand, he fabricated an indictment to eliminate the chief of general staff of the time, Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt
Recent debates on the reinstallation of the death penalty are shedding light on many other issues
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inviting opposition leaders to the Beştepe Presidential Complex was a long-awaited picture; it felt good
With the justified rage felt against the loathsome coup, the masses said: “The death penalty should be reinstalled.” If there is a referendum held now, I am sure a vast majority would want the death penalty back and also oppose the granting of Turkish citizenship to Syrians
Coups indeed cause huge destruction, but the destruction of non-hierarchic coup attempts is more disastrous. This is the horrendous destruction the July 15 junta caused
The U.K. is not the only example, but one of the features of advanced democracies is that there is a functioning in-party democracy and there is no domination by the leader
