The president made a confession during the recent “Justice Council” meeting. “This is a piece of self-criticism. Unfortunately, we lost [control of] The National Judicial Network [UYAP], a very important mechanism, to the Fetöists, who used it mercilessly and sinisterly to achieve their merciless aims. Through it they unleashed the greatest tyranny.”
Turkish Cypriots are busy forming a government. The National Unity Party (UBP) produced 21 seats. The newly-established People’s Party (HP) won nine seats.
The Turkish Cypriot people spoke laud at the parliamentary elections on Jan. 7 for the defense of their state.
Northern Cyprus will hold elections this Sunday to appoint members to its 50-seat Republican Assembly. Many public opinion polls have been conducted in recent weeks. All of them signal a serious frustration with politics and politicians among the Turkish Cypriot people.
The amount of “West-phobia” in Iran could well contribute to the people’s willingness to find a Western plot behind everything that happens in their neighborhood.
Were the Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 a product of “foreign powers” or “the mastermind,” aiming to topple then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
Justice should never be left to individuals or segments of a society. It should not be left to the president, government, ruling party or parliamentary majority either, even though penal codes and other laws regulating how justice should prevail are best made in parliaments under the guidance of universal norms.
What will U.S. President Donald Trump do now against those 128 countries that defied all the blackmail, insults and degrading remarks they faced from the White House and U.S. permanent delegate to the U.N. Nikki Haley after voting to denounce the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?
Colleagues covering the New York trial busting Halkbank deputy Director General Mehmet Hakan Atilla for helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions posed proudly for cameras as the trial entered the jury deliberations phase. Irrespective of the outcome, the case will obviously constitute a landmark in Turkish-American relations, like President Lyndon B. Johnson’s June 5, 1964 letter to Turkey or the 1975 arms embargo.
