For the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia, an emissary of Moscow has fallen prey to heinous terrorism – in the heart of Ankara.
It is not easy to be an intellectual in Turkey. It is even more difficult to be a diva. Like her or not, Demet Akbağ has become synonymous with extraordinarily good performance not only on the theater stage, but at every moment of her life
The supreme leader of Turkey declared at a routine congregation of village headmen at his extravagant palace that he had decided to declare a national mobilization against the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) gang and its extensions under various names, the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) zealots as well as the “Fethullah Terror Gang” (FETÖ) and the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) urban terrorist group and all other terrorist groups “whatever their
Disguised as a journalist, the provocateur was on the screens again. He was cheering a security operation against the legal offices and elected executives of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP).
When this article was written, the death toll of twin blasts in Istanbul was at 38 and the entire country was praying it would rise no higher.
It is not yet certain when the two people of Cyprus will be asked to go to separate simultaneous referenda to vote on an agreement uniting the divided island in a bi-zonal and bi-communal federation.
There was a half-day general strike on Monday in Northern Cyprus.
Since Mustafa Akıncı became president of Turkish Cyprus, and efforts to find a federal resolution to the Cyprus problem picked up momentum, each time the ship of talks hit the rocks, the Greek Cypriots managed to get something extra to refloat the vessel
Turkey was pulled into a nightmarish situation with the failed July 15 coup attempt.
