Turkey’s coup-surviving president and political leaders with the absence of one – who was not invited – came together with hundreds of thousands of people at Istanbul’s Yenikapı Square and on huge screens in the squares of Turkey’s remaining 80 provinces
There are probably other people who might have woken up to the real world and realized how terribly most of us were being held hostage with the veil of fear covering the nation since the night of July 15
There are concerns in Turkey but mostly abroad regarding the compliance of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government with supremacy of law, justice, norms and principles of democratic governance in what was presented by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the counter-coup against an attempted coup by a religious brotherhood
What does the intention to start flights from Turkey to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) from domestic terminals mean
Democratic politics is not just about having some ideas or uniting around some others’ ideas on ways of resolving the problems of a community
Obviously it was normal for the nationalist party leader of the country to declare “Turks have no friends but Turks.”
The Pakistani “brothers” of Turkey are in very serious condition nowadays. Ankara is pressing hard to convince Islamabad to take over a network of schools belonging to the Fethullah Gülen Islamist brotherhood
From the headline some people might think I decided to write some indecent stuff. No. This is an article deciphering an ill mentality of a minority of Greeks
If the colonels in Greece had not engineered it and if the Greek Cypriot hordes aspiring to unite the island with Greece undertook a coup against Archbishop Makarios on July 15, 1974, there would not have been a Turkish intervention five days later, on July 20, 1974