Erkan Toğuşlu*
The Kurdish issue is one of the major, complex issues that have dominated Turkish politics for the last two decades. During the bribery and corruption investigations and debates on the closure of exam preparatory schools (dershane) in Turkey, the Hizmet movement has been accused of manipulating these debates to block and slow the talks and negotiations between the government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its leader, Abdullah Öcalan.
January 24, 2014
Dr. Fevzi Bilgin: ‘Nobody in Washington is buying the Turkish government's conspiracy theories'
Aydoğan Vatandaş*
Since Turkey was hit by the biggest corruption scandal in its history just several months before major elections, all the signs indicate that there will be a very turbulent period ahead.
Since Turkey was hit by the biggest corruption scandal in its history just several months before major elections, all the signs indicate that there will be a very turbulent period ahead.
PM Erdoğan’s remarks on Hizmet stir animosity
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's remarks about the Hizmet movement that compared the movement with an aberrant terrorist assassin organization in history could well be considered hate speech, according to experts.
To save itself, Turkish govt stabs hard-won democracy
Mahir Zeynalov
THE Turkish government’s troubled entry into an electoral campaign this year calls into question the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s capability to lead his country to a consolidated democracy at a time when anti-democratic measures are being taken to cover up the highly publicized corruption scandal.
THE Turkish government’s troubled entry into an electoral campaign this year calls into question the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s capability to lead his country to a consolidated democracy at a time when anti-democratic measures are being taken to cover up the highly publicized corruption scandal.
"The United States needs to tell Turkey to change course"
Morton Abramowitz, Eric Edelman and Blaise Misztal*
Whatever his achievements over the past decade, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is destroying his country’s parlous democracy. That is a profound problem for Turks and Turkey’s Western allies. Staying silent, out of fear that speaking out would harm some short-term interests, risks Turkey’s longer-term stability.
Whatever his achievements over the past decade, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is destroying his country’s parlous democracy. That is a profound problem for Turks and Turkey’s Western allies. Staying silent, out of fear that speaking out would harm some short-term interests, risks Turkey’s longer-term stability.
Islamist vs. Islamic
Bülent Keneş
It has become crystal clear that we cannot understand the current state of Turkish politics and how it can evolve in future without understanding the relations people, social groups and political movements have established with Islam in Turkey. Therefore, we need to underline the distinguishing characteristics of two different approaches to Islam's relations with politics, society and the state.
It has become crystal clear that we cannot understand the current state of Turkish politics and how it can evolve in future without understanding the relations people, social groups and political movements have established with Islam in Turkey. Therefore, we need to underline the distinguishing characteristics of two different approaches to Islam's relations with politics, society and the state.
Conceptual contradictions when it comes to rhetoric about ‘parallel state'
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk*
In the wake of the Dec. 17 corruption operations that took place in Turkey, the government removed and changed such an extraordinarily high number of people from their positions in the police force, the justice system and the national education structure that these changes certainly would not have been possible in a state of law.
In the wake of the Dec. 17 corruption operations that took place in Turkey, the government removed and changed such an extraordinarily high number of people from their positions in the police force, the justice system and the national education structure that these changes certainly would not have been possible in a state of law.
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