November 10, 2014

A true Anatolian marvel

Şahin Alpay

My column in the Turkish-language Zaman daily turned 12 last week. The first column, published on Nov. 5, 2002 with the title “A victory for democracy,” celebrated the first election victory of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Imam Sytari praises Fethullah Gulen as a global thinker

Mufti of Shkodra Muhamed Sytari has been the guest of yesterday's "Bugajski Hour" in Albanian Screen where he made strong statements about various current issues.

The gravest-ever smear

Ekrem Dumanlı

The erstwhile political Islamists -- who would frequently utter the slogan "Every day is Ashura and everywhere is Karbala," referring to the tragic incident in Islamic history when the Prophet Muhammad's grandsons, Hasan and Husain, as well as those who accompanied them, were ambushed and slaughtered near Karbala in Iraq -- apparently stick today to the formula "Every day is a lie and everywhere is a smear."

Who benefits the most from the AKP-Gülen movement rift?

Ömer Taşpınar

Over the last 12 years, the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) chief accomplishment has been to establish the supremacy of Turkey's elected leaders over the military. The Turkish military had ousted four governments since 1960.

Efforts to accuse Hizmet movement of conspiracy failed, says lawyer

With the courts continuing to release police officers arrested in government-backed investigations, the lawyer of one of these officers says the court decisions have shown that the government is failing to demonstrate that the faith-based Hizmet movement was behind efforts to overthrow the government.

Gov’t effort to bring down bank would have international repercussions

MHP deputy Başesgioğlu criticized the government campaign aimed at bringing down publicly traded Bank Asya.

AK Party gov’t searches for scapegoat for stalled PKK talks

Having failed to make progress on the settlement process, which was supposed to pave the way for the disarming of Kurdish militants and address long-standing Kurdish demands, the Turkish government has now turned its attention to finding a scapegoat on which to place blame for the stalled talks ahead of national elections slated for June 2015.