Monthly Archives: November 2014

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated that shopkeepers are the soldiers who defend their land and the police force who maintain the order and safety of the community, in a speech he gave on the same day that a group … Continue reading →

This one is a valuable analysis by Frederic Hof, with Atlantic Council: Ankara’s view of the importance of the survival of the Assad regime to the well-being of ISIL in Syria is correct. Its prescribed buffer zone is, in principle, … Continue reading →

A court-imposed blanket media ban on Tuesday on reporting about the work of a parliamentary commission established to investigate a major corruption scandal has sparked major outcry in Turkey, prompting the opposition and several media outlets to declare that they … Continue reading →

In seeking to ease their tense differences over Syria, Iraq, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Kurds, Turkey and the US seem to be intensifying their efforts to find some common ground. Prime Minister Ahmet … Continue reading →

Here is an extremely lucid, compelling analysis of the ordeal, leading into autocracy. Prof Ersin Kalaycioglu’s article is posted by Global Turkey in Europe / Istituto Affari Internazionali. Political life in Turkey seems to have reached another dead-end. The Turkish … Continue reading →

Pressure on the critical and independent segments of Turkish media amounts on daily basis, by new prosecutions and accreditation bans. Here are the latest developments in a compilation: Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul filed a criminal lawsuit against Harun … Continue reading →

Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan için yapılan ‘Kaç-Ak Saray’ hakkında kaçak olması, büyüklüğü ve maliyetine yönelik tartışmalar sürerken, ‘Kaç-Ak Saray’ın aylık elektrik giderinin ortalama 700 bin lira olarak hesaplanıyor. BirGün gazetesinden Uğur Koç’un haberine göre, Elektrik Mühendisleri Odası İstanbul Şube Yönetim Kurulu eski … Continue reading →

If the new “freakish” palace in Ankara did not prove it, I wonder what will. Soon after the launch, a lot of big shots at Turkey’s media conglomerates did know that the gigantic structure, found in a vast green area … Continue reading →

A journalist from the Cihan news agency was asked just on Monday to leave the hall where Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s wife, Sare Davutoğlu, was delivering a speech about women victimized by war. A group of private security guards … Continue reading →