Daily Archives: February 2, 2015

Kurdish roulette

There are four months left until the parliamentary elections in Turkey, and one of the many puzzling parts of the political game is what the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is up to. Yet, it is a key party whose … Continue reading

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Turkey’s countdown to autocracy: Parliament to begin discussing much-criticized ‘security package’

Turkish Parliament is to begin to discuss this week a domestic security bill that has been widely criticized as yet another step towards an authoritarian regime. Ignoring  claims by the opposition parties that the bill is against the Constitution, the … Continue reading

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