Monthly Archives: September 2016

Is it fair to say, that the destiny of Turkey darkens by every that that passes? I know reading like this leave you with a sense of gloom but, by all accounts, we observe now the country’s story, which once … Continue reading →

Turkish President Erdoğan, it seems, will stop at nothing to assert his will on all matters, regardless of the level of frictions it causes with his friends and foes. Once more he was at his most extroverted mode, as described … Continue reading →

Who lies behind the bloody coup attempt? No matter how hard President Erdoğan tries, convincing the world does not seem easy. ”It is ‘FETO’ and that person who lives in Pennsylvania” he said in New York, where he is for … Continue reading →

Update: An arrest order was issued Thursday night on Ahmet Altan, who was released after almost two weeks in police custody. Another dark page in the post-coup Turkey was unfolded early Thursday morning, with the Kafkaesque trial of two prominent … Continue reading →

When it’s about Turkey, some things don’y change. Ever. They don’t change in their own ways. They keep coming back, in their own monstrous ways. This is what we now witness in the case of Ahmet and Mehmet Altan, two … Continue reading →

Is Turkey’s elite part of the problem, or the solution? This one is, definitely, part of the big question we are facing about the case of Turkey. It’s the one I’ve had time to think about, even more than before … Continue reading →

All the signs are, Turkey’s bleeding, unresolved Kurdish issue this time comes to a boiling point. Current emergency rule, put into effect July 21 – a week after the bloody coup attempt – had already from day one raised the … Continue reading →

Now, it is Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan’s turn. One after another, every democrat in Turkey who dissent, is locked up in jail. Everything in Turkey, these days, takes place out in the open. The post-coup crackdown has been widening … Continue reading →

  If you happen to be a journalist in Turkey, the price you pay for its defence, for insisted integrity can never be high enough. Your everyday pursuit of the truth is a stroll on a minefield, and even if … Continue reading →

Here is my piece for El Pais, on my arrest warrant and house search: Ligeramente aliviado porque, al menos, el registro se había llevado a cabo de forma correcta, llamé a mi esposa, que estaba en la costa del Egeo … Continue reading →