Category Archives: CHP

Defining human rights as his enemy, Erdoğan is now at a point of no return

Posted on July 22, 2017 by yavuzbaydar

Perhaps it is my fault. I can no longer understand the naivete – some would call it wishful thinking – of the people I know, that no matter how badly the current ruling factions of Turkey under the banner of … Continue reading →

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Turkey’s venomous entrenchment

Posted on July 7, 2017 by yavuzbaydar

”We are not meeting anymore over dinners” said a friend of mine lately, over telephone line: ‘There is no more any will to do so. Many of us realized that after a glass of Raki or so, we start dragging … Continue reading →

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‘Back to square one’: what downgrading of Turkey by PACE means for its relations

Posted on April 25, 2017 by yavuzbaydar

So, in a move that came as no surprise, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has voted to reopen a monitoring procedure against Turkey. It means a downgrading of the country’s status, in a way ‘moving it … Continue reading →

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Not unlikely at all: CHP’s ‘modernists’ may stage an uprising

Posted on April 26, 2013 by yavuzbaydar

Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy — the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was clear in his statement that a final PKK declaration on withdrawal is impending. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, prime minister of … Continue reading →

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