All of the national daily newspapers published in Turkey dedicated a special place on their front pages on Monday to the trial of people suspected of membership in Ergenekon, a criminal network with ties to the state. Headlines and titles were similar: "Trial of...
Unfortunately the content of the Article 140 has been underestimated through the many articles usually and frequently not objectively written, by who don’t distinguish this Article from another constitutional Articles, and contain wrong interpretations and...
If we concentrate on the founding father of modern day Turkey, Ataturk, then it is clear that he himself supported the destruction of Christianity via the Assyrian, Armenian and Greek Christian genocide of 1915. Turkish nationalism was the potent force behind modern...
Dozens of people were detained in two cities in largely Kurdish southeastern Turkey.In Diyarbakir, the largest city in the region, more than 5,000 slogan-chanting demonstrators protested. Police did not initially react but charged when they were attacked with stones....
Such compromises in the past have led to the weakening of the political leadership while strengthening the political power of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).Turkish security analysts compared Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s defense of Gen. Ilker Basbug,...
The American invasion was meant to install democracy and fresh hope. However, democracy is a long way away and secular law, which protected the rights of Christians, women, minorities, and others, during the reign of Saddam Hussein, was replaced by de facto Islamic...
