Winning the battle, losing the war
Ömer Taşpınar After months of polarization and political turmoil, it is finally election time in Turkey. Once again, a municipal election has become a referendum on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan....
View ArticleWhen Hearts Converged Through the Language Festival
It was again another colorful event when the Nigerian Turkish International Colleges organized their fifth annual language festival to remind the nation and world of importance of various cultural...
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Forget about the gentleman living in Pennsylvania, US tells Ankara
Turkey should stop discussing “the gentleman in Pennsylvania” and instead focus on other important issues as a NATO ally, the U.S. State Department said, regarding U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah...
View ArticlePrime Minister Erdogan’s Revenge
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey got what he wanted from Sunday’s elections for mayors and other local officials — a strong vote of confidence for his Islamist-rooted Justice and...
View ArticleKoza gold firm starts up company in UK
The Turkish gold firm Koza Altın, which has faced several setbacks in its mines in Turkey, has started up a 60-million pound ($100 million) capitalized company in the United Kingdom.“The U.K.-based...
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US says criticism of Erdoğan has nothing to do with Gülen
US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf has said that regardless of whether Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen was living in Pennsylvania or not, it would still not be OK for the government of...
View ArticleInterior Ministry planning to dismiss all reassigned police officers
Having conducted a sweeping purge in the police force resulting in the reassignment of nearly 15,000 police officers since a major corruption and bribery probe became public on Dec. 17 of last year,...
View ArticleErdoğan gov’t may soon launch witch-hunt type prosecution against opponents
There has been increased chatter in the Turkish capital signaling that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government may soon open legal cases in order to harass his opponents, especially people and...
View ArticleWhat will Erdoğan do?
Emre Uslu There is nothing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can do to hurt the societal groups that oppose him if he acts within the law, because his opponents have not committed any crime....
View ArticleStability unlikely
Amanda Paul Based on election surveys, last Sunday's local elections were not expected to deliver any groundbreaking results despite the fact that many people were wishing for such a thing. Yet,...
View ArticleCyber attacks on news websites threaten freedom of press, expression
Ongoing major cyber attacks on a number of popular news websites, including the Zaman, Today's Zaman and Taraf newspapers as well as the Cihan news agency, are not only preventing the portals from...
View ArticleBallot box victory in an illiberal democracy
Begüm Burak In a 1997 article titled “Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research,” David Collier and Steven Levistky wrote about “diminished sub-types of democracy.”...
View ArticleElection results and the Hizmet movement
İhsan Yılmaz Unlike the perception that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tried to create, with the help of tremendous media power, the contention in the run-up to the elections was never between the...
View ArticleErdogan Jumps out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire
Henri J. Barkey* Prime Minister Erdogan won the day in Turkey’s municipal elections, but his one-party rule will be even more hotly contested as the August presidential election approaches. Turkish...
View ArticleGulen factor in Turkey's turmoil
Mian Wakeel Uddin For the last few weeks, Turkey has been rocked by the country's biggest-ever bribery investigation which has led to the detention of some influential people within the ruling AKP...
View ArticleThe Erdoğan-Gülen encounter and democracy
Ali Yurttagül* It is not normal that the non-political Gülen movement would occupy such a central space in election campaigning; this is why the situation calls for some special scrutiny. Some...
View ArticleDefending Hizmet
Angela Lee Ayaz I have never met Fethullah Gulen. I have read his books, and watched videos of him, and talked to those who know him, and to those who simply love him. I have heard those who hate him,...
View ArticleTurkish charity Kimse Yok Mu helps the homeless after floods in Zimbabwe
One of the largest charity organizations in Turkey, Kimse Yok Mu, has launched a massive aid campaign to extend help to nearly 20,000 people hit hard by floods that have devastated the border areas of...
View ArticleErdoğan takes battle with enemies beyond Turkish frontiers
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan's battle to root out the "terrorists" he says are embedded in the Turkish state is extending beyond its frontiers to Africa and Asia, further complicating foreign policy...
View ArticleTurkish minister: 'Shelving of talks would mean parallel structure-EU...
European Union Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has dismissed the prospect that Turkey's accession talks with the European Union might be suspended, saying on Wednesday that if the EU freezes the...
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