Exiled journalist warns of a genocide in the making in newly released book
"The increasingly widespread witch-hunt, systematic and widespread hate speech, ongoing persecution and massacre of Gulen movement members have made conditions...
Destruction of the Turkish Central Bank’s independence explained
Turhan Bozkurt
The Central Bank of Turkey (TCMB) started losing its independence after Durmuş Yılmaz left the post of governor in...
[OPINION] Erdoğan scores a win in Turkish Cypriot presidential election
Cevheri Güven
Turkish-backed Prime Minister Ersin Tatar has won out over internationally supported President Mustafa Akıncı in the presidential election in the...
60 jurists sign joint letter to address Turkey’s detention of lawyers
Sixty jurists issued a letter on the detention of dozens of lawyers in police raids on Tuesday.
The letter is as...
[OPINION] US Isolationism Leads to Globalization of Conflicts and Endless Wars
By Irina Tsukerman* August 30, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In recent years, the common refrain that US involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts...
[OPINION] Demonization of the Gülen movement unfair and baseless
Prof. Mehmet Efe Çaman
The Gülen movement is one of two marginalized groups in present-day Turkey along with the with Kurds....
[OPINION] The ‘execution’ of justice in Turkey
Mehmet Tahsin
A terrible play had a two-week run at the Turkish
parliament. The speaker of parliament, the justice minister and deputies
performed...
[OPINION] Third world war?
Ekrem Dumanlı
US President Donald Trump, in his latest United
Nations speech, implied the biggest fight of our century. According to Trump,
“The...
[OPINION] Why is Russia the winner in the S-400 crisis?
Mehmet Efe Çaman
You do not have to be a
weapons expert to understand that the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles
that will be...
[OPINION] The future of Erdoğan and the Kurdish vote
Ekrem Dumanlı
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party,
unable to accept losing the İstanbul mayoral election on March 31, finally...
[OPINION] Ardern and Erdoğan: The difference between greatness and partisanship
Ekrem
Dumanlı
Politics
is like a ladder that consists of four steps. On every step, a politician
should pause and mature. If a politician...
[OPINION] Who is behind Erdoğan?
Mehmet Efe Çaman
When the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, some soldiers in the...