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, by The Guardian
Singer Helin Bolek, 28, of Grup Yorum, was protesting against government’s treatment of group
A member of a popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died on the 288th day of a hunger strike. The singer and a colleague had started the strike while imprisoned to protest at the (…)
, by AYDIN Uraz
Hats with the inscription “Turkish” in runic letters, wolf head tattoos – a rallying sign of ultra-nationalism – pendants and bracelets in the shape of a swastika openly sold on the street. The symbols of a nationalism of ethnicist and racist inspiration are in vogue especially among urban and (…)
, by MOURADIAN Khatchig
If you had told Aram Manoukian on March 6, 1908, that within a decade he would successfully lead the defense of Van against the Ottoman military, save tens of thousands of Armenians from imminent murder, become the temporary governor of Van after the withdrawal of the Turkish forces, and then (…)
, by OZCAN Giran
During his reign Erdoğan has defeated and silenced political rivals and allies alike, consolidating his grip on power. Now, he’s after the jackpot.
One of the most interesting things to watch in Turkish politics over the past ten years or so has been one man’s ability to come out triumphant (…)
, by BATUMAN Elif
In 1924, a year after founding the Turkish Republic on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the country’s new leader, abolished the Ottoman Caliphate, which had been the last remaining Sunni Islamic Caliphate since 1517. Having introduced a secular constitution and a (…)
, by BATOU Jean
The demand for recognition of the Armenian Genocide is inseparable from the defense of democratic freedoms in Turkey.
April 24 marked one hundred years since the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian (…)
, by AYDIN Uraz
“The centenary of that which we cannot talk about”. That’s what the conference organized in April by the prestigious University of Bogazici (Istanbul) had to be called, since the term “genocide” had to be removed from the title which had been originally planned.
An event that aptly summarizes (…)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
The World Bank tried very hard to make the the Turkish military appear salutary, and to avoid criticising their interventions.The official comments from the Bank, that the 1980 coup d’état would not jeopardise the Bank’s intention to lend, were very courteous.
The World Bank’s strategy in (…)
, by KÜRKÇÜGIL Masis
The “Islamist movement” which, since the transition to multi-partyism after World War II, had found a niche in the parties of the centre right — first inside the Democratic Party (DP) and then after the coup d’état in 1960, in the Justice Party (AP) — first formed an independent political party (…)
, by MAROIS Thomas
Turkey has been touted as one of the great ‘emerging market’ success stories. As the advanced capitalisms like the US and UK sunk into the Great Recession, Turkey pulled out of crisis earning the moniker of a key ‘growth market’ in 2011 by Jim O’Neill, the chair of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (…)
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