Turkey Archive

  • The 14-year-old Istanbul-Armenian high school student Klara Yeteroglu who, with her composition entitled “Being Armenian in Turkey,” was declared winner of a composition contest, is at the focus of Turkish...

    Istanbul-Armenian student becomes “apple of the eye” of Turkish media

    The 14-year-old Istanbul-Armenian high school student Klara Yeteroglu who, with her composition entitled “Being Armenian in Turkey,” was declared winner of a composition contest, is at the focus of Turkish...

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  • Turkish President Abdullah Gul meets Monday with the Tribune’s editorial board. (Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune / May 21, 2012) John Kass His largely Islamic nation, so often misunderstood, ruled by...

    Turkey’s leader discusses a promise not yet fulfilled

    Turkish President Abdullah Gul meets Monday with the Tribune’s editorial board. (Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune / May 21, 2012) John Kass His largely Islamic nation, so often misunderstood, ruled by...

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  • By Piotr Zalewski / Diyarbakir It is Monday evening in Diyarbakir, a city in Turkey’s southeast, and a weekly meeting of several local members of the so-called Gulen movement has...

    A Visit with Turkey’s Controversial Religious Movement

    By Piotr Zalewski / Diyarbakir It is Monday evening in Diyarbakir, a city in Turkey’s southeast, and a weekly meeting of several local members of the so-called Gulen movement has...

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  • By Ariana Keyman on May 21, 2012 The nature of civil-military relations throughout the history of modern Turkey has been contentious to say the least. Since the founding of the...

    Civil-Military Relations in Turkey

    By Ariana Keyman on May 21, 2012 The nature of civil-military relations throughout the history of modern Turkey has been contentious to say the least. Since the founding of the...

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  • The complex dynamics of Turkey’s geographical position and cultural uniqueness have always defied easy explanation. But in the decade since Tayip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) were...

    Turkey: East, West Or Erdogan? – OpEd

    The complex dynamics of Turkey’s geographical position and cultural uniqueness have always defied easy explanation. But in the decade since Tayip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) were...

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  •     By ADAM ENTOUS And JOE PARKINSON ULUDERE, Turkey—After winding along a narrow mountain ridge, a caravan of 38 men and mules paused on the Turkish-Iraqi border. Then they...

    Turkey’s Attack on Civilians Tied to U.S. Military Drone

        By ADAM ENTOUS And JOE PARKINSON ULUDERE, Turkey—After winding along a narrow mountain ridge, a caravan of 38 men and mules paused on the Turkish-Iraqi border. Then they...

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  • The Case of Cihan Kırmızıgül Keffiyeh Crime in Turkey by MICHAEL DICKINSON On February 20th 2010 Cihan Kırmızıgül, a junior industrial engineering student of Galatasaray University, was waiting at a...

    Keffiyeh Crime in Turkey

    The Case of Cihan Kırmızıgül Keffiyeh Crime in Turkey by MICHAEL DICKINSON On February 20th 2010 Cihan Kırmızıgül, a junior industrial engineering student of Galatasaray University, was waiting at a...

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  • As he lay dying in those autumn afternoons of 1938, Atatürk had one abiding desire. He longed for those distant days on horseback, just one more afternoon riding in the hills above the Bosphorus. He would go again with his military academy classmate, Ali Fuat, to the sultan’s hunting lodge in Alemdağ. They would once more picnic in that nearby meadow. Oh those cadet days, those days of youth. To be twenty-one again, rejuvenated. But by then the lodge was in ruins and Ataturk could barely walk.

    AS HE LAY DYING by Cem Ryan

    As he lay dying in those autumn afternoons of 1938, Atatürk had one abiding desire. He longed for those distant days on horseback, just one more afternoon riding in the hills above the Bosphorus. He would go again with his military academy classmate, Ali Fuat, to the sultan’s hunting lodge in Alemdağ. They would once more picnic in that nearby meadow. Oh those cadet days, those days of youth. To be twenty-one again, rejuvenated. But by then the lodge was in ruins and Ataturk could barely walk.

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  • Newly released Wikileaks documents show increased concern among U.S. officials of the Gulen Movement - Dr. Paul L. Williams  Monday, March 21, 2011   The latest documents from Wikileaks shows growing...

    FETULLAH: Meet “the Most Dangerous Islamist on Planet Earth” He lives in Pennsylvania

    Newly released Wikileaks documents show increased concern among U.S. officials of the Gulen Movement - Dr. Paul L. Williams  Monday, March 21, 2011   The latest documents from Wikileaks shows growing...

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  • By ANDREW FINKEL ISTANBUL — Is Turkey’s prime minister past his expiration date? At first glance, the question sounds absurd. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has led his Justice and Development Party,...

    Erdogan Moves to Extend his Hold on Power in Turkey

    By ANDREW FINKEL ISTANBUL — Is Turkey’s prime minister past his expiration date? At first glance, the question sounds absurd. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has led his Justice and Development Party,...

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  • 19 May 1919 was an ending and a beginning. It marks the first day of the ending of centuries of repression and dark-minded ignorance. It also marks the first day of the Turkish war of independence. Like a titan, the 38 year old Mustafa Kemal rose from the sea at Samsun and struck a mighty blow for freedom and national sovereignty. The day signifies the eventual nullification and rejection of hundreds of years of “sharia” governance.

    IT’S 19 MAY…KNOW YOUR ENEMY!

    19 May 1919 was an ending and a beginning. It marks the first day of the ending of centuries of repression and dark-minded ignorance. It also marks the first day of the Turkish war of independence. Like a titan, the 38 year old Mustafa Kemal rose from the sea at Samsun and struck a mighty blow for freedom and national sovereignty. The day signifies the eventual nullification and rejection of hundreds of years of “sharia” governance.

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  • Gulnara Inanch, director Online International Information and Analytical center Ethnoglobus.az, related info turkishnews.com, mete62@inbox.ru On 12 and 13 April Ankara (Turkey) hold a forum of South Azerbaijanis. Public Forum was organized...

    South Azerbaijanis as a new bargaining chip in resolving the Iranian problem.

    Gulnara Inanch, director Online International Information and Analytical center Ethnoglobus.az, related info turkishnews.com, mete62@inbox.ru On 12 and 13 April Ankara (Turkey) hold a forum of South Azerbaijanis. Public Forum was organized...

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  • ** FILE ** Flags of Turkey, left, and the European Union fly over the dome of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: AP ** FILE ** Flags of Turkey, left,...

    Turkey Begins Drafting New Constitution

    ** FILE ** Flags of Turkey, left, and the European Union fly over the dome of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: AP ** FILE ** Flags of Turkey, left,...

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  • ISTANBUL—There may be a rising tide of younger Turks heading back to the motherland, but one of Turkey’s most seasoned tycoons stresses that the fast-growing country also needs to lure...

    Flow of Returning Turkish Expats Vital for Growth

    ISTANBUL—There may be a rising tide of younger Turks heading back to the motherland, but one of Turkey’s most seasoned tycoons stresses that the fast-growing country also needs to lure...

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  • By Emre Peker and Ali Berat Meric – May 9, 2012 9:48 AM GMT+0200 Turkey is revising military recruitment regulations, paving the way for civilians to become officers and easing...

    Turkey to Open Military Officer Careers to University Graduates

    By Emre Peker and Ali Berat Meric – May 9, 2012 9:48 AM GMT+0200 Turkey is revising military recruitment regulations, paving the way for civilians to become officers and easing...

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  • The military, Kurds and political Islam are sensitive topics for journalists Turkey’s airwaves are lively, with some 300 private TV stations – more than a dozen of them with national...

    Turkey profile

    The military, Kurds and political Islam are sensitive topics for journalists Turkey’s airwaves are lively, with some 300 private TV stations – more than a dozen of them with national...

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  • It Will Not Happen to Me! Guess What? It Wll !!! Chapter 8 We as concerned citizens must rescue our governments from the privileged few or we will find ourselves...

    It Will not happen to me. Guess What? It Will! Chapter 8

    It Will Not Happen to Me! Guess What? It Wll !!! Chapter 8 We as concerned citizens must rescue our governments from the privileged few or we will find ourselves...

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  • A parliamentary committee in Turkey is due to start work on the country’s first fully civilian constitution. The aim is to draft a simpler and more democratic charter to replace...

    Turkey to write first fully civilian constitution

    A parliamentary committee in Turkey is due to start work on the country’s first fully civilian constitution. The aim is to draft a simpler and more democratic charter to replace...

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  • April 26, 2012 By Seth Daniel Mark Spencer, owner of Arsenal Consulting on Admiral’s Hill, played a key part in finding forged documents that were crucial pieces of evidence in a...

    BALYOZ :Key Evidence in Major Turkish Trial Blown to Pieces by Chelsea Company

    April 26, 2012 By Seth Daniel Mark Spencer, owner of Arsenal Consulting on Admiral’s Hill, played a key part in finding forged documents that were crucial pieces of evidence in a...

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  • MAXIME GAUIN PULAT TACAR Reply  to “State Identity, Continuity and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire,                           the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide”                                                                                                     Pulat Tacar[1] and Maxime...

    IMPORTANT REPLY TO EJIL ON ARMENIAN ISSUE

    MAXIME GAUIN PULAT TACAR Reply  to “State Identity, Continuity and Responsibility: The Ottoman Empire,                           the Republic of Turkey and the Armenian Genocide”                                                                                                     Pulat Tacar[1] and Maxime...

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