Ergenekon
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AS HE LAY DYING by Cem Ryan
in Cem RyanAs 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…
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Who will guard the “guardians” in today’s Turkey?
in TurkeyIn his famous question “who will guard the guardians?” Plato places a rather challenging and provocative question mark in everybody’s mind. Throughout the course of […]
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General Asymmetrica Rhymes With America
“Probes are ‘asymmetric, psychological,’ says ex-army chief” shouted the headline in the Hurriyet Daily News, another media mouthpiece of the Turkish government, this one for […]
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Breaking stereotypes in Brussels
in TurkeyAt the end of March the Friends of Turkey, a group of 76 MEPs, together with TUSKON, a Turkish business confederation, held a seminar in […]
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Clinton curious about Turkish military, government, Ergenekon triangle
in TurkeyISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton requested information from the Istanbul Consulate and Ankara Embassy in August 2009 regarding where […]