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  • ERDOĞAN ON THE HORNS

    ERDOĞAN ON THE HORNS

    The ferocious antics of the prime minister over the past three weeks—or has it been three years or eleven?—made me think about hamburgers. And then bulls. Ever dangerous, always charging blindly ahead, the same instinctive tactic wired into their incomplete animal brains, always completely predictable, always ending up on the table….. chopped meat.

  • ‘Turkey needs time to change’

    ‘Turkey needs time to change’

    Ismail Ertug, a member of the European Parliament and Germany’s Social Democratic Party, spoke with DW about the clash between the Turkish police and demonstrators. […]

  • Turkey: deputy PM apologises for ‘excessive violence’ against protesters

    Turkey: deputy PM apologises for ‘excessive violence’ against protesters

    Turkey: deputy PM apologises for ‘excessive violence’ against protesters Bulent Arinc says original crackdown was unjust and government is sensitive to demonstrators’ concerns Associated Press […]

  • ERDOĞAN: TURKEY’S “MARGINAL” MAN

    ERDOĞAN: TURKEY’S “MARGINAL” MAN

    Erdoğan is desperate and finished as a political leader. He has that inappropriate smirk-sneer on his increasingly sullen face. His credibility is finished. His judgment has been […]