By Arian Mufid: In 1934 Reza Shah, the ruler of Iran, was so impressed by the Turkish rule, the structure of Turkish civilization, and the nation’s founder Kemal Ataturk that he decided to travel there to meet Ataturk in person. Subsequently, Reza Shah followed Ataturk’s example and installed himself as the new Shah of Iran. Ataturk had…
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Category Archives: Erdogan
Erdogan Invites The Turks To Go Back to Mongolia!
By Rebwar Rashed: In the last few weeks there have been rather warm discussions in Erdogan’s presidential palace and in other important decision-making arenas of the Turkish political establishment. The discussions among the Turkish gentlemen have been about how to turn political jokes into reality. We all remember the man with the faint and fixed…
Turkey Headed In The Totally Wrong Direction!
By Rebwar Rashed: With a portfolio comprising the Copenhagen criteria, respect for national, democratic and human rights and a little understanding that other people also need freedom, peace and friendly neighbors, Turkey could have gone a great way towards sustainable peace and a wellbeing future. Turkey’s situation, however, is exactly the opposite. Turkey slides slowly but surely…
The Turkification Of Dutch Society
By Dr Jan Best de Vries: In The Netherlands Erdogan Turks have accused 9 schools of being Gülen schools and the result is that 588 children have been removed from these schools by their parents out of fear that they might be stigmatized by the Turkish comnunity. All the schools are secular ones and the…
Will the USA and EU Punish Turkey If It Doesn’t Commit To Democracy?
By Abdul-Qahar Mustafa: Most people including me know that Turkey has a bad history in dealing with minorities and has never had any true approach to democracy. It started from the time when their ancestors took the land by force from Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, and Greeks in the 11th century. They have subjected and murdered…
Turkey’s Failed Coup and Erdogan’s Anti-Kurdish Agenda
Analysis by the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK): On 15th July 2016 an unsuccessful attempt at a coup happened in Turkey. Even at this early stage, the post-coup process obviously will have important consequences. It is important to understand that this process was started on the 7th June 2015, when Erdogan lost the elections and conducted…
Demirtas: As Ocalan Predicted, Erdogan’s War Against Kurds Triggered the Coup Mechanism
INTERVIEW BY OSMAN OĞUZ/HABER MERKEZİ, YENİ ÖZGÜR POLİTİKA: Re-published from https://hdpenglish.wordpress.com/ We talked with HDP Co-Leader Selahattin Demirtaş about the attempted coup that took place on July 15. What happened still needs a general definition. What was exactly was it we went through? First of all, it is obvious that there has been an attempted military coup…
Some Military Officers Fell Into The Trap of Turkey’s AKP Government
By Abdul-Qahar Mustafa: Turkish media outlet report that nearly 3,000 soldiers, including high-ranking officers, have been arrested over an attempted coup on Friday aimed at bringing down the AKP government. It is said that that a significant number of disloyal officers from the air force, the military police and armored units had been involved in…
Turkey, World’s Most Racist State!
By Rebwar Rashed: The modern history of Turkey is the history of racism, discrimination and exclusion. Thus, it is a history of assimilation, extermination, deportation, displacement, harassment, imprisonment and persecution. The victims are many: Kurds, Assyrians and Armenians and also other non Hanafi-Islam sorts, especially the Alawits. In the rhetoric of Turkish state ideology and…
Is Erdogan Turning Today’s Turkey Into Tomorrow’s Syria?
By Arian Mufid: Yesterday’s terrorist attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport highlights the ultimate folly of President Erdogan’s policy of fostering ISIS and other jihadists, such as the Al Qaeda-affilliate al Nusra, mainly to counteract the righteous Kurdish movement for self rule. Now the deadly chickens he hatched in Syria are coming home to roost. Given…
Hunger in Rojava
By Dr Jan Best de Vries: Due to the whims of Mr Erdogan, individuals and trucks are frequently being prevented from using the sole, still accessible route into Rojava via the Semalka border crossing. Seemingly the latter is in the control of Mr Barzani of the Kurdish, so-called autonomous region of Bashur in Iraq; in…
Turkey is Losing the Kurds and the War Against Kurds
By Ozkan Kocakaya: When Erdogan declared war on the PKK last July, nobody could have foreseen the levels to which it was to be escalated and the widespread destruction of Kurdish towns it would result in. It is widely acknowledged that the war is politically motivated, and whilst it may have consolidated the nationalists’ vote…
Stop the Shameful and Unjust Suit of HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtas
Press Release by the EU-Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC): The EUTCC joins all other advocates of legal due process as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its corresponding EU declarations and respectfully appeals to the Independent democratic Turkish judiciary to dismiss the frivolous libel suit against HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas for insulting the…
Stop Erdogan’s Fascism Before it Does More Damage!
By Rebwar Rashed: Just prior to the first Turkish national election on June 7th 2015, Erdogan started a reactionary war on Kurdish people. The aim was to scare Kurdish voters, minimizing public gatherings and meetings. Tens of bombs exploded in Kurdish areas against Kurdish people, killing hundreds and wounding many more. Even the bomb that…
The Real Face of Erdogan
Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Dossier: Introduction: On the 24th of July, 2015 Turkey launched a war against the Kurds, orchestrated by the conservative AKP government and led by Tayyip Recep Erdogan. Turkey has been notably reluctant to join the anti-ISIS coalition, despite calls by the Western powers and countries. When Turkey did finally join the…
