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By Evin Cheikosman: Ever since the Gezi protests last summer, PM Erdogan has been on the defensive. Wary of the stability of the country and the fragile state of his planned running for the presidential elections on 10th August, he has done everything he can to suppress any forms of opposition and shun anything that…
By Ahmet A. Ozbek: The worst kind of dictatorship comes by people’s vote in the elections, because the dictator doesn’t takes his power either from the state or military in the regime, but from the majority of the people. Gun Zileli – Turkish Scholar and Writer I am not a social scientist or political analyst…
By a Correspondent: The London Review of Books carries an article by American journalist Seymour Hersh arguing that last August’s chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta was carried out not by the Assad regime but by al Nusra Front terrorists backed by the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. At the time the…
By Sarkawt Shams: The decisive victory of Erdogan’s AKP, Justice and Development Party, in the municipality election, is an indication of AKP’s successful strategies for the peace process and its economic progress. Both cases are related; the peace and stability at its border and the involvement of imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, in…
Interview by a KT Correspondent in Istanbul: Shamil Altan, co-president of the Istanbul regional Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) spoke to a KT correspondent on the eve of Turkey’s critical municipal elections. He discussed the election campaign in Turkey and Kurdistan and said there is a danger, in the current state crisis, that the army will…
By Dr Aland Mizell: The current power fight between Prime Minister Erodgan and retired Imam Gülen’s mission organization has revealed Gülen’s real agenda. Prime Minister Erdogan is launching a criminal investigation into an alleged “parallel devlet,” “a state within a state.“ Prime Minister Erdogan put the emeritus Imam Gülen and his mission organization under the…
By Dr. Aland Mizell: In the past Turkey’s military junta would stage a coup and overthrow the democratically elected government, but now an imam is trying to overthrow the Prime Minister, who was elected by popular vote, along with his administration. The imam is using the military junta method in a coup d’ état by forcing…
By Dr Aland Mizell: Gülen and his followers are accusing Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan of not being transparent and accountable, but also of being authoritarian and dictatorial. The question is how transparent is Gülen and his organization? Recently, the Machiavelli in Pennsylvania revealed his authentic character by cursing the Prime Minister and causing hate…
KT News: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced yesterday that he will reveal the Turkish government’s ‘democracy package’ before the end of September. These details were expected some weeks ago, as part of the peace process that began in January. The KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) responded last week to the delay by announcing a halt…
By Ahmet Abidin Özbek: His ego is so big and there is no costume to fit him. He has continued to destroy democracy in the country, just like the others before him. After ten years of tyranny, he has become one of the richest officials in the history of Turkey since the Ottoman era. Actually,…
By Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami: A wishful article by Barçın Yinanç, entitled ‘Turkey’s Y generation will solve the Kurdish problem’ appeared in Hurriyet Daily, where she shared and analyzed her experience of the Gezi Park protests and hoped for a solution to the Kurdish issue by the ‘Y’ generation of Turkey protesting at Gezi park and…
By Solin Hacador: I am having difficulty with understanding Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan´s misbehavior towards the Gezi Park protesters. His violent behavior, exercising power arrogantly, looks like a macho man standing in democratic Islam´s big fat tuxedo. Machismo and prolonged rule are, of course, two defining aspects of Erdogan—the strong-arm, charismatic, elected-dictator, whose successive incarnations…
By Mohammad Pervez Bilgrami: The Syrian uprising against four decades of Baathist rule of the Alawai/Nuseyri Al-Assad family has been confronted in the past. During the reign of Hafez Al-Assad, father of the incumbent President Basher Al-Assad, a Muslim Brotherhood led rebellion was curbed ruthlessly by state forces in Hama in the year 1982. Witness…
By Shwan Zulal: At the airport moment before boarding the plane bound to the US, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced that Turkey has agreed a deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Exxonmobil for oil and gas exploration in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The PM only made a brief statement…
