President Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Brussels on March 9 for a series of top-level meetings. But the public influence of a video report by the Russian state broadcaster Rossiya, which claimed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “kept him waiting for two minutes,” was in the back of his mind. It was no coincidence that the
No, it isn’t here. No. There is no Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Turkey. This is a tremendous achievement by the Ministry of Health. Let me begin by congratulating them on their success. There isn’t a single Coronavirus case in Turkey, even though all surrounding countries have them, including our Western neighbor Greece, with its 11 million
What happens if your fever, your body temperature, increases by 3 degrees? You have to run to the emergency room, right? But what if earth’s fever increases 3 degrees? I try to explain. Oceans become warmer as the land heats up. On the one hand, the melting of glaciers at the poles accelerates In Antarctica,
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on March 6 that Europe was “not going to be blackmailed by Turkey over this problem”, meaning the Syrian (and other) refugees piled up on the two countries’ common border. He was also saying that the 2016 agreement to curb “irregular migration” was “dead” because Turkey ceased to stop
Zülfü Livaneli has been one of the leading symbols in Turkey in the quest for rights and justice. An artist who feels equally comfortable with the traditional Anatolian saz, the pen or the microphone, he is an international name followed by millions as a musician, writer, and political activist…Many generations grew up with his songs,
When ‘security’ is at stake, civil liberties might be suppressed, laws might be violated, inhumanity might be justified. Then, security befalls as the enemy of human beings as it is their rights, freedoms and living conditions which are extremely endangered. For the last two weeks, it has been such a case of invocation of security
This year’s Oscars was one of the most discussed topics. There wasn’t a single woman among the best director nominees. Only one woman got nominated in this category in the last decade. To highlight this issue, Natalie Portman came to the ceremony in a dress that had female directors’ names embroidered on its collar. And,
As not shaking hands turns into a new craze, Turkey and Russia miss another opportunity of free expression at a Kremlin summit, experiencing a confusion instead on who would shake other’s hand first. U.S. loses no time to fill the gap. Ali Kayalar Being left handed is a lifetime headache for countless reasons and even
Gönenç Gürkaynak Is nobody considered depraved or lowly, banal and mediocre, or even common, anymore? Or are we left only with the “powerful” and the “weak” on this earth? Once upon a time, there used to exist people who, although powerful, could not garner any respectability; who were deemed to be vulgar despite their riches;