Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s statement on May 13 that Turkey would not consider Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership favorably, has exposed the conflict that has been going on behind closed doors since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The plan to make Sweden and Finland, which are members of the European Union but not NATO members,
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey does not view Finland and Sweeden’s NATO bid positively, stating that the two countries “have become a safe haven for terrorism.” “We are following the developments (about their NATO membership process) however we do not view that positively,” Erdoğan said to a group of journalists on May
“I am aware of the threat posed by the insensate power that the tyranny we face holds and does not hesitate to use.” These are the words of the imprisoned former co-chairman of the Kurdish issue-focused People’s Democracy Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş from a long letter he sent from Edirne prison where he has been
The Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the prison sentence given to main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul Provincial Chair Canan Kaftancıoğlu for her Twitter posts. CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu summoned all the party’s deputies to the Istanbul provincial building. The 3rd Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Appeals completed the appeal examination on
If asked who had the biggest financial blast in the last twenty years in Turkey, it is safe to say that it was the middle-class. Having never been strong in Turkish history, the middle-class lost further power with the neoliberal-populist policies of recent years. These policies, focused on gaining the consent of the upper and
I was once a screen regular of Turkey’s one of the leading comedy writer Gülse Birsel’s TV Show European Side/Avrupa Yakası. Recently, I am hooked on Ali Sunal and his team’s Güldür Güldür comedy sketch show on Show TV. Last Saturday night, the show advertised that among the sketches to be aired after the commercial
On January 6, 1955, Turkey’s late Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, flew to Baghdad at the invitation of the Iraqi and Lebanese governments respectively. The visit was organized to reciprocate the state visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said to Turkey in the fall of 1954. Nuri Said (Pasha) who graduated from an Ottoman military academy
The US public’s anger against the US Supreme Court’s leaked draft of abortion ruling to overturn a 1973 landmark jurisprudence in the Rove v Wade decision 49 years, almost a half century, later and the President Biden recommending that the Court should not do so demonstrate how much the judiciaries have become politicised and how
Turkey’s inflation continues soaring as Turkish Statistical Institute announced that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 7,25 in April, 69 percent annually. Domestic Producer Price Index (D-PPI) increased by 121,82 percent on annual basis and 7,67 on monthly basis. According to the independent research group ENA Group which calculates inflation with daily data sets,
Abuse of a child in a Directorate of Religious Affairs’ Qur’an Course; a party’s vice-president receiving the Metropolitan Municipality tender; a cocaine trial related to a former president of a major association; investigation of a tender of a metropolitan municipality subsidiary; suspicious acquittal of a business person; claims related to presidential administration affairs; photograph of
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