Journalist-Writer
While President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was at a a opening-ceremony-turned-into-a-grand-rally for a grand construction project that aims to transform closed Atatürk Airport in Istanbul into a massive recreational area named “Nation’s Garden” withon the evening of the May 29, the leaders of the six opposition parties were holding their longest meeting in Ankara which lasted
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on May 23 that National Security Council (MGK) will discuss a new military operation into Syria at their next meeting to be held on May 26. The statement came after Erdoğan’s cabinet meeting and it was not a usual one. The president had previously announced cross-border military operations, but
These days, whatever you say on social media is spreading faster than the speed of sound. The opposition spread “flash news/breaking news” while the government-supporters other, regardless of what that news entails. One of the examples of these “breaking news” that dissident social media users blindly shared without fact-checking was the news alleged that the
The crisis sparked by Sweden and Finland’s applications for NATO membership amid the Ukraine war, as well as Turkey’s veto manoeuvre, has entered a new phase. The diplomatic relations have shifted their focus to the US. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, in New York on May 18. Çavuşoğlu
Sweden and Finland rely on the USA to make Turkey vote for thier NATO membership by putting pressure, and they do not change their tone. They act on the assumption that Turkey does not want to put NATO in a weak position against Russia, which continues its invasion operation in Ukraine, and they hope that
Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been spending almost all weekends in Istanbul, but when he went there after the Ramadan Eid, the situation was not very bright for CHP. The trial of the Gezi Protests resulted in Osman Kavala being sentenced to life imprisonment and 7 of his friends in
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,
“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
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
World is watching Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s head-spinning foreign policy maneuvers closely, both with appreciation and caution. One day, Erdogan send United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres off to Moscow as the Secretary General is scheduled to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensy. On the other day, we see Turkey’s president