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In the early hours of February 3, US special forces raided a two-story house in Atme village in Idlib, near Syria’s border with Turkey. At least 13 people, including six women and four children, were killed in the raid, which was carried out with intense helicopter fire. In a statement broadcast live from the White
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on February 2, referred the case of imprisoned philanthropist and civil rights activist Osman Kavala to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). It is the next step in “infringement proceedings” that may result in Turkey’s suspension from the Council of Europe, of which it is
Yesterday, on February 1, Turkey’s social media users, especially Whatsapp users, were busy sharing a text and circulating it around. I must have received that text at least from fifty different sources. At first sight, there were many signs that it could be fake, but it seemed that its target audience was the opposition, and
What I mean by the confessions is not limited to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent u-turn about the electricity price hikes, in which he stated that the threshold for the low consumption was miscalculated because of the request of the electricity companies. At the beginning of 2022, the government announced further gradual price adjustments for
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has recently been actively constructing its political strategy on various topics, from appealing to Kurdish voters to bureaucracy. But the most recent developments necessitated us to add new propaganda and counter-propaganda tactics to the titles of CHP’s political strategy activities. The latest example was Kılıçdaroğlu’s Twitter broadcast on
I try to interpret current political affairs over photographs or video footage from time to time. It provides a better angle to analyze developments with a more objective perspective than written statements or statistics. It is also the case for the photograph taken at the handover ceremony at Turkey’s Ministry of Justice on January 29.
I had a hard time writing the title of this post. For example, the title could have been “Erdoğan took a step back, Sezen Aksu won”. Or a title like “Has the second İmralı process started with Öcalan?” would also be appropriate for what President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on the NTV-Star joint broadcast on
Koç Holding Board of Directors Chair Ömer Koç announced his recipe for recovering the economy as “reducing country risk by implementing serious reforms, as was done in the first ten years of the 2000s.” In other words, he says, the way to recover the economy is through structural and fundamental reforms. These words of Koç
“As the opposition, we must be prepared for anything,” said Future Party (FP) leader Ahmet Davutoğlu on the phone, pointing at ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) “People Alliance” which reiterate their objection to the early election call of the opposition debating that the election will be held on time,
Turkey’s ruling block Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has long been using diversion tactics to divert and control public discussion to topics that would serve their political agenda; however, the latest defamation campaigns, arrest of journalists and threats indicate something more hazardous that pose a threat to freedom of expression,