Demirtaş from prison: “Opposition coact if not alliance”
“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...
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Top court upholds prison sentence to CHP’s İstanbul Chair
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...
The Decline of the Middle Class in Turkey: Need for a Tax Reform
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...
Will censoring a comedy skit on Minister save economy?
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...
“Being a mosque” in the Middle East: Erdoğan’s Riyadh visit
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...
US Supreme Court abortion law leak and judicial independence
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...
Turkey’s inflation soaring: 69 percent
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...
World Press Freedom Day in Turkey: “At the courthouse four days a week”
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...
Türkiye Falls Behind in Quality of Public Decision Making Rankings
Public administration is the key to people’s collective realization of their aspirations and sustainable development. There are seven areas where the public administration is expected to actively undertake responsibility: 1. Securing the rule of...
Erdoğan’s Head-Spinning Maneuvers: Pushing the Boundaries
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...