John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil and served as its president for 29 years. He was one of the richest businessmen of all time. He lived for almost a century until the age of 98. Rockefeller was a highly engaged reader of the New York Times. However, the bad news in the newspaper demoralized him,
Following the suicide bombing attack on a police station in the Southern province of Mersin on Sep. 26, imprisoned politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the Kurdish-issue-focused People’s Democracy Party (HDP), posted a series of messages on his Twitter account on the evening of 30 September. With these messages, Demirtaş was taking a stance
Amid talks in the main opposition block to come up with a candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the 2023 Turkish elections, another election alliance was announced on September 24 in İstanbul around the Kurdish-problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). It is called the “Labor and Freedom Alliance, (EÖİ). The left-wing parties that allied
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is not “worried about winning the elections” as the party sources indicate a new election strategy which would focus on winning the presidential elections rather than ensuring the majority in the parliament ahead of 2023 election. His shift in focus indicate
Is the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) preparing for an early election? Had it not been for Hürriyet newspaper’s pro-government columnist Abdülkadir Selvi’s insight from AKP rooms, I would have thought that the rumor was circulated to spark speculation move in the stock market. However, after notorious mafia figure Sedat Peker publicized yet another
President Tayyip Erdoğan’s speech at the Ankara Chamber of Commerce’s conference hall on July 6 as the leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) revealed his greatest concern. It is the fear that he might lose the election has gotten Erdoğan and he correctly identified the reason for this fear: the 2023 election
“The first prerequisite for winning a game is to know that you are in one. If you can’t change the board, change the players.” The quote is from Miles Copeland, a former CIA officer and jazz trumpet player. In his memoirs, Copeland recounted his involvement in numerous covert operations, including the March 1949 Syrian coup