European Parliament Archive
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Reply to Baroness Shreela Flather
Posted on July 8, 2011 | 1 CommentRe: your question and proposal to the House of Lords -16.06.2011 House of Lords London SW1 OPW 01/07/2011 Dear Baroness Shreela Flather, The Ataturk Society of the UK has been... -
European Parliament to call for new constitution in Turkey
Posted on December 8, 2010 | No CommentsThe European Parliament is expected to reiterate its call on Turkey to adopt a new constitution to better protect human rights and freedoms in a draft resolution due to be... -
Greeks of Istanbul Celebration Held at European Parliament
Posted on December 8, 2010 | No CommentsA celebration dedicated to the Greeks of Istanbul will take place next Wednesday at the European Parliament. The initiative was organized by Marilena Koppa of Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima and George Koumoutsakos... -
DEAD HEADS by Cem Ryan
Posted on October 14, 2010 | No CommentsIt's now all the chi-chi fashion rage! The prurient fashion designing male politicians of both sides are again trying to determine what Turkish women should wear on their heads. -
DARKNESS MADE VISIBLE BY THE TURKISH ZOLA
Posted on October 1, 2010 | No CommentsOn 29 September 2010, 108 years to the day after Zola’s death, the ongoing disaster called Turkey received yet another Pinochet-style shock in its struggle to retain its secularity. -
One day Turkey will run the EU
Posted on September 30, 2010 | 2 Comments28 September 2010 Die Presse Vienna Hassan Bleibel, Al Mustaqbal (Beirut) Turkey isn’t even a member yet, but deputy prime minister Ali Babacan is already demanding a leading role in... -
MONKEYS IN WONDERLAND
Posted on August 22, 2010 | No CommentsSilivri is sunflower country, vast undulating sun-filled land that rolls down to the Marmara Sea about 72 kilometers west of Istanbul. Silivri Prison squats therein on spoiled high ground 72... -
![JAMES C. RYAN, Ph.D. [Letterhead Redacted] 20 July 2010 The Honorable Barack H. Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 USA...](http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "A Heart of Darkness Envelopes Turkey: A Letter to President Obama (20 July 2010) English/Turkish")
A Heart of Darkness Envelopes Turkey: A Letter to President Obama (20 July 2010) English/Turkish
Posted on August 9, 2010 | 5 CommentsJAMES C. RYAN, Ph.D. [Letterhead Redacted] 20 July 2010 The Honorable Barack H. Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 USA... -
Iran and Turkey: Friends Today, Rivals Tomorrow?
Posted on June 22, 2010 | No CommentsMonday, 21 June 2010 23:37 Written by RFE/RL 0 Comments By Robert Tait (RFE/RL) — It is the friendship Western policymakers wish they could have prevented: Turkey — secular, Western-leaning,... -
Wait and See Game for Turkey’s Enforcement of UN Sanctions on Iran
Posted on June 22, 2010 | No CommentsDorian Jones | IstanbuL 21 June 2010 Photo: AFP Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the V-sign for victory as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on after the Islamic... -
Operation Mini Cast Lead
Posted on June 7, 2010 | No CommentsBy Gideon Levy Like in “Mini-Israel,” the park where there is everything, but smaller, Israel embarked yesterday on a mini Operation Cast Lead. Like its larger, losing predecessor, this operation had... -
GAZA FLOTILLA: NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN UK!
Posted on June 2, 2010 | 1 CommentDate: Saturday 5th June Assemble 1:30pm outside Downing Street, LONDON, UK March to Israeli Embassy with speakers from the Flotolla End the Siege of Gaza Freedom for Palestine -
Israel Murders Peace Activists: Butchery at Sea
Posted on June 2, 2010 | No CommentsConsidering yesterday�s news about Israeli nuclear submarines being stationed in the Gulf, the world must react quickly and severely. Israel is now officially mad and deadly. ———————————————————————————————————————————— by GILAD ATZMON... -
ISRAELI BUTCHERY AT SEA BY GILAD ATZMON
Posted on June 1, 2010 | No CommentsAs I write this piece the scale of the Israeli lethal slaughter at sea is yet to be clear. However we already know that at around 4am Gaza time, hundreds... -
Rising Powers Do not Want to Play by the West’s Rules
Posted on May 22, 2010 | No CommentsFinancial Times By Philip Stephens May 20 2010 There are two ways of looking at the efforts of Turkey and Brazil to resolve the dispute about Iran’s nuclear programme. One... -
Turkey is an enormous present on Europe’s doorstep (Video)
Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Commentshttp://www.intelligencesquared.com/iq2-video/2005/lets-keep-turkey-out-of-europe?SQ_PAINT_LAYOUT_NAME=chapter&start=2883&end=3278&sgmt=37552 Turkey is an enormous present on Europe’s doorstep. Speaker: Professor Norman Stone Arguing against the motion ‘Let’s keep Turkey out of Europe’, Norman Stone asserts that Turkey’s history mirrors that... -
Turkey will make Europe a better model and actor (Video)
Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Commentshttp://www.intelligencesquared.com/iq2-video/2005/lets-keep-turkey-out-of-europe?SQ_PAINT_LAYOUT_NAME=chapter&start=739&end=1286&sgmt=37548 Turkey will make Europe a better model and actor (Video). Speaker: Dominique Moisi Arguing against the motion ‘Let’s keep Turkey out of Europe’, Dominique Moisi says he regards the debate... -
The United Ireland Party officially supports Turkish membership of the EU
Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Commentshttp://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0410/1224268052473.html The United Ireland Party, FINE GAEL, has said it officially supports Turkish membership of the European Union notwithstanding opposition to the move expressed by one of its TDs this... -
The peoples of both Ireland and Turkey suffered from Winston Churchill
Posted on April 11, 2010 | No Commentshttp://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/kevin-myers-the-peoples-of-turkey-and-ireland-both-suffered-from-the-warmongering-of-winston-churchill-2116638.html I should remind you here that ‘our gallant ally’ , U.K. , had conquered and subdued Namibia and Tanganyika by methods even more barbarous than those of the British in... -
Turkey’s presence in EU as an armed invader in Christian lands
Posted on April 11, 2010 | No Commentshttp://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/kevin-myers-for-250-years-turkeys-presence-in-europe-was-invariably-as-an-armed-invader-in-christian-lands-2118175.html Unless we admit Turkey, says Mr Erdogan, the EU will “end up a Christian club”. Well, is that so very bad? Didn’t Christians invent just about everything for the...
