Turkey Archive
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Meeting the Geopolitical Challenges of the Arab Spring: A Call for a joint EU-Turkish Agenda
Posted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsMeeting the Geopolitical Challenges of the Arab Spring: A Call for a joint EU-Turkish Agenda by Günter Verheugen This policy brief discusses the potential for cooperation between Turkey and the... -
Message from Ergun Kirlikovali , President ATAA
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsErgun Kirlikovali is one of the founders and long standing member of Turkish Forum – Dunya Turkleri Birligi Advisory Board. We wish him Good-luck, and we will support his actions ... -
Turkey needs to devise a 2015 strategy
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsThe recent step by France with respect to the 1915 incidents represents a great victory for the Armenians before 2015, the 100th anniversary of the incidents. -
Killer freeze hits Europe
Posted on January 31, 2012 | 1 CommentBelow zero: Snow falls on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue. Turkey was paralysed by the blizzard, and elsewhere in Europe the freezing temperatures proved deadly. Picture: AFP Source: AFP FREEZING weather has... -
Expats Face Confusing New Law to Buy Insurance in Turkey
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsBy SUSANNE FOWLER ISTANBUL — Expatriates living in Turkey scrambled this week to try to fulfill a new requirement that foreign residents register and pay for national health insurance by... -
Boğaziçi Starbucks’ta Şenlik Var!
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsInterview with the Starbucks occupants at Istanbul Boğaziçi University from our correspondent in Istanbul Josef Yusuf The occupation of Starbucks at the public Boğaziçi University has been going on for over... -
Tiger Turkey at the crossroads
Posted on January 28, 2012 | No CommentsThe country is one of success stories of the last decade, but is its increasingly autocratic government slowly threatening progress? Patrick Cockburn In the tea houses of Istanbul the mood... -
Turkey extends grip on armed forces
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 1 CommentTurkey’s government has been stepping up its efforts to arrest and prosecute dozens of army generals accused of a military coup plot. The former head of the Turkish armed forces... -
In the past Turkey was a gendarmerie state: Now it is a police state
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 1 CommentGulenists and the AKP will close the BDP, the main Kurdish party By Dr Aland Mizell: While most of the world is busy focusing on the Arab Spring, a possible... -
Turkey booming as EU continues to languish
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No CommentsAs Europe continues to grapple with its economic crisis, Turkey appears to be slowing its move toward EU membership. The economy is booming, and as it strengthens relationships in the... -
Council of Europe Criticizes Turkey’s Judiciary
Posted on January 25, 2012 | 1 CommentThe criticism comes as two of the main opposition parties claim the government is using the judiciary to silence opposition in the country. In a detailed report, the Council of... -
How Turks eased hunger of our Famine
Posted on January 24, 2012 | No CommentsBy Ken Sweeney Entertainment Editor A TURKISH film that tells of how the Ottoman Empire sent food aid to Ireland at the height of the Famine will begin shooting here this July.... -
Erdogan Seeks to Dispel Cancer Rumors
Posted on January 21, 2012 | No CommentsBy Ayla Albayrak Associated Press Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, underwent laparoscopic surgery on Nov. 26, 2011, to remove what a physician later said were noncancerous intestinal polyps.... -
US government hits Megaupload with mega piracy indictment
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsSeven executives charged as filesharing site shut down over accusations they cheated copyright holders out of $500m • Explainer: a guide to understanding Sopa • Clay Shirky: Pipa would create a consumption-only... -
Eutelsat drops Kurdish Roj TV
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsWritten by: Julian Clover Eutelsat has suspended satellite carriage of Roj TV after a Copenhagen court ruled the channel to be a vehicle of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK... -
French Legislators oppose Armenian genocide bill
Posted on January 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe Associated Press PARIS — A Senate panel says it would be unconstitutional for France to make it illegal to deny that the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks... -
Istanbul blackout leaves millions in dark
Posted on January 15, 2012 | No CommentsBy Ivan Watson and Yesim Comert, CNN January 14, 2012 — Updated 1339 GMT (2139 HKT) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Millions are left without power in Istanbul Istanbul is Turkey’s largest city... -
New legislation could lead to emission tests on Bosphorus vessels
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsNew legislation could lead to emission tests on Bosphorus vessels 11 Jan 2012 – Environment Sunset on the European side of the Bosphorus, Istanbul. Image: Seha Islam | Wikimedia Commons... -
Turkey’s Government Should Push for More Reform After Curbing Military’s Power
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsA Game of Turkey By ANDREW FINKEL Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, right, with military leaders at a ceremony in Ankara on Dec. 15.Burhan Ozbilici/Associated PressPrime Minister Tayyip Erdogan... -
Time for Turkey to question its militarist culture
Posted on January 11, 2012 | No CommentsThe sight of a general like İlker Başbuğ being tried in a civil court is leading to a reappraisal of the army’s role in Turkish society Kaya Genç guardian.co.uk Turkey’s...
