December 10, 2013

Erdoğan's way worries and puzzles

Yavuz Baydar

“The real challenge to the legacy of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Turkish political landscape now comes from Erdoğan himself as he has been rapidly moving from a progressive stand through which he was able to appeal to a broad-based electorate to an authoritarian conservative platform with a strong dominance of political Islam,” argued Abdullah Bozkurt in a very passionate article in Today's Zaman yesterday.

A little fairness, please!

Ekrem Dumanlı

Please, take a deep breath and take a trip back to a short time ago. What do you remember of the "Justice and Development Party (AK Party)-Gülen movement disagreement”?

Votes of religious orders and communities

Mümtazer Türköne

Religious orders are banned in Turkey under laws that were passed initially during the establishment of the republic.

System and the facts

Tuğba Aydın

The closure of prep schools continues to be on the main agenda of the country even after a month, and columnists discuss the issue and the Turkish education system in their columns.

Turkish PM on uncertain footing as elections loom

Suzan Fraser, AP

After dominating Turkish politics for a decade, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is entering election season on uncertain footing - without the support of key groups that had powered his previous electoral wins and facing divisions within his own party.

CHP says received no message from Fethullah Gülen

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has once more stated that its dialogue with the Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen movement had no difference from the dialogue that it has with other different segments of the society.

Erdoğan game plans have faltered

Abdullah Bozkurt

The real challenge to the legacy of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Turkish political landscape now comes from Erdoğan himself as he has been rapidly moving from a progressive stand through which he was able to appeal to a broad-based electorate to an authoritarian conservative platform with a strong dominance of political Islam.