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.
December 10, 2013
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”?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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