May 31, 2014

‘Dictatorship based on Shariah'

Mümtazer Türköne

Some pro-government newspapers have been using the above phrase in their headlines lately, in an “it's come to this” sense.

455 water wells opened in Pakistan thanks to Kimse Yok Mu

As part of a campaign launched by well-known Turkish charity organization Kimse Yok Mu a total of 455 water wells were drilled in separate parts of Pakistan in two years.

Erdoğanists' double discourse

İhsan Yılmaz

Some members of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government, Justice and Development Party (AKP) members and their staunch supporters in the media have increasingly been using double discourse and the discrepancy between what they say in English and Turkish is widening.

Envoy: US does not want to get involved in family fight

US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone has said that the US does not want to get involved in Turkey's “family fight” between government officials and what the government calls a “parallel structure” nested within the state.