February 2, 2015

Turkey, quo vadis?

Felix Kaiza*

Indigenous African Knowledge has it that the ear that will go deaf does not respond to medicine. This seems to sum up well the recurrent trend of events in the running of Turkish affairs under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The world says, "Your king is naked"

Ali H. Aslan

The reports issued last week by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Freedom House attest to the fact that Ankara's widespread anti-democratic practices in 2014 have significantly undermined Turkey's international position and image.

Ex-military intel chief: MİT prepared Tahşiyeciler report long before Gülen’s speech

The former intelligence director of the Turkish General Staff, Lt. Gen. İsmail Hakkı Pekin, has said the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has kept the al-Qaeda-linked Tahşiyeciler group under observation since 2004 and sent a report to the police intelligence department as early as February 2008 -- before a speech denouncing the group by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen in 2009 which was used as evidence for his arrest warrant.