Are armed pro-government vigilantes rising in Turkey?
Source:BBC news Date:02Feb2018
How can you tell if a country is suffering from mass hysteria and mental delusion? Read this article. Armed groups are mushrooming in the Islamist-nationalist segment of the society, threatening
Could Abdullah Gul be the unexpected saviour of Turkey’s opposition?
Source:Middle East Eye Date:30Jan2018
In the last days of 2017, a new state of emergency decree, providing immunity to civilians who took part in suppressing the July 2016 coup attempt against the Turkish government, triggered an
With more Islamic schooling, Erdogan aims to reshape Turkey
Source:Reuters Date:25Jan2018
Reuters tells the story of forced Sunnification of Turkish youth and its sad results: Only 18 percent of applicants from religious schools earned places on full degree courses at
‘Things will get worse in 2018 with continued arrests and purges’
Source:Ahval News Date:01Jan2018
Howard Eissenstat, an associate professor at the history department of St. Lawrence University and a research assistant at Washington D.C.-based think-tank Project on Middle Eastern Democracy
Erdogan Trains His Broom on a Sweep of Turkey’s Governing Party
Source:New York Times Date:27Dec2017
Erdogan’s reform efforts in AKP are likely to fail, because the main problem lies with his policies, not the rank-and file. By the way, the party is losing support big time: Mr. Erdogan
US national security adviser: Qatar and Turkey are new sponsors of radical ideology
Source:The National Date:13Dec2017
This article requires little comment. Hear it from the highest USA source: Turkey is a threat. The other model that Mr McMaster identified with the Brotherhood is Turkey’s AKP. “By operating
Stung by secularism, now defending it: A Muslim feminist worries about Erdogan’s ‘new Turkey’
Source:cbcnews Date:03Nov2017
This is a story of how AKP’s authoritarian Islamism is losing it support: Sonmez worries the conservative government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan — which women like her helped elect — is
Turkey Fifteen Years After: The AKP regime’s power as context shaping
Source:The Turkey Analyst Date:17Sep2017
This excellent article explains how AKP’s true power lays in defining and shaping the national narrative. The party essentially decides what can and cannot be debated. Every topic of national
Erdogan shakes up Turkey’s ruling party with eye on next election
Source:Financial Times Date:30Aug2017
I’ve argued since the rigged referendum that AKP’s irreversible decline had started. This article provides support for my view: “AK love is 16 years old,” they declared, using the
Turkey’s attacks on women wearing shorts
Source:MacLeans Press Date:13Aug2017
One of the fundamental principles of modern democracy , that of gender equality is in jeopardy in Turkey, as AKP enables Islamist conservatives to push women out of the public space.