Two excellent articles on Turkey’s future
Source:European Council on Foreign Relations Date:04Jun2019
We’ve been wondering for a long time whether Turkey is capable of change. Two recent articles shed light on the question. The first is by Council on Foreign Relations:
Turkey’s democracy wakes up
Source:Brookings blog Date:25Apr2019
The fact that Erdogan has lost Ankara and Istanbul, after 25 years of de facto control of these two symbols of political and financial power, will give hope to a young generation of Turks who
Turkey remains 157th out of 180 countries in world press freedom index
Source:Stockholm Center for Freedom Date:19Apr2019
You can’t have economic development without democracy. You can’t have democracy without a free press and freedom expression. Ergo, you can’t have economic recovery in Turkey!
Turkey’s state of permanent crisis serves Erdogan
Source:The Arab Weekly Date:20Jan2019
In their 2018 book “How Democracies Die,” Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt noted that “blatant dictatorship — in the form of fascism, communism or military rule — has
CHP will find a Macron for Turkey, says senior journalist
Source:Hurriyet Daily News Date:12Feb2018
Commentary on main opposition party CHP is so rare, I couldn’t possibly miss this interview. Veteran journalist Mr Sedat Bozkurt says: If there will be a Turkish “Macron,” they will