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Mar 17, 2013 | The Paradox of Religion In Erdogan’s Turkey için yorumlar kapalı
In a country where there seems to be a mosque on almost every corner, it sounds overblown to claim that pious Muslims are oppressed in Turkey. But since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power over a decade ago, it has been the party line to accuse Kemalist ideology as being Islamophobic and responsible for oppressing and discriminating against practicing Muslims in state, business, and personal affairs.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/religion-turkey-akp-islamists-zaman-gulen-dagi.html#ixzz2OaHEU2Zg
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Mar 15, 2013 | Erdogan Set To Be Turkey’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister için yorumlar kapalı
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan completed his first ten years in office today [March 15] while resting at his Istanbul home since he called sick in with flu on Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/edrogan-prime-minister-turkey-10-years-in-office.html#ixzz2OaGt4iyc
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Mar 10, 2013 | Davutoglu Invokes Ottomanism As a New Order for Mideast için yorumlar kapalı
Speaking of the international order or lack thereof has always been controversial. For Turkey to challenge the international order, however, carries some real risks — simply because it’s a NATO member country, and its objections raise questions as to whether it’s proposing an alternative foreign policy to this military bloc’s generally perceived worldview, and if so, whether it is diverging in its perception of security issues from the rest. NATO is also the most significant alliance Turkey has, anchoring it in the West.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/turkey-davutologu-ottoman-new-order-mideast.html#ixzz2OaGSc4UG
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Mar 7, 2013 | Turkey Upgrades Palestinian Ties için yorumlar kapalı
After the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency broke the news on Tuesday, March 5, that Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, Turkey’s consul general in Jerusalem, will be accredited as Turkey’s ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, it became obvious that for the foreseeable future it will not be possible to speak of any kind of normalcy in Turkish-Israeli relations.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/turkey-diplomatic-recognition-palestine-abbas-jerusalem.html#ixzz2OaG6zKE3
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Mar 6, 2013 | Kurdish MP Displays Turkish Unity Abroad için yorumlar kapalı
Turkish government’s peace initiative to solve Turkey’s Kurdish issue has been moving forward without a break since members of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) talked to Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader on the island of Imrali, in late December 2012 to discuss cooperation on bringing the bloodshed to an end.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/esat-canan-bdp-saudi-turkish-kurdish-unity-peace.html#ixzz2OaFV5Z5i
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Mar 5, 2013 | Media Pushes Back On Erdogan Pressure için yorumlar kapalı
The most troubling part of it all was that no one was surprised that Derya Sazak, the executive editor of Milliyet daily, might have walked out of his job under government pressure as a result of publishing one of the bigger scoops in a long time. Namik Durukan, the daily’s long time correspondent on Kurdish affairs reported on Feb.26th the notes of the meeting between imprisoned Kurdistan Worker’s Party leader Abdullah Ocalan, and the three members of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party during their visit to Imrali on Feb, 23. Like it or not, people had a chance to learn about the inside dynamics of Ocalan’s control of this government initiated peace talks with the Kurds, and what role he thinks he has in all of this. But Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan got furious by media exposure, and trashed it by saying “damn your journalism!”
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/milliyet-protest-erdogan-media-pressure-ocalan.html#ixzz2OaFAgWRW
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Mar 4, 2013 | Ocalan Scoop Stirs Turkish Media için yorumlar kapalı
It’s long been said: “Don’t kill the messenger,” and since Namik Durukan of Milliyet daily reported what was discussed between imprisoned Kurdistan Worker’s Party leader Abdullah Ocalan and the three members of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party during their visit to Imrali — part of the ruling party’s effort to finding a solution to Turkey’s Kurdish problem — he has created a storm of perceptions and reactions to his professionalism.
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/abdullah-ocalan-pkk-tukey-kurdish-peace-process-journalist.html#ixzz2OaEnfZpj
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Mar 3, 2013 | Erdogan Slammed for Comments On Zionism için yorumlar kapalı
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks equating “Zionism” to a “crime against humanity” at the Fifth Global Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations on Feb. 28 received strong reactions from the U.N. secretary-general, United States and Israel. His remarks, however, supplement what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a special session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Feb. 6. “In the course of the 65 years since the establishment of [Israel], it has imposed war against the people of Palestine and the regional countries,” Ahmadinejad said. “Hearing the name of Zionist regime is today synonymous with war, death and bloodshed.” And Erdogan’s remarks were, “It’s necessary that we must consider — just like Zionism or anti-Semitism or fascism — Islamophobia as a crime against humanity.”
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/erdogan-zionism-comments-turkey-pm-reactions.html#ixzz2OaEOEmrd
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