Free Movement for Turkish Citizens in Europe: A Dream come True?
24.04.2016. Turkey-European Union. Turkey would rescind its commitments if the EU does not abide by the terms of the agreement concluded in March over the migration crisis, tells Ankara. Yet one of...
View ArticleTurkish purges target anybody anywhere: the exemplary case of Nazli Iliçak
26.07.2016. Turkey . After the military, the judges, the civil servants, the teachers and the diplomats, an arrest warrant was issued against 42 journalists, including high media profile personality...
View ArticleWhen Turkey talks about democracy, the West hears “democratorship”
11.08.2016 • Turkey • Whether the issue is the exact meaning of the 15th July attempted coup, or the measures implemented in response to it, for the past month, Turkey and the West have embarked on a...
View ArticlePutin and Erdogan, the dissimilar twins…
31. 09. 2016. Turkey-Russia. Portrait of two men with very similar rhetoric and style of power, but whose background and personalities have little resemblance.After a period of major tensions due to...
View ArticleAfter the failed military coup, here comes Erdogan’s civil coup
15.10.2016. Turkey. The goal is to set up a tailor-made political system that will suit him.The Turkish people took to the streets and defeated the military forces involved in the coup, who had been...
View ArticleCan Turkey actually bring back the death penalty?
18.11.2016. Turkey. “We shall bring back the death penalty” – President Erdogan pledged. The thing is, the AKP Party does not hold a sufficient majority to do this…After the deliberations, the...
View ArticleThere may be a better idea than the EU’s freeze of negotiations with Turkey
3.12.2016 . European Union – Turkey After the Turkish President announced he would call for a referendum on the accession process to the European Union, the EU Parliament voted a resolution calling...
View ArticleErdogan: Aspiring to complete power
18.03.2017 . Turkey The new Presidential system that Parliament is about to adopt bears no resemblance to the French or American systems, but rather to the semi-dictatorial or dictatorial regimes which...
View ArticleSomething France could learn from Turkey: veiled women don’t necessarily...
01.04.2017 . France-TurkeyMaking Islam a political option plays into the hands of separatists.Wearing the veil is a means of affirming one’s religious faith. Some French politicians suggest that it is...
View Article“To what extent, Erdogan, who acts like a dictator, really pulls all the...
25.09.2017 . Turkey“The only really powerful ideology in Turkey is Statism. Statism always wins over Kemalism and Islamism, which are nothing more than a facade” according to the turkish intellectual...
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