EFDbackup: After 13 years of one party rule, the best they can offer: “If your parents fail to marry you, come to us, PM tells Turkish youth….

If your parents fail to marry you, come to us, PM tells Turkish youth

PM Davutoğlu said on Oct. 22 that the gov’t would help young people marry if their parents fail to do so, as part of his AKP’s “employment and entrepreneurship” plans

Arabic to be offered as second language in Turkish elementary schools

Elementary school students in Turkey will be given the option to choose Arabic as a second language as of the 2016-2017 school year, in addition to the already offered English, French and German

Gezi victim’s brother to address public for HDP

Mustafa Sarısülük, the brother of Ethem Sarısülük, who died during the Gezi Park protests in 2013 when a police officer shot him, will make the first televised speech for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on state-owned TRT channel on Oct. 25 as a candidate from the party

Stories of Ankara blast survivors

‘Everywhere there was the smell of ‘mangal’ (barbecue), the smell of burning flesh, burning people. There were brains, blood and hearts physically on the ground’

AKP narrows campaign focus as polls show little chance of single rule

In a bid to heighten its chances of forming a single-party government, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has narrowed its campaign focus to 40 provinces where it hopes to increase its seat totals in the last week before the Nov. 1 snap election

Old Turkish demons in new faces?

open Democracy News Analysis – by Karabekir Akkoyunlu

The ‘deep state’ meets Erdoğan’s ‘New Turkey’. The country’s resulting predicament is much more dangerous than two decades ago.

Hrant Dink..Adalet ( justice!) 8 years on, the government has failed to bring those responsible to justice. Demotix/J Kojak.One suicide bombing after another, Turkey’s public is growing accustomed to images of carnage that no longer originate from Syria or Iraq, but from their own capital. The twin blasts that killed at least 102 people at a peace rally in Ankara on 10 October follow a string of deadly explosions in Suruç in July and Diyarbakır in June, and claim the unenviable title of being Turkey’s deadliest terror attack from the Reyhanlı bombings of May 2013. The astonishing series of intelligence and security failures has cast in a critical spotlight the state’s ability or willingness to safeguard those citizens whom the government views as a threat to its rule.

EKİN KARACA IN MEDITERRANEAN FOR ELECTIONS: November 1 Elections: Political Atmosphere in Mediterranean

Bianet :: English

Prior to November 1 general elections, unemployment seems to be the central issue in the Mediterranean

President Erdoğan’s son denies claims he fled, saying he ‘didn’t teleport’ to Istanbul studio

The son of President Erdoğan denied reports he fled to Italy in a televised interview on Oct. 22, saying he “didn’t teleport” to private broadcaster A Haber’s studios in Istanbul

Alewi Discrimination Prominent in US Report

Bianet :: Englis

In Turkey section of International Religious Freedom report by the U.S., discrimination against Alewis and hate speech against Jews emphasized.

Election Predictions with Nine Surveys

Bianet :: English

Nine survey companies have announced their November 1 general election predictions.

CHP reveals ‘documents’ of collapsed PKK-gov’t talks

A leading figure from Turkey’s main opposition party displayed documents during a televised interview on Oct. 22 which he claimed to be identical to a protocol between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)

Turkish PM claims Oslo documents leaked by Gülen movement

The Oslo documents, revealing negotiations between the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), were made public by sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has claimed.

MHP leader warns of ‘chaos’ under single-party AKP rule after Nov. 1

Turkey’s nationalist opposition leader has given a stark warning a week before the Nov. 1 snap elections, suggesting the rise of the AKP to power as a single-party gov’t might lead to “chaos,” as it would encourage President Erdoğan to impose his aspirations for a presidential system.

AK Party’s Belgian campaign raises eyebrows

EurActiv.com

Many Turks living in Belgium have received postal mail from the AK Party of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, inviting them to vote in the 1 November election, offering benefits in exchange.

Violence Against Handicapped Women

Bianet :: English

According to Handicapped Woman Association’s report, especially mentally handicapped women are victims of violence, and perpetrators are usually the closest ones.

Columnist Threatens a Female Journalist Now

Bianet :: English

Star daily columnist Cem Küçük now threatens CNN Türk speaker Nevşin Mengü. Küçük threatened journalist Ahmet Hakan before.

Turkey’s interim passage to anarchy

open Democracy News Analysis – by Mohammed Ayoob

The current mayhem, if it continues, is likely to once again tempt the military top brass to stage a coup and take power in the name of restoring order as it has done several times earlier.

State funeral of colonel killed in combat with PKK, October 18. Demotix/Piero Castellano. All rights reserved. The twin bombings on October 10 at the Ankara Railway Station that left one hundred people dead were just the latest in a series of terrorist attacks that Turkey has suffered from recently. In addition, the civil war between the Kurdish PKK and the Turkish state has been renewed after a lapse of two years thus further adding to the mayhem, especially in the predominantly Kurdish populated areas in southeastern Turkey.

Turkey as a failed society

open Democracy News Analysis – by Can Semercioglu

A different kind of reality is both constructed and deployed, which effects a huge gulf in understanding between the pro-AKP and non-AKP masses.

Turkey issued a total media ban over Ankara bombings. Demotix/Sahan Nuhoglu. All rights resrved.The Ankara massacre that killed 102 people, many of whom are our friends, affected our lives as adversely as anything we have seen for a long time – but not exactly for everyone. Such slogans as “it’s time to re-unite,” or “we need unity and solidarity today” on the part of the AKP deputies and authorities (Justice and Development Party) no longer mean anything, even if we take them to be the mainly empty gestures that they are. They are unreal, because there is no unity in Turkey.

PM Writes a Letter to Sex Workers before the Elections

Bianet :: English

PM Davutoğlu sent a letter to Red Umbrella Association for sex workers. President of foundation Kemal Ördek said: “The important thing is paying attention to receivers ‘politically’.”

Shops torched in anti-terror protests in central Turkey were targeted: Owners

A number of local business owners of the stores torched in the Central Anatolian province of Kırşehir during nationwide anti-terror protests in early Sept. have said the perpetrators who carried out the attacks against the shops had specified their targets in advance, daily Hürriyet has reported.

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