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Saturday, October 10, 2015

AKP State cannot prevent #AnkaraExplosion Instead starts TOTAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP

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Two explosions shook a road junction in the center of the Turkish capital Ankara on Oct 10, causing many casualties including fatalities, ahead of a “peace” meeting
More than 80 dead in Ankara blasts
Two explosions at a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara kill at least 86 people, with the pro-Kurdish HDP party saying it was targeted.

Turkey’s most famous author talks about highs and lows, still having a bodyguard and finding inspiration for his new novel on the streets of Istanbul

From my hotel room in the centre of Istanbul, where I have come to interview Turkey’s best-known novelist, Orhan Pamuk, I look out at a huge, gaping hole. The opposite side of it forms a cliff perhaps 50 metres high. At the top is a row of slender town houses, built to accommodate poor Christian families in the mid-19th century. They teeter on the brink, their scale and form a world away from the shopping mall planned for the vast space beneath.

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#AnkaraBombing Look at the fascist’s sly smile when asked if the minister will resign due to the security flaws

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Lies… lies… ” U.S. denies reaching agreement with Turkey on Syria ‘safe zone’

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 U.S. denies reaching agreement with Turkey on Syria ‘safe zone’
Hurriyet Daily News
The U.S. State Department denied there was an agreement between Washington and Ankara on terms for a “safe zone” inside northern Syria where the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants would be …
US denies report of agreement with Turkey over Syrian ‘safe zone’Middle East Eye
The U.S. State Department denied there was an agreement between Washington and Ankara on terms for a “safe zone” inside northern Syria where the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants would be kept out
A senior leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said peace negotiations were the “only choice” for an end to the Kurdish problem, in an interview on Aug. 11.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blamed the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which he said was being controlled by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), for attempting to hamper Turkey’s growth with its stance targeting his aspirations for an unencumbered presidential system
The outlawed far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) group aims to destabilize Turkey by targeting the country’s key institutions and carrying out assassinations of top officials, Turkish security sources have said
Although the leaders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) failed to produce a breakthrough on a coalition agreement at their Aug. 10 meeting, they made progress on content
A senior Hamas leader is set to arrive in Turkey for a meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, amid a flurry of regional contacts made by Hamas that has particularly intensified after the recent nuclear deal between Iran and Western powers
Alevi organizations have issued a joint press statement after the threatening recent “X” marking of a number of Alevi homes in Istanbul’s Üsküdar district, saying “a country where Alevis are threatened will be safe for no one.”




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Friday, July 3, 2015

Turkey’s ambiguous war-mongering over Syria continues while coalition talks will not result before Ramadan ends…

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The U.S.’s annual human rights report on Turkey has slammed a series of violations over the past year, focusing particularly on the judiciary, law enforcement agencies, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly
A report adopted by the Council of Europe (CoE) on June 24 says media transparency should be promoted, stressing the importance of freedom of expression and media pluralism for a functioning democracy
As ISIL militants plant mines on the Syrian border facing Turkey, the Turkish military has reinforced its presence on the other side of the barbed wire border amid a fresh political debate between the government and the opposition on taking military action in its neighbor.
Turkey’s Council of State has insisted on its earlier cancelation of expropriations in Istanbul’s controversial Tarlabaşı urban transformation project, in a key ruling that the case’s lawyer says will set an example for similar projects in the future
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) has decided to nominate its Istanbul deputy Şafak Pavey, the first disabled female member elected to Turkish Parliament, as their candidate for the office of deputy parliament speaker
Turkey is ready to take “all measures” to protect its borders and beyond and has concluded the necessary preparations to this end, Turkey’s prime minister has said, disregarding comments that a “lame-duck” government would not be that willing to act militarily
Turkey’s government wants more active military action to support the Free Syrian Army (FSA) against the regime, Kurdish and jihadist forces in Syrian territory, but the military is reluctant to do so, playing for time as the country heads for a new coalition government, official sources told the Hürriyet Daily News
In response to claims that Turkey would be conducting a cross-border military operation in Syria, the Turkish FM said any necessary announcements about the issue would be made after the National Security Council (MGK) meeting
Policy Brief (German Marshall Fund of the United States) June 23, 2015 Galip Dalay * Political identities and proximity on significant policy issues will be decisive in the formation of Turkey’s next government. But this process takes place in a highly polarized context, a perilous feature of Turkey’s politics in recent years. The next government […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan keeps on using divisive and discriminatory rhetoric:
Turkey has an authoritarian political culture that lacks cultural mechanisms against authoritarian tendencies, according to a prominent scholar. ‘Therefore a coalition is the best political solution for Turkey,’ says Professor Yılmaz Esmer
Turkey’s election and the Kurdish peace process: what now?

The post-election landscape in Turkey raises new challenges in the search for a lasting settlement of the conflict between Turks and Kurds.

The peace process in relation to Turkey’s Kurdish minority was at the heart of the country’s general elections on 7 June 2015. It will be a leading item for the coalition talks between parties prior to the formation of a new government. In turn that government will have to decide whether to continue talking to Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) and figurehead for many of Turkey’s Kurds.

The MHP and the HDP deputies will seat closely in parliament as the two parties secured 80 seats alike in the June 7 general elections
Republican People’s Party parliamentary speaker candidate Deniz Baykal paid courtesy visits to leaders of the three other political parties elected to parliament in the June 7 election on June 26, only a few days before the procedure for the parliament speaker’s election kicks off
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has vowed that his party will “not be revanchist” in the event of a coalition government with the Justice and Development Party (AKP), as hints rise that negotiations for a “grand coalition” will start in Turkey
An Istanbul court has postponed the trial of 35 members of a Beşiktaş football fan group, çArşı, who are accused of organizing a plot to topple the government during the 2013 Gezi Park protests
A recently published book has revealed tortures and pressures LGBT inmates face in Turkey.

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