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Saturday, June 3, 2017

A protester, Veli Saçılık, was the target rubber bullets:

Melda Onur‏ @meldaonur
Bu nasıl fotoğraf yahu! Bu devletin başbakanı, bakanı, emniyet genel müdürü falan zaten geçtim, polis dediğin insan evladı değil mi ya! http://pic.twitter.com/Ueu5dm1ozE

Despite brutal police attacks, Veli Saçılık continues to demand his job back, and "resist for, and on behalf of, humanity" @velisacilik http://pic.twitter.com/RttvF9MSwF

— BarışAkademisyenleri (@BarisAkademik) June 2, 2017

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New photo from Facebook June 03, 2017 at 12:34PM

Berlin’deki ABD konsolosluğuna ışık oyunu yapmış Greenpeace. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Friday, June 3, 2016

New photo from Facebook June 03, 2016 at 04:19PM

Reise saygısızlık yapmışlar. via @fakir_bey Oturma seviyesi yüzünden İsrail’le ilişkiler bozulmuştu zamanında. Hey gidi günler. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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the Genocide Bill probably crushed Erdoğan-Merkel refugee deals…

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Turkey recalls envoy in ‘genocide’ row

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Turkey recalls its ambassador in anger, after German MPs recognise the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as ‘genocide’.

Ties with Turkey can weather differences: Germany

German-Turkish relations are strong enough to withstand any differences in views, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said June 3, a day after parliament incurred Ankara’s wrath by passing a resolution recognizing the World War I-era killings of Ottoman Armenians as “genocide”

German Parliament Declares Armenian Deaths a Genocide, Angering Turkey

NYT > Turkey by By ALISON SMALE and MELISSA EDDY

Turkey’s prime minister had warned that the vote was a “real test of friendship.” The resolution is symbolic but fraught with historic resonance.

Three Turkish parties condemn Germany’s ‘Armenian genocide’ bill

Three Turkish parties at parliament condemned a June 2 resolution at Germany’s Bundestag recognizing the World War I-era killings of Ottoman Armenians as “genocide”

Clash Over Armenian Genocide Recognition

NYT > Turkey by By REUTERS

Turkey’s prime minister said relations between Berlin and Ankara “will be damaged” after Germany’s parliament voted to recognize the 1915 killing of Armenians by Turkish Ottomans as genocide.

Readers Comment on the Clash Over Recognition of Armenian Genocide

NYT > Turkey by By NICOLE FINEMAN and NATALIA V. OSIPOVA

Tensions between Germany and Turkey over the German recognition of the 1915 killings of Armenians as genocide sparked a heated online debate.

Turkey summons German charge d’affairs over ‘Armenian genocide vote’

Turkey summoned the German charge d’affairs in the absence of the ambassador after the approval of the “Armenian genocide” resolution at the Bundestag, according to Foreign Ministry sources.

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Whatever happens, Turkey’s new PM has one agenda: To make Erdoğan a President

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PM Yıldırım: Presidential System to be Adopted in This Country

The Prime Minister Yıldırım has said, “Whatever the constitution tells, de facto responsibility of the president has risen”, “The AKP will do that. It will make the new constitution and will adopt the presidential system in this country”.

We will bring presidential system to Turkey, says PM

New Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has once again vowed to adopt a presidential system and change the country’s constitution, which he slammed as a “coup constitution,” stressing the country’s laws had to adapt to realities

Turkey’s HDP sends photos of devastated Cizre to European lawmakers

Turkey’s Kurdish problem-focused opposition party has prepared a photo album showing traces of the conflict during curfews in the now-devastated Cizre district in the southeastern province of Şırnak and sent it to European lawmakers

Health minister says birth control concepts ‘history’ in Turkey

Health Minister Recep Akdağ has backed up President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent controversial remarks against birth control, saying critical statements from the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) are expressions of “ignorance.”

Turkey among top 5 violators of ILO conventions: DİSK

Turkey is one of the five worst performing countries in terms of violations of International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions, a report prepared by the research unit of the country’s Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK) has revealed

Turkey’s President and the ‘Treason’ of Family Planning

Global Voices Online by Arzu Geybullayeva

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Erdogan. Official Flickr, public domain.

Political cartoonist Carlos Latuff’s works compiled in Turkish edition

The world-renowned political cartoonist Carlos Latuff’s works have been edited and published in a new volume by Turkish publisher Rodeo

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New photo from Facebook June 03, 2016 at 12:04PM

Gündoğumu, Griffith Park, Los Angeles. via Reddit. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Filiz Taylan Yüzak (@ftaylanyuzak): Londra’da Izgara Peynirli Gurme Tost Deneyimi…

Jealous of HDP’s rising success, provocative ops by security forces in Şırnak #TurkeyElections #HDPlilerGÖZALTİNDA

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Incredible images of rally for @HDPonline in #Kurdish city of #Batman, ahead of #Turkey election v @BatmanHDP http://pic.twitter.com/Y1SH435TY6

— Joseph Willits (@josephwillits) June 2, 2015

In the new name of anti-terrorism 43 detained in Şırnak, most of whom are affiliated with HDP to be in charge of election duties. News in Turkish here

Turkish women turn their back in protest at Erdoğan

Thousands of Turkish women have posted their photos showing them turning their backs in protest at President Erdoğan’s latest rebuke targeting women

President Erdoğan accuses NYT, BBC and CNN of trying to weaken, divide Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused prominent international media institutions like the New York Times, CNN and the BBC of trying to weaken the country and then disintegrate it in line with instructions issued to them by what he called “the superior mind.”

VIDEO: ‘Fight’ for Kurdish identity in election

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The BBC’s Mark Lowen is in the Kurdish-majority city Diyarbakir as part of his election road trip.

Pro-Kurdish party at the heart of the Turkish elections: prospects for the peace process

open Democracy News Analysis – by Müjge Küçükkeleş

As has been seen clearly during this campaign period, the harsh rhetoric used by the AK Party and the HDP regarding one another has brought the negotiations to the edge of a total freeze.

The rise of the HDP – elections and democracy in Turkey

open Democracy News Analysis – by Harriet Fildes

“You are not only Turkish, Kurdish; not solely Armenian, Arab, Circassian, Georgian or Bosniak… Alevi, Sunni, Syriac, or Yazidi… Jewish, Hebrew, or Christian. You are all of them.”

Pro-Kurdish party seeks wider reach in Turkish vote

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

As Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday, HDP emerges as a crucial force in shaping post elections political scene.

Turkey leader sues over toilet claim

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is to sue the main opposition leader over claims his presidential palace has gold-plated toilet seats.

Turkey’s women struggle for equality

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Turkey’s women struggle for equality

Nationalist party leader demands social democrat votes

Turkey’s main nationalist party leader cast his eye on the votes of social democrats in Turkey’s northern province of Erzurum on May 30, a week before the June 7 parliamentary elections.

Cleric says Turkish women will be ‘halal’ for president: SP

Saadet Party has said that a cleric picked a quarrel by telling its female supporters that all Turkish women would be ‘halal for the president’ if the country switches to the presidential system

Posters call on believers to avoid voting in northern Turkey

People have been asked to avoid voting in the June 7 elections with posters that read “Do not vote and worship another creator but God”

Why Turkey’s elections could upend its politics – the Guardian briefing

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kate Lyons and Constanze Letsch

President Erdoğan has campaigned for the ruling AKP in the hope it will win enough seats to change the constitution and strengthen presidential powers

Turkey holds its parliamentary elections on Sunday 7 June. In Turkey’s last parliamentary elections, in 2011, 43 million of the country’s 50 million eligible voters came to the polling station. On Sunday, a similar number are predicted to turn out to elect 550 people to form the 25th parliament of Turkey. The parliament is known as the grand national assembly.

Election Manifest of AKP from the Year 2011:

Bianet :: English

Only 8 out of 36 promises have been carried out by AKP according to website Doğruluk Payı.

MHP head slams Turkish president on his bias in elections

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli said on June 3 President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had de facto stepped down from his presidency seat and was not a man of president post

Turkey’s main opposition alarmed over lack of electoral security

With only five days to go to the June 7 parliamentary election, Turkey’s main opposition party rang alarm bells about electoral security, suggesting that the election would be “at risk” if no measures are taken

Reading the Tea Leaves of the Turkish Election

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Policy Brief (German Marshall Fund of the United States) June 2, 2015 Soli Özel * For the first time in the AKParty’s long reign, the opposition is challenging the ruling party on the basis of existing economic conditions. If the HDP manages to pass the 10 percent threshold, this will not just bring a balance […]

CHP leader: Threat against journalist shows Erdoğan’s ‘impotence’

Main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed President Erdoğan for publicly and personally threatening the editor-in-chief of a newspaper that published video footage purportedly showing security forces discovering weapons being sent to Syria on trucks belonging to Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT).

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Davutoğlu says Intel trucks’ contents no one’s business, But one day he might have to explain it to ICC in The Hague…

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Intel trucks’ contents no one business, says PM

Questioning the content of trucks that were stopped by the gendarmerie while carrying “logistical assistance to Turkmens” in Syria last year was nobody’s business, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, drawing attention to the timing of publications accusing Turkey of delivering weapons to rebel groups in the neighboring country.

Turkey slams expulsion of Belgian-Turkish MP over ‘genocide denial’

Turkey has expressed serious concern that Mahinur Özdemir, a Belgian deputy of Turkish origin, has been expelled from her party for refusing to call the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians a “genocide,” calling on all Belgian political parties and institutions to act in common sense.

Divided Cyprus begins to build bridges

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Helena Smith in Nicosia

The new Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, says his community must regard their Greek neighbours on the island not as enemies but partners

All his life, Mustafa Akinci has worked towards peace. There has been hislanguage: a lexicon of feel-good words infused with the precision of a conflict-resolution professor. And there has been his belief that small things can lead to big things in his splintered country

OECD cuts Turkey’s growth outlook by 0.1 percent

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) cut Turkey’s growth forecast for 2015 to 3.1 percent from 3.2 percent, the organization said in a report released on June 3

Turkey annual inflation surges to highest level in 2015

Turkish annual inflation edged above 8 percent for the first time this May, data from the Turkish Statistics Agency (TÜİK) showed on June 3.

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