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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Street views from the anniversary of Atatürk’s death #10Kasım

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Turkey remembers Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on his death anniversary

Thousands flocked to the mausoleum of the Turkish Republic’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in Ankara to commemorate the leader who passed away 77 years ago on Nov. 10

In Photos: Turkey marks the 77th anniversary of Atatürk’s death with commemorations across the country

Turkey has marked the 77th anniversary of the death of its founding father with official and public commemorations across the country

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VIDEO: Turkish General Staff releases footage from the first anniversary of Atatürk’s death

The Turkish General Staff has released footage from the commemorations in Ankara on Nov 10, 1939, the day marking the first anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s death

EU report slams Turkey over rule of law, free speech

EurActiv.com

The EU accused Turkey on Tuesday (10 November) of backsliding on the rule of law, rights and the media, calling on the new government to take urgent action in a sensitive report that Brussels held back until after elections.

Court accepts indictment against dozens, including US-based scholar Gülen

An Istanbul court has accepted an indictment against 122 suspects, including U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen, former police chief Yurt Atayün and Emre Uslu, within the investigation into misconduct in a past probe, which led to various surveillance activities against hundreds of leading lawmakers, academics and journalists

Erdoğan calls for new constitution after stability heralded by elections

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has maintained that the Nov. 1 snap elections have ushered in four years of stability and called for reforms, including the making of a new constitution

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

#TurkeyElections A list of polls for Nov 1 election and more…

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Attacks on the Press Escalate Ahead of Turkish Elections

The Intercept by Roger Hodge

ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, Turkish riot police stormed the offices of Koza Ipek Holding, a media group in Istanbul housing the Bugun TV channel and the Bugunand Millet newspapers.

“Dear viewers,” a Bugun TV anchor casually announced during the early morning broadcast, “do not be surprised if you see police in our studio in the upcoming minutes.” Outside, police were leading journalists away in handcuffs, while citizens — many of them journalists who worked in the building — protested the dawn raid as police attempted to disperse the growing crowd with tear gas and water cannons.

Turkey election: Young voters want peace and influence

BBC News

Turkey election: Young voters want peace and influence
BBC News

… the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has pledged to create 700,000 new jobs every year. ”The youth issue has been a new battleground for politicians. But they don’t speak the same language as young people,” said Yoruk Kurtaran from Bilgi University.

HDP: Party of Turkey’s oppressed?

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Party supporters and pundits are confident of an electoral victory.

Beset by terror and crisis at home and war abroad, Turks prepare for a fateful choice

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

Turkey goes to the polls next Sunday riven by divisions, and with the ruling AKP desperate to exert authority

VIDEO: Turkey: ‘This is now a nervous country’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Turkey holds an election on Sunday – the second in five months – with the governing AK Party hoping to win back its majority.

Refugees merely ‘bargaining chip’ in shameful EU-Turkey deal

EurActiv.com

Richard Howitt is a Labour MEP for the East of England. He is the Socialists & Democrats group spokesperson on foreign affairs in the European Parliament and a member of the EU-Turkey Joint parliamentary committee.

VIDEO: Turkey: ‘This is now a nervous country’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Turkey holds an election on Sunday – the second in five months – with the governing AK Party hoping to win back its majority.

The European Court of Human Rights violates my rights

open Democracy News Analysis – by Vicken Cheterian

The EHCR has upheld the right of the Turkish politician Dogu Perincek to deny the Armenian genocide. It’s a bad decision with dangerous implications.

On 15 October 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made a controversial ruling: Switzerland had violated Dogu Perincek’s right to freedom of speech. Perincek is a Turkish politician who made a series of provocative speeches in Switzerland saying there was “no Armenian genocide”; this historical event in the Ottoman empire in 1915 and after was an “imperialist lie”. Swiss courts condemned him under anti-racist laws. In its decision, the ECHR considered that the Swiss courts had “censured (Perincek) for having simply expressed an opinion divergent from those in Switzerland.”

No, EU, Turkey is not safe for everyone

open Democracy News Analysis – by Emma Sinclair-Webb

“Human rights and the rule of law in Turkey are at the worst level I’ve seen in the 12 years I’ve worked on Turkey’s human rights.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Friday prayer in Istanbul. Demotix/ Sahan Nuhoglu. All rights reserved.(Istanbul)–As the EU bends over backward to get Turkey to accept a deal to prevent Syrian and other refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants from leaving its shores or crossing its western borders, it’s worth thinking hard about what’s at stake.

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.

In Photos: Turkey celebrates Republic Day against backdrop of political turbulence

Turkey marked the 92nd anniversary of the Republic on Oct. 29 with celebrations across the country. The ceremonies took place against the backdrop of political turbulence ahead of the snap general election on Nov. 1

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Erdoğan of course knows better, challenges US, claims PYD is terrorist… In the mean time, AKP’s election jingle banned due its religious exploitation…

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US is wrong, PYD is terrorist, says Turkish President Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reacted to a recent statement by a U.S. official who said Washington does not consider the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), a terrorist organization.

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board bans AKP poll jingle on CHP appeal

Turkey’s Supreme Election Board has decided to ban a campaign jingle of the AKP prepared for the upcoming snap elections, citing “abuse of faith.”

Turkey’s Vote and Beyond attracts even more volunteers for Nov 1 election

The president of Vote and Beyond has said the group is receiving more requests from volunteers for the snap poll on Nov.1.

AKP Vice President Threatens 100 HDP Supporters

Bianet :: English

AKP Vice President Selçuk Özdağ threatened 100 HDP supporters who said “The Palace will be Overthrown, People will Win!” .

HDP deputy probed for ‘making terrorism propaganda’ in tweet

An investigation has been launched against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy İbrahim Ayhan on a charge of “making terrorism propaganda.”

Turkish leaders emphasize terror attacks in messages for Eid

Political leaders and the Turkish president have conveyed their messages for the Feast of Sacrifice, which starts on Sept. 24 and lasts for four days, all putting an emphasis on the terror attacks towards the country’s security forces in the past two months.

CİZRE REPORT OF MAZLUMDER: “The State Violated the Right to Life by Punishing Collectively”

Bianet :: English

MAZLUMDER prepared a report about the curfew in Cizre: “Clashes between security forces and YDG-H resulted in the violation of rights.”

Rise in armored water cannon, police carrier acquisitions pads national budget

The Finance Ministry has announced a dramatic rise in vehicle acquisitions by the public sector in the first eight months of the year was mainly caused by a rise in the acquisitions of armored water cannons, armored carriers and helicopters by police forces due to escalating violence in the country

Turkey’s political parties focus on key battleground provinces for Nov 1 polls

As Turkey heads to a reelection on Nov. 1 following the June 7 polls, which failed to produce a single-party or coalition gov’t, the country’s political parties have shifted their focus to provinces where they narrowly lost seats in the last election.

‘Cizre decision’ sparks political debate on poll security

Controversy rages after Cizre’s electoral board says ballot boxes will need to be moved to safer places during the Nov 1 election

Relocations of polling stations in Turkey

Bitlis Governor Ahmet Çınar has asked the Provincial Election Board whether certain polling stations can be relocated at certain provincial and district centers.

HDP co-chair suggests AKP should use ‘May God forgive me’ as election slogan

It would be better for the AKP to use the slogan “Tövbe Estağfurullah” (“May God forgive me”) rather than “Bismillah” (“In the name of God”) for its upcoming electoral campaign, HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said on Sept. 24.

No ballot boxes in three neighborhoods, 23 villages of restive town in southeast Turkey

Citizens living in three neighborhoods and 23 villages of a restive district in Turkey’s southeast will only be able to vote in other neighborhoods for the Nov. 1 election following a decision by local authorities.

Uludere massacre caused by ‘erroneous’ intelligence: Report

The Uludere air raid, which left 34 villagers dead, was caused by “erroneous” intelligence Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), daily Cumhuriyet has alleged

Sources deny report claiming Uludere air strike caused by ‘erroneous’ intelligence

The Uludere air raid, which left 34 villagers dead, was caused by “erroneous” intelligence provided by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), daily Cumhuriyet has alleged, but official sources have denied the claim.

YPG not a terrorist organization for US, spokesman says

The U.S. does not consider the YPG, the armed wing of the Syrian Democratic Union Party, a terrorist organization, State Department Spokesperson has declared

AKP MP who incited anti-Hürriyet protesters requests personal security guard

AKP deputy Abdurrahim Boynukalın, who delivered a fiery speech addressing hundreds of protesters who attacked daily Hürriyet last week, has filed a request with the Ankara Governor’s Office to be assigned a personal security guard as he said he feels “under threat.”

Analyst: Turkey is not becoming pious, in fact it is moving away from religion

Volkan Ertit, an academic popularly known for his books ‘Secularism’ and ‘The Age of Concerned Conservatives,’ argues that Turkish people are becoming less pious

Governors denied hundreds of anti-terrorism operations

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) filed 290 requests for permits to conduct anti-terror operations in three Turkish provinces with the corresponding governor’s offices in 2014, with only eight of them receiving a positive response, daily Hürriyet has reported

Kremlinology alla Turca, or understanding in-house AKP politics

The political backstage of Ankara was stirred at lunchtime on Sept. 17, when President Tayyip Erdoğan paid an unplanned visit to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to perform Friday prayers together in the mosque inside the Çankaya prime ministerial – formerly presidential – compound on top of the capital’s Çankaya Hill.

Controversial AKP members pushed out of MP candidate list

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has surprised analysts by excluding a number of controversial figures from its candidate list for the Nov. 1 elections

HDP slams president, PM for ignoring Kurdish issue, hindering democracy

The Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has bitterly criticized both President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu for the stances they displayed during a mass “anti-terrorism” rally