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WFAE
March 28, 2018
“Pastor Brunson is being used as a political pawn by some elements of the Turkish government. These elements seek to undercut the longstanding partnership between the United States and Turkey, in which our two nations have enjoyed close diplomatic, economic, and military ties. It is vital that ourÃÂ ...
Yardbarker
March 27, 2018
Moreover, he adds that recent negotiations he had with Nike broke down because the corporation was scared of losing business in Turkey. The Turkey native is a fierce critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his regime. As a result, Kanter has been labeled a traitor in his home country andÃÂ ...
SLAM Online
March 27, 2018
New York Knicks center Enes Kanter is an outspoken critic of Turkey's political leadership, and as a result, he thinks “American companies are scared” to bring him onboard as an endorser of their products and services. The big fella is hiring the powerful agent Mark Bartelstein to see if he can help drum upÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
March 26, 2018
“Egypt's growing exports to Turkey is also a pointer that the government does not mix politics with economy,” Fahmy noted. She said that Egypt's political disagreements with Turkey have never affected the two countries' economic ties. “This proves that Egypt is open to all investors and committed to createÃÂ ...
Rudaw
March 25, 2018
The Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria issued symbolic accreditation for 95 imprisoned Turkish journalists to cover the Turkey-EU summit. The Association invited journalists who will be attending the summit to take a symbolic badge bearing the name and photograph of a Turkish colleague.
Deutsche Welle
March 23, 2018
But the Hamburg-based Turkey expert Yasar Aydin takes a more measured view. He says he doesn't currently see a protest wave sweeping through wide parts of Turkish society. As he explained in an interview with DW, people in Turkey are used to crossovers in the worlds of media, politics and business.
Jacobin magazine
March 23, 2018
The establishment of political autonomy in Rojava in 2012 gave both a political-moral and a military boost to the Kurdish movement in Turkey. The pro-Kurdish, leftist party HDP surged, and after the Turkish state opted for a more overtly authoritarian form of repression, Kurdish forces declared autonomy inÃÂ ...
The Daily Progress
March 23, 2018
Turkey's key media group to be sold to pro-Erdogan business ... ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's largest media group said Thursday it is in talks with a business group close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the sale of its ... "We are deeply concerned for the Turkish press and freedom of press.".
CNN
March 23, 2018
Washington (CNN) The US has dropped charges against 11 of the 15 bodyguards for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who were indicted after a ... The source said they are not aware of any political pressure having an impact on the decisions to dismiss charges as they were based on evidentiaryÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
March 22, 2018
To be clear, Western opposition to Turkey's direct involvement in the Syrian civil war reflects political concerns as opposed to genuine care for local communities or the war-torn country's stability. By extension, Turks do not mind this politically motivated smear campaign against the successful militaryÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
March 7, 2018
In the referendum, Turkish voters approved a package of constitutional changes handing wide-ranging executive powers to the president and also allowing the president to retain ties to a political party. The MHP has also worked with the AK Party on foreign policy issues, particularly since the July 2016ÃÂ ...
Kuwait News Agency
March 1, 2018
I decree: To cancel the procedure for signing the protocols 'On the establishment of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey' and 'On the development of relations between Armenia and Turkey", signed on October 10, 2009 in Zurich." He argued that Armenia has announced numerous times inÃÂ ...
Newsweek
March 1, 2018
Political dissidents who flee their countries to escape persecution do not always find safety in their newly adopted homelands. Many are targeted by repressive regimes that try to silence their critics from afar, sometimes even by putting their lives at risk. Dramatic abductions and assassinations of exiledÃÂ ...
Rudaw
March 1, 2018
The two Turkish leaders, Ataturk and Erdogan, will be remembered in history for two different things. The former will be remembered as the ... Because the bulk of Kurdish territory and population is located in Turkey, political changes in Turkey affect Turks and Kurds alike. The Kurdish fate depends on whatÃÂ ...
The Independent
February 28, 2018
I'm a human rights lawyer who travelled to Erdogan's Turkey to see his political opponent tried in court. ... Erdoğan: the face of the man labelled by the opposition as a “fake sultan” is plastered on advertising billboards, LED displays, and every lamppost on the main highways through the Turkish capital.
Sacramento Bee
February 28, 2018
The tense relations between Armenia and Turkey, which continues to deny that the then-Ottoman Empire committed a genocide of 1.5 million ... The divestment push has found more success at the University of California, which is reported to hold more than $70 million in Turkish bonds and investments.
CNN
February 28, 2018
Washington (CNN) Turkey's military incursion against Kurdish groups in Afrin, Syria, has helped bring US-backed ground offensives targeting ISIS to a near halt, multiple US officials tell CNN, putting the military campaign against the terror group at risk, an effort seen as one of the Trump administration'sÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
February 26, 2018
Long way to Afrin: Turkey's strategic refugee policy aimed at electoral hegemony and regional political ambitions ... The Turkish intervention is backed by the Free Syrian Army (FSA), comprised of several Syrian opposition groups such as the Islamic Ahrar Al-Sham and the Hamza Brigade. Turkey'sÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
February 21, 2018
ISTANBUL, Turkey – It was a fantastic day for Deniz Yucel, his loved ones, and Turkey's journalist community, when he was released last week, after spending more than a year in jail - during which time he was not even formally indicted. But the sequence of events leading to the dual German-TurkishÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
January 27, 2018
Next month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's jet will be the first to land at the airport — the latest in a string of high-profile public projects that he ... Experts say Erdogan hopes to secure not just economic growth but also his position as Turkey's most important leader since the modern republic'sÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
January 27, 2018
Even if one knows nothing about the political tendencies of Turkish Cypriot political parties, associations, labor unions, TV stations, radio stations and newspapers, looking how they describe themselves or write their reports, statements and news bulletins is ... As for Turkey, Turkish Cypriots are just Turks.
Hurriyet Daily News
January 26, 2018
As Turkey's 2019 presidential elections approach, many have been wondering if anyone stands a chance against incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who won every election he entered since 2002. Circulation of power, which is routine in democracies, has not taken place in Turkey for the past 16ÃÂ ...
CNN International
January 24, 2018
Another former ambassador to Turkey, Eric Edelman of the US, said the currents running through Turkish domestic politics are tightly intertwined with ... They're holding Americans hostage," he said, referring to Andrew Brunson, a pastor from North Carolina arrested and charged by the Turks withÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
January 19, 2018
The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus held a general election on Jan. 7 and the Turkish Cypriot people defined the size of the political parties. No one has the right to say the people made the wrong choices. It was a free and fair election that conformed to the legal framework. Although the new electionÃÂ ...
The Economist
January 18, 2018
For most of its history, the Diyanet has accommodated the politics of the secular establishment, embracing a version of Islam at ease with modernity, and keeping fundamentalism at bay. (Support for sharia in Turkey is considerably lower than in most of the Muslim world.) Under AK, however, it seems lessÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
January 12, 2018
Alpay, 73, is a political scientist who wrote a column for the now closed staunchly pro-Gulen Zaman newspaper. Mehmet Altan, 64, has written books on Turkish politics. His brother Ahmet, a novelist and journalist for some of Turkey's leading dailies, is also being held in the same case, but has not had aÃÂ ...
The Nation.
January 12, 2018
Ankara—Politics always involves a tension between laws and leadership, accountability and action. Emergencies occur, the ship of state needs to negotiate the storms of unexpected events; there is a need to act. For those who believe in the priority of rights as an ideal of politics, this can be a problem.
FRANCE 24
January 11, 2018
The jailed co-leader of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party has said he is not planning to run in any further elections, effectively ending a political career that threatened to shake Turkish politics. Selahattin Demirtas is the best-known face of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a passionate speaker whoÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
January 10, 2018
A possible alliance between the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) hints at a major shift in Turkey's political culture ahead of the 2019 elections, experts have said. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday welcomed MHP Chairman DevletÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 9, 2018
Efforts are set to begin on forming a coalition government in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus after the rightwing National Unity party won parliamentary elections but failed to secure a majority in parliament. In a setback for forces seeking to reunite the island's feuding ethnic communities, the UBP wonÃÂ ...
Tablet Magazine
January 9, 2018
The purpose was to put an end to the presence of all three Christian peoples in the territory that became the Republic of Turkey. The politics of the genocide were not the outgrowth of a robust nationalist ideology or tradition. (Turkish nationalism has always struggled to reconcile the need for an atavisticÃÂ ...
Business Insider
January 9, 2018
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday condemned a U.S. sanctions-busting case against a Turkish bank executive as a "political coup attempt" and a joint effort by the CIA and FBI to undermine Ankara. A U.S. jury last week convicted the executive of Turkey's majority state-owned Halkbank of evadingÃÂ ...
Kathimerini
December 31, 1999
Main opposition New Democracy on Tuesday described as “opportunistic” the government's handling of the issue concerning the eight Turkish servicemen that Ankara wants extradited to Turkey. On Saturday, the government submitted a request for the cancellation of a decision by a relevant committee ofÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
November 4, 2017
Women of Turkey's political parties: More female involvement in politics ... Yet, the country still has the lowest number of females in politics. .... is to conduct activities that address the problems of women in Turkish society and ...
Deutsche Welle
November 4, 2017
Another German national who had been held in Turkey for "political ... The German Foreign Ministry says a German-Turkish national jailed in ...
Los Angeles Times
November 3, 2017
Hartson hopes that the affiliation with “The Young Turks,” on which Uygur ... political action committee associated with The Young Turks network that is ... in politics was the root cause of other problems in society, she said.
Trend News Agency
November 1, 2017
"The development of these relations from the political and economic points ... The sixth meeting of the Azerbaijan-Turkey High-Level Strategic ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 1, 2017
Turkey and Iran have endorsed Russia's proposal to host talks ... in Sochi to try to move the war-torn country toward a political settlement.
Channel NewsAsia
November 1, 2017
'Political' trial of Turkey opposition daily staff resumes ... The trial also resumed Tuesday of celebrated Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan in which ...
Anadolu Agency
November 1, 2017
Kurds should not do politics over oil in northern Iraqi region like they have done over the past 100 years, according to spokesman of Turkey's ...
Daily Sabah
October 29, 2017
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan celebrated Saturday the Republic Day and the 94th anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey ...
Hurriyet Daily News
October 27, 2017
It is the new Turkish party that people have been talking about for so long. Whether it injects hope into Turkey's depressive political climate remains to be seen. ... Could the İP become the new hope for Turks depressed by the threat ... thus providing center-right politics in Turkey with a second home, would ...
BBC News
October 27, 2017
Turkish-born artist Guney Soykan grew up in a home where politics and news were always ... Have the changes in Turkey's democracy been part of that ... Because of constant political volatility, many past leaders didn't get the ...
Voice of America
October 27, 2017
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accused by critics of ... to shake up Turkish politics with the launch of her Iyi, or "Good," Party.
Middle East Eye
October 25, 2017
ISTANBUL, Turkey – It calls itself the Good Party, its logo is a bright yellow sun ... On the other hand, it is not an ideal climate to be a political force at the ... with a Turkish one in 1996, had no hesitation about entering politics ...
Northwestern University NewsCenter
October 24, 2017
The conference, hosted by the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies ... between law and politics in contemporary Turkey in connection with the ...
Deutsche Welle
October 19, 2017
School curricula in Turkey and EU states Hungary and Poland have been trending ... in schools is not surprising: After the complete political and administrative takeover of ... chief advisers, defended the Turkish curriculum in an interview with DW. ... Secular Turks are alarmed that their country is taking an ...
New York Times
October 7, 2017
American officials have pressed the Turkish government on certain cases, ... More than 50,000 Turks have been imprisoned and 150,000 more have been ... were being held as hostages for political reasons by Turkey.
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
A new center-right party is set to shake up Turkey's political scene. ... Entering Turkish politics in 1995 as part of the center-right True Path Party, Aksener ... Many Turks are pinning their hopes on her, the woman challenging ...
Kurdistan24
August 27, 2017
Kurdistan referendum polarizes Turkey politics amid call for war ... independence referendum next month has created a rift within the Turkish political scene as ... right,” he stated, adding a right enjoyed by the Turks also belonged to the Kurds.
