Sezen Aksu, Sedef Kabas, and the woman who protested “We are hungry!” in a mosque are the most discussed topics of the week in Turkey. These three events are even enough to understand the toxic political atmosphere of Turkey led…
We have not been surprised but dispirited with the news of another seizure of a chain of private schools in Ethiopia last week. While Turkey struggles with consecutive disasters from wildfires to flash floods and landslides besides endemic ethnic racism,…
On August 8, the Foreign Policy published a substantial article by Noah Blaser on the expansion of prison superstructure across Turkey under the tutelage of the totalitarian Erdogan regime. The article is supplemented with eye-opener visuals including a map of Turkey marked…
Since the founding of the Republic of Turkey, people of Turkey have not been strangers to myriad social, economic and cultural milestones and crises. Yet, none but one of those crises has been so disparaging with a massive fallout. The failed…
KRT TV shared the criminal network of government officials and high profile people based on Sedat Peker’s confessions and this network withdrew the attention of the public on how these former and current officials turned the state into a real international criminal…
There is not a single day when we do not hear something new in Erdogan’s Turkey. It has been a long time since we stopped talking about today’s Turkey being a democratic state governed by democratic institutions as per the…
It hurts to see how Turkey has been enslaved by a mafia regime under Erdogan’s tutelage. In my previous articles, I analyzed this phenomenon which touts the brand ‘The New Turkey’ and explained at length why I thought it was…
Annually celebrated with enthusiasm and excitement by millions of children across Turkey, April 23 Children’s Festival is the world’s first official children festival. This day was gifted to children by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Republic of…
The world was focused on Turkey, especially on the EU presidents’ meeting with Erdogan. The world now discusses the incident occurred when the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was not given a chair in a billion-dollar extravagant palace…
It is really difficult to write a weekly column on Turkey. In most countries, columnists write about a popular issue of an important week. That is pretty ordinary in states where democratic and social institutions are functional. Unfortunately, for the…
In Turkey, everything loses its value on every passing day under the Erdogan regime. Legislative, executive and judiciary branches of governance are extremely eroded and abandoned to self-destruct. With the critical dysfunction of the separation of powers, things fall apart.…
The Gulen Movement is a transnational civil movement with forte in education and prominence in social, cultural, business, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, media, charity and humanitarian services worldwide. All the activities conducted by the Movement involve making sustainable and substantial…