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People Daily (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated that he would be a candidate in parliamentary elections for the last time, Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported Monday. Turkey is scheduled to hold its next general elections in the year of 2011. Erdogan told a tourism award ceremony in the Turkish largest city Istanbul on Sunday that the bylaws of his ruling Justice and Development Party...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Serious Turkish diplomacy By: Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett October 29, 2009 Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was expected to come to the White House on Thursday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Erdogan’s visit has now been postponed, and the decision to postpone comes on the heels of the Turkish leader’s high-profile visit to Iran this week. When...
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Middle East and Other Musings (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Thanksgiving without Turkey, but we still have Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Barney, Dodd and Murtha. (See 1 and 1a below.) Get ready for the debate whereby the U.N. to be given more control over our nation's destiny. (See 2 below.) Meanwhile, Obama is doing a pretty good job of dismantling our nation. Wake up America! (See 2a below.) The author writes war with Iran is something Obama wants because...
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Foreign Policy Watch (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The thrust of Soner Cagaptay's recent piece in Foreign Affairs is similar to many like-minded articles that worry about Turkey's trend towards Islamism. In this case, the fear is about the country's increasingly Eastern-facing foreign policy. Cagaptay argues that Turkey's AKP leaders are not just trying to reengage with the Muslim world (a region that the historically Western-oriented Turkey had neglected);...
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Council on Foreign Relations (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Under the leadership of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey's foreign policy is becoming more Islamic. Can the country's history of cooperation with the West survive?
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Narrator (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
How reformists can stop the Islamists who have chipped away at Turkey's secularism. By Ayaan Hirsi Ali AYAAN HIRSI ALI, a former Dutch legislator and women's activist who now lives in the U.S., recently published her memoir, "Infidel." May 9, 2007 SECULAR AND LIBERAL Turks have had a rude awakening from years of deep slumber. Kemal Ataturk's heritage is about to be destroyed — not by...
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Narrator (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
by SEDAT ERGİN- Tuesday, October 20, 2009 I carefully read the Progress Report released by the European Commission last week. Then I went back and read the relevant sections of previous reports carefully. I see that Turkish media almost totally skipped a very critical section in this report. The corruption, that is. The commission has given special attention to the fight against corruption in...
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KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government is considering proceeding with its efforts to settle Turkey's long-standing Kurdish issue without the support of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), since a meeting between CHP leader Deniz Baykal and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss government's efforts seems unlikely due to Baykal's reluctance. Since...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
by Caroline Glick Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis. It isn't that Ankara's behavior changed fundamentally in recent days. There is nothing new in its massive hostility toward Israel and its effusive solicitousness toward the likes of Syria and Hamas. Since the Islamist...
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Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Caroline Glick writes about how Turkey is going downhill in their backtrack to Islamofascism, and even reminds of something very dumb the Bush government once did: Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis . It isn't that Turkey's behavior changed fundamentally in recent days....
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Turkey was long the model Islamic state: pro-Western, democratic, relatively modern and secular. But since Islamists won control of Turkey's government in 2002, that country has steadily been slipping out of the Western orbit. A decisive moment came in 2003, when Turkey refused to allow American forces access to invade Iraq from the north. Last week, Turkey effectively canceled an international military...
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lockandload (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
OUTRAGE: A member of Turkey's Communist party protests at Obama visit in Istanbul during June Caroline Glick once again throws the spotlight on a issue not covered by the mainstream press. Here she shows how Turkey is moving from a secular/Islamic state to an total Islamic state. The further Turkey moves toward Islamism, the further it moves from being able to co-exist with Western nations. It's interesting...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
[JURIST] Turkish human rights and foreign relations are reportedly compromising the country's efforts toward European Union (EU) accession, receiving mixed reviews Wednesday in the European Commission's annual reports on enlargement strategy and candidate progress. According to the reports, "oncerns remain in a number of areas, including freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of...
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Hurriyet: In his closing speech, Erdogan urged the nation to unite, repeatedly proclaiming Turkey as "one nation"
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Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Yesterday, here in Ankara, at the Congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Prıme Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan waxed quite poetic about his road map to solve the country’s troublesome Kurdish question, without actually revealing what is in it. He said he was taking a risk and to an extent indeed he is; there are [...]
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