Turkish Politics in Action

PHOTO from Vatan The parliament took up the proposed education law (see past post for background) yesterday just hours after 20,000 de...

PHOTO from Evrensel Leftist demonstrators in Taksim protest imperialist intervention in the Middle East and Syria. Speaking in Tunis tod...

PHOTO from Radikal   Thousands of protestors organized this Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of the detention of journalists Ned...

PHOTO from Milliyet One of my favorite political/rhetorical theorists, Kenneth Burke, reckons rhetoric -- and, more specifically, the poli...

PHOTO from Radikal CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu more than weathered two extraordinary congresses held in the past two days. On Feb. 26, t...

PHOTO from Girgir Prime Minister Erdogan and religious leader Fethullah Gulen play a game of chess. Erdogan declares, "I have taken al...

PHOTO from Birgun Fast approaching the anniversary of the Feb. 28 process, or the 1997 "postmodern coup" that brought about the ...

PHOTO from Hurriyet One of the stories I overlooked last week was the Supreme Court of Appeals' rejection of a petition to hear the ca...

PHOTO from Milliyet The President's State Inspection Board today released its report on the assassination of Hrant Dink. The 649-pag...

Eksi Sozluk (or, "Sour Dictionary") is an Internet compendium of information comprised by numerous authors similar to Wikipedia. F...

PHOTO from Cumhuriyet In what many are perceiving as the first big battle between Gulen-friendly and not-so-Gulen-friendly ranks within th...

PHOTO from Milliyet Parliament's commission for human rights is expected to issue a report in the coming days as to what exactly happe...

PHOTO from Radikal There are two more developments to report in the recent MIT episode. The first was a series of early morning raids o...

PH OTO from Cumhuriyet Sadrettin Sarikaya, the specially-authorized prosecutor at the center of the recent probe into MIT, has been remove...

Specially-authorized prosecutor Sadrettin Sarikaya has apparently issued immediate detention orders for former MIT head Emre Taner and curre...