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RPP LEADER KEMAL KILIÇDAROĞLU’S ‘JUSTICE MARCH’
Introduction Turkey’s pro-secular, pro-European and social democratic main opposition party, Republican People’s Party (RPP – Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi in Turkish) is often criticized for being too harsh on secularism as well as acting in an elitist
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PROF. DR. YALÇIN KÜÇÜK’TEN ‘KÜRTLER ÜZERİNE TEZLER’
Prof. Dr. Yalçın Küçük (1938-)[1], yeni nesil araştırmacılarca son yıllarda yaptığı medyatik açıklamalar ve oluşturduğu garip komplo teorileriyle tanınsa da, aslında geçmişte birçok bilimsel esere imza atmış önemli bir bilimadamıdır. İleri düzeyde Rusça bilen
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ERBIL NOTES (MAY 2017)
I participated into an international conference (AEC17 – Administration and Economics Conference 2017) organized by Lebanese French University and Erbil Polytechnic University last week and had chance to visit Erbil city once again for
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UPA YAZARI FURKAN KAYA, “KÜRESEL DİPLOMASİ” PROGRAMINDA PROF. DR. BURHAN KUZU’YU KONUK ETTİ
Yeditepe Üniversitesi öğretim elemanı ve Uluslararası Politika Akademisi (UPA) yazarı Furkan Kaya, KRT’de yayınlanan “Küresel Diplomasi” programında, bu hafta, TBMM Anayasa Komisyonu eski Başkanı, AK Parti MKYK üyesi ve İstanbul milletvekili Prof. Dr. Burhan
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STEVEN COOK’DAN ‘ARE CONDITIONS RIPENING FOR IRAQI KURDISH STATE?’
Steven A. Cook[1], Türkiye ve Orta Doğu siyaseti üzerinde yazdığı yazılarla tanınan bir CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) uzmanıdır[2]. Cook, 5 Ocak 2017 tarihinde CFR web sitesinde “Are Conditions Ripening for Iraqi Kurdish State?”
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BİROL AKGÜN’DEN ‘TÜRKİYE’DE SEÇMEN DAVRANIŞI, PARTİLER SİSTEMİ VE SİYASAL GÜVEN’
1968 Soma doğumlu Türk akademisyen Prof. Dr. Birol Akgün[1], Türkiye Maarif Vakfı Mütevelli Heyeti Başkanı ve Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi öğretim üyesidir. Akgün’ün 2002 yılında Nobel Yayın Dağıtım tarafından basılan “Türkiye’de Seçmen Davranışı, Partiler Sistemi
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TURKEY: NO LONGER A DEMOCRACY
Pro-Kurdish parliamentarians being dragged into police cars[1], assassination attempts[2] and police raids[3] are taking place towards critical journalists, death-penalty is prepared to be introduced to the legal system[4] and a purge against moderate Islamist
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Turkey’s wobbly democracy suffers yet another heavy blow
Had the attempt to overthrow the Turkish government succeeded the morning of July 16, it would have been the fourth coup in Turkey’s modern history. The last was that of General Kenan Evren, Chief
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RETHINKING TURKEY’S KURDISH QUESTION
After the removal of immunity of parliamentarians, most of the deputies from pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) are now faced with the risk of losing their seats in the parliament in Turkey. This decision
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BINALI YILDIRIM WILL BECOME TURKEY’S NEW PRIME MINISTER
After the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (JDP) organized its extraordinary congress on May 22, 2016. The congress was organized -similar to previous ones- with only one
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