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ERGENEKON COUP PLOT TRIAL: REGIME CHANGE THROUGH LAW
The Ergenekon coup plot trial, which is considered as the most important legal battle in recent Turkish history, reached an end yesterday (05.08.2013) after Istanbul’s 13th High Criminal Court handed down severe punishments, including
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EU-TURKEY RELATIONS AFTER GEZİ: ANOTHER HALT OR AN INCENTIVE TO REVIVE TURKEY’S MORIBUND ACCESSION PROCESS?
In my previous article I was to a certain extent optimistic over a positive breakthrough in EU-Turkey relations in 2013. However, the way Prime Minister Erdoğan and the AKP members (with a few exceptions)
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THE NEED FOR ‘THIRD WAY’ IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
Yesterday, Egyptian Army made a coup d’état and took the control of the country against the first democratically elected Islamist-oriented President Mohammed Morsi. What happened yesterday in Egypt shows once again that there is
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TURKISH SPRING: OCCUPY GEZİ
A small environmentalist protest that started on 28 May 2013 in order to protect one of the rare green areas in Taksim called “Gezi Park” surprisingly turned into a massive social movement in Turkey
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THE ARAB SPRING: A CONSPIRACY THEORY OR NATION’S WILL?
Revolts did not knock on the door, they just sneaked in the Arab region, toppling some regimes while shaking the thrones of others. Analyses began to heap in an attempt to examine this state
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INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR JEFFREY HAYNES
WHO IS PROFESSOR JEFFREY HAYNES? Associate Dean of Faculty, Research and Postgraduate, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation, London Metropolitan University, Calcutta House, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT. Jeffrey
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ERDOĞAN: A CULTURAL CONSERVATIVE, NOT A POLITICAL ONE
Recently I wrote an article “Liberal Criticism of Erdoğan’s Turkey”, which took both positive and some negative reactions from our readers. General critics towards my article focused on the political liberalism of Erdoğan compared
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LIBERAL CRITICISM OF ERDOĞAN’S TURKEY
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (59), is without any doubt one of the most interesting and powerful leaders of 21st century. Erdoğan has been ruling a “torn country” like Turkey since 2003 and
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JUSTICE FOR ALL, ONE AT A TIME
2013 marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark case in American jurisprudence that upheld the right to counsel in all criminal cases, regardless of the level of offence. Mr. Gideon, charged with breaking and
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A CASE OF MODERATE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT: JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT PARTY
In order to provide an understanding of the ideology of Justice and Development Party in Turkey, the approaches of moderate Islamists should firstly be put forward. Firstly, the moderates denounce the use of violence
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