Aland Mizell:The DTP’s political revolt in Turkey: Stolen generations
Kurdish Media 09.11.2008-Many Kurdish people are sick and tired of the Turkish government’s hypocritical policies and its blaming the Kurds for everything, but never accepting any responsibility for the Turkish dirty war and racist policies in southeastern Turkey.
Emrullah Uslu: AKP Unable To Decide On Its Kurdish Policy
Eurasia Daily Monitor-On November 2 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the eastern province of Hakkari to deliver a speech at a congress of his Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) local branch. In Hakkari, where the Democratic Society Party (DTP) has a strong municipal presence, DTP supporters held street protests and closed stores on Sunday objecting to Erdogan’s presence.
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Erol Onderoglu: State's Security Hijacks The Freedom Of Expression
BIANET 3.11.2008-11 individuals, 77 of them journalists, were tried in 73 different cases for their opinions and reporting rights violations by the state. 36 of them were tried under article 301. Crimes against journalists go unpunished and military based censorship is increasing.
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Yigal Schleifer : Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech
The Christian Science Monitor 30.10.2008-The country's courts and governments have banned 850 websites this year, including YouTube and Blogger.For pioneering Turkish blogger Erkan Saka, these are dark days. Last week, he found himself cut off from a group of blogs that he belongs to and from hundreds of other websites he regularly reads.
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John C. K. Daly :Turkey Pursues Its Own Foreign Policy Line
The Jamstown Foundation -If there is one constant of Turkish foreign policy, it is that Ankara puts the nation’s interests first and foremost, which occasionally discomfits neighboring countries and allies, who believe that their perceptions and interests should have more impact on policy formation than is often the case.
Submitted by Tsiatsan on Thursday, October 30 2008
J.Borger: Kirkuk dispute threatens to plunge Iraq into Kurdish-Arab war
The Guardian 28.10.2008-Iraq's relative calm is threatened by a festering Kurdish-Arab conflict over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other disputed territories, that could explode into the worst sectarian war the country has suffered since the 2003 invasion, a new report says today.
Cenk Gürcan:Positive Steps Taken For The EU And The HR Saved The Ruling Party
It seems the Constitutional Court tried not to close the Justice and the Development Party (AKP) by concentrating on the extenuating circumstances. The simple conclusion is that the positive steps taken by the AKP for the European Union and the human rights saved it from closing.
Patrick Wrigley :Turkey's Ergenekon Case Raises Kurdish Hopes and Fears
World Politics Review -A high-profile trial of a shadowy Turkish ultra-nationalist organization dubbed Ergenekon, after the mythic birth place of the Turkic race, got under way in the Silvri Prison Complex near Istanbul on Monday amid fervent demonstrations.The Turkish press has long anticipated the commencement of the trial,
which is the culmination of a 16-month investigation and 2455-page
indictment that has divided opinion in the country. The Islamist ruling
AK Party has long championed the case as the first crackdown in Turkey
on "the deep state," an alleged covert, nationalist cabal of military
officers, intelligence agents and policemen acting outside the judicial
and political parameters of the state.
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It seems the Constitutional Court tried not to close the Justice and the Development Party (AKP) by concentrating on the extenuating circumstances. The simple conclusion is that the positive steps taken by the AKP for the European Union and the human rights saved it from closing.
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