The sociology of July 15
By: Yasin Aktay* The reaction shown by the people of Turkey toward a coup attempt on July 15 and the incidents that developed in its aftermath contain unique aspects requiring social sciences to review all [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* The reaction shown by the people of Turkey toward a coup attempt on July 15 and the incidents that developed in its aftermath contain unique aspects requiring social sciences to review all [ More … ]
Dr. Zaher Sahloul has worked in Aleppo and seen the horrific affect of airstrikes. He says incidents like that which left Omran Daqneesh stunned and bloodied are all too common in a city under siege [ More … ]
By: KILIÇ BUĞRA KANAT* Apart from U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford’s visit to Turkey following the failed coup attempt, the first high-level visit from the U.S. to Turkey is [ More … ]
By: Galip Dalay* The government should have a well-developed plan for dealing with the country’s major issues. Since the failed coup attempt, Turkey has been struggling to deal with the aftershock, grieving for the loss [ More … ]
By: FAHRETTIN ALTUN* The PKK is systematically moving the civilian massacres it has been carrying out in the aftermath of the FETÖ coup attempt under the guise of the TAK in the country’s west to [ More … ]
BY: Ibrahim Karagül* We need to present what is right and true in absolute openness. Regardless of how painful, how threatening, how upsetting it may be, there is never going to be a defense shield [ More … ]
By: Ibrahim Karagül* We had stated July 15 was an internal invasion attempt. Then we stated a new wave will be launched to stir civil war. We said Turkey would be placed under tutelage once [ More … ]
By: EMRE GÖNEN* President Erdoğan personally declared that since July 15, no one, including himself, can afford to act as if nothing has happened After the July 15 coup attempt, the divide between European media [ More … ]
By: Nedret Ersanel* This is how we establish the flow: One, a meeting between Azerbaijan-Russia-Iran in Baku…Two, a summit between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg… Three, Iranian Foreign [ More … ]
By: BERIL DEDEOĞLU* Since the failed coup attempt, Western media has been discussing Turkey’s NATO membership. We do not know why or because of whom this debate started; because nobody in Turkey has hinted that [ More … ]
Ibrahim Karagül* Personal gains have become prominent even before the martyrs’ blood could dry. Fake heroes and showmen have sprouted. Attempts and mental operations to dilute the matter have started. Dastardly campaigns have been started [ More … ]
The charge list against the United States within Turkey over last month’s failed coup is long and, for some, damning. The government says the US is hosting the mastermind of the coup’s plot to topple [ More … ]
BY: SAADET ORUÇ* Since July 15, Western media has not stopped criminalizing Turkey’s leader or people. It is as if Western media and decision makers are dissatisfied that the coup attempt failed Turkish people continue [ More … ]
Sept. 24, 2015, was a tragic day. More than 700 people were killed in a stampede during the annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The disaster occurred on the first day of Eid al-Adha, when [ More … ]
By: Erdal Tanas Karagöl* The Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which was established on Aug. 14, 2001, singularly came to power only 15 months later. Since this date, it managed to come out [ More … ]
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