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 … ]
By: Çetiner Çetin* Turkey has survived one of the most interesting coup attempts of its history. It seems Turkey has significantly overcome the coup attempt which was masterminded by the Gülenist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) [or the [ More … ]
A nongovernmental organization’s chief said Tuesday that the U.S. left Turkey alone since the coup attempt on July 15, adding this was in contradiction to Washington’s national security policies and interests in the region, reported Anadolu Agency. [ More … ]
– Turkish foreign minister says Europe does not understand danger of Gulenist movement, urges strong stance against coup plotters Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has strongly criticized European countries for failing to demonstrate strong solidarity [ More … ]
By: Dr. SADIK ÜNAY* The new format of deeper and comprehensive Turkish-Russian cooperation after Aug. 9 will include added military and geostrategic elements President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s historic visit to St. Petersburg on Aug. 9 [ More … ]
– Foreign Ministry spokesman says human rights official’s comments ‘unfortunate’ – The UN’s top human rights official was criticized by Turkey on Saturday for saying the country should curb its “thirst for revenge” over the [ More … ]
By: Dr. Yasin Aktay* Everyone would recall the thousands in Tahrir Square in January 2011, protesting Mubarak’s decades long regime in Egypt. The initial reaction of Westerners was to find out the religious or ethnic [ More … ]
By: Merve Şebnem Oruç* Before the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, I had started to write an article series named, “The Middle East, Political Islam and the changing foreign politics.” I was preparing to [ More … ]
– Russia’s Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan meet for first time since ties deteriorated last November – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the country is against “all kinds” of coup attempts during his first meeting [ More … ]
By: Ibrahim Karagül* – We succeeded. We managed to revive ourselves against the fourth biggest shockwave, the heaviest attack after the Crusades, the Mongolian invasion, World War I, the global intervention adjusted to destroy our [ More … ]
– AP, Reuters and Wall Street Journal feature long, descriptive stories of massive rally while CNN skips entirely – The anti-coup Democracy and Martyrs’ Rally in Istanbul on Sunday drew broad media coverage in the [ More … ]
– Turkish president says names of martyrs who fought coup attempt will be remembered ‘in golden letters’ – The huge rally to mark the defeat of the July 15 attempted coup was another blow for [ More … ]
By: Sinem Köseoğlu* US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass met with a group of journalists in Istanbul last Thursday. As you would appreciate, the US ambassador mentioned that he was quite saddened by the notion that formed [ More … ]
By:Burhanettin Duran* – Hardly a day passes without new shocking information being unveiled about the Gülenist Terror Organization (FETÖ) whose members were behind the atrocious coup attempt on July 15. Having infiltrated state institutions for [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* All dimensions of the July 15 coup attempt are being revealed in all detail every day and hour. Nothing remains hidden. A video recording of every incident that happened, from an angle not [ More … ]
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