The Association for the Education and Support of Women Candidates (KADER) busied the agenda with a campaign themed on “should we unavoidably have mustache to become parliamentarian” in March. They wanted to emphasize the importance of positive discrimination aiming to increase women’s involvement in political life and to claim their place in democracy.
As a […]
The new French government will continue to do what was done so far: to carry the negotiation process, which is limped by the salient contributions of the Turkish government, to the point of ‘falling apart’.
Some observers in Turkey and France keep saying that the newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy who is against Turkey’s […]
The press in Europe and US covered a lot about what was going on Turkey since Apr. 27. However, it is doubtful that the news and opinion pieces scribbled in general hastily do reflect fully what is around.
As a matter of fact, clichés used prove that the issue could not be grasped well enough; […]
Since the beginning of 2004, the anti-Turkey stance led especially by French and German politicians in the European Union (EU) has added to the hesitation of the Justice and Development Party.
Thus the country’s EU process is getting hurt more every day. The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France is a development which may […]
What Turkey needs today is not less but more democracy, not a second republic but rather a new and renovated left.
I first uttered this formula in 2000 when the then coalition government was challenging EU’s political criteria while arguing on the uniqueness of Turkish case. I have the feeling that we are back to […]