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Did Gül really have the chance to be the president?

Salı, Mayıs 29th, 2007

There are a group of intellectuals claiming that none of the AKP candidates including Vecdi Gönül would ever be allowed to take this post. These are the intellectuals democratically supporting the AKP and have nothing to do with Kemalists.
 
  Convened to elect the president on Apr. 27, 2007, a parliamentary session was cancelled by the […]

Wolfowitz and plagiarism

Cuma, Mayıs 25th, 2007

Please do not say, “Gees, even Wolfowitz committed plagiarism!” after you read the title of this article. It is out of the question! I am only trying to make a comparison about ethical values.

   Paul Wolfowitz is the president of the World Bank. When he arranged a lucrative pay and a generous promotion package for […]

Election gimmicks against Kurds

Çarşamba, Mayıs 16th, 2007

People who are capable of any kind of wrong doings and who follow no ethical rules what so ever are termed as “utterly shameless!”. 
  I have never thought that I would use such terminology for my own country.
  Turkey reflects an utterly shameless image. I definitely exclude the ordinary citizens of this country. But the […]

Turkey is a land of oddities

Salı, Nisan 24th, 2007

11 million people vote for a political party (the AKP), that party becomes the ruling party on its own, then the question of that party’s leader becoming the president of republic arises. According to the latest figures available, 1 million people organize a meeting to protest against such possibility exercising their democratic rights. 
  However, the […]

Democracy is to tolerate what you don’t like

Çarşamba, Nisan 18th, 2007

Some think that the people who vote for Erdoğan are not the real owners of Turkey. They pay taxes, they even get martyred for it, but they cannot have a word in governance of the country.

  Over the weekend in Ankara, thousand hundreds participated in the “Republic Meeting” and exercised their democratic rights to express […]

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