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Wall Street Journal: Turkish State TV to ‘Explain’ Turkey to Foreigners

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly accused the Western press of reporting “lies” that misrepresent Turkey. Now his government has decided to tell its own side of the story – reaching foreign audiences directly by setting up an English-language television channel. According to the spokesman of state broadcasting company, TRT, the English-language channel is the most expensive project [...] → Read the full article…

Jadaliyya: Hundreds of Academics Declare their Support to METU

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Hundreds of academic across the world have shown their solidarity with Middle East Technical University (METU) in its fight against the unlawful and destructive highway construction project passing through the campus forest. There are 857 signatories from 278 academic institutions and twenty-six different countries. The statement emphasizes that METU resistance has turned into a fight for environmental rights, freedom of speech, and higher [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Turkey’s democracy deficit led to Gezi protests – SI Secretary General

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Turkey’s Gezi Park protests have clearly reflected the distance between the priorities of the Turkish people and the Turkish government, Socialist International (SI) Secretary-General Luis Ayala has said ahead of the group’s summit in Istanbul, which will begin with a special session on Gezi. We are very interested in listening and learning more of the Gezi Park protests. That’s why [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Four million people watched Gezi protests on alternative live broadcaster UStream

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UStream, the leading video technology platform allowing individuals to broadcast live online with their mobile devices, said four million people watched Turkey’s Gezi Park protests as clashes between police and protesters on the mainstream news channels were not broadcasted properly. “There was an amazing traffic during the protests in Turkey, an incredible creativity by users. Some 4 million people watched [...] → Read the full article…

New York Times: After a Break, Turkey’s Prime Minister Again Courts Controversy

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In his time in power, more than a decade now, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has alienated large portions of the population for his seeming intrusions into private lives. He has told women how many children they should have, has sought to outlaw abortion and adultery and to limit alcohol consumption and once, oddly, went on a public tirade [...] → Read the full article…

Al-Monitor: Does AKP’s ‘silent revolution’ silence women? – Pınar Tremblay

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Did you know there are legitimate and illegitimate lifestyles? That is what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a Finnish reporter in Helsinki on Nov. 6. After suggesting the reporter was on a special mission to offend him, Erdogan went on to say that during his 16 years in politics, he has “never intervened in personal lifestyle choices.” Erdogan added that whatever the laws say, that [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: It’s More than a Boy-Girl Story – Murat Yetkin

It started with a leak, too. The leak was from a closed-door session of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Parti) latest big event bringing MPs and party organizers together to assess the political atmosphere before the March 2014 local elections. It was exclusively reported by daily Zaman and as part of another political story, not a separate one. [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Mixed-student apartments home to terrorist and illegal organizations, interior minister says

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Interior Minister Muammer Güler brought another dimension to the debate on mixed-student housing, arguing that many of these apartments harbored terror and other illegal activities, such as prostitution. “We are considering the issue from the viewpoint of a fight against terrorism. Particularly apartments, student residences and lodging houses where university students are living are places that terror groups and other [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: University Students Recount Their “Gender-Mixed” Lifestyle

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Various university students spoke up on PM’s remark “Male and female students are sharing the same apartment”. Bianet interviewed various university students regarding PM Erdoğan’s latest remark on college lifestyles. Reminding that their issues are similar regardless of being on campus, on the street or at the student residences, they spoke on their “gender-mixed” lifestyles. “We have witnessed it in [...] → Read the full article…

The Guardian: Abdullah Gul hints at battle for Turkish presidency – Simon Tisdall

Abdullah Gul hints at battle for Turkish presidency

Gul not ruling out challenging authoritarian prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for presidency next summer. Growing divergence of views over the government’s handling of last summer’s violent street protests, and over what Gul calls Turkey’s “democratic deficit” and the “normalisation” of Islamic values within Turkey’s secular constitutional framework, has prompted suggestions that the two men, who together have dominated the [...] → Read the full article…

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