On March 30th the prime minister’s support among Turkish voters will be put to the test, for the first time since the Gezi protests and the corruption probe, in municipal elections. Mr Erdogan has explicitly turned these into a referendum on himself and his party. If AKP does well, which most analysts reckon means winning over 40% of the vote and [...] → Read the full article…
Turkey’s former chief negotiator and EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış called those who went to the funeral of Berkin Elvan, a teenage boy who died after nine months in a coma as a result of being hit in the head by a tear gas canister during the Gezi Park protests last year, necrophiliacs, a comment that has drawn wide [...] → Read the full article…
As someone who has participated in fag politics and has been a self-identified fag for years, I am filing a formal criminal complaint against the Prime Minister, we will not leave faggotry to them! We claim both faggotry and its honor and shame. During his July 17th, 2013 speech at the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) provincial managers’ meeting, Prime [...] → Read the full article…
This is a letter from Selim Önder’s daughter, Ayşe Önder. Selim Önder, after being exposed to gas canister smoke in his own home in Taksim, had suffered from problems of respiratory distress and lost his life on Father’s Day. The Letter to the Turkish Medical Association Dear Turkish Medical Association, This letter is not political, not about politics, but about [...] → Read the full article…
Özyeğin Üniversitesi rektörü Profesör Erhan Erkut, Gezi Parkı Direnişi sürecinde gösterdiği tavır nedeniyle mütevelli heyeti tarafından istifaya zorlandı. Erhan Erkut’un gözaltındaki öğrencisinin serbest bırakılması için üniversite avukatını devreye sokması nedeniyle baskıyla karşı karşıya kaldığı ve bunun sonucunda 1 Temmuz itibariyle görevinden istifa ettiği ifade ediliyor. Erkut görevinden ayrılmasının ardından öğrencilerine şöyle bir mail attı: değerli özyeğin üniversitesi mensupları, 1 ocak 2008’de [...] → Read the full article…
Perhaps the best words to express the beginning of the resistance in Ankara belong to the Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanık: “Everything happened all of a sudden!” We had been following the developments in Gezi Park for four days. These developments were similar to what had happened with the Emek Movie Theater, which was constructed in 1924 and was destroyed [...] → Read the full article…