Hurriyet Daily News: Police resort to tear gas to quell protests denouncing campus-crossing road at METU

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Students of Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) gathered inside the campus to denounce a road project that will lead to the demolition of part of the university’s forested area on Sept. 6. Police resorted to a brutal crackdown to quell the protests that raged throughout the day.  Students first gathered during the morning and stood in front of construction vehicles, [...] → Read the full article…

Al-monitor: Military Strike on Syria May Put Turkey at Risk

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By Semih Idiz With Ankara acting as one of the principal cheerleaders for a military strike against Syria, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing Turkey’s participation in any military coalition, increasingly concerned Turks, unaware of what exactly the Turkish contribution will be, are bracing themselves for all possible consequences from a US-led operation against the Syrian regime. Damascus’ chilling [...] → Read the full article…

Le Monde Diplomatique: Turkey’s Ailing Sultan

The response of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to this summer’s protest movement in Turkey made clear his worsening authoritarianism. Yet his AKP party was founded on inclusivity and pragmatic compromise. As Turks struggled to grasp the impact of this summer’s protests in Istanbul and other cities across the country, Yeşim Arat, professor of political science at Bogazici University, pointed [...] → Read the full article…

The World: Turkish Government Wants to Bomb Syria: Turks Opposed

By Dalia Mortada In Turkey, the government has been outspoken in its support of a foreign intervention in Syria. The country currently hosts close to half a million refugees from its southern neighbor, and thousands more pour in through Turkey’s borders each week. Turkey’s Prime Minister Reccep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken out against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad from the start [...] → Read the full article…

Al-Monitor: Welcome to Post-Gezi Turkey – Orhan Kemal Cengiz

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The protests that erupted in Istanbul’s Gezi Park in late May and then spread across the country marked a watershed in Turkish politics. The protests aimed to stop the cutting of trees at Gezi Park, but quickly grew into mass demonstrations against the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and most particularly against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. [...] → Read the full article…

Bianet: Ali Ismail Korkmaz Murder Suspects Charged With Life Sentence

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Prosecutors completed their indictment on Ali Ismail Korkmaz case, charging 5 individuals with life sentence for beating Kormaz to death during Gezi Resistance protests in Eskişehir. Eskişehir – BIA News Desk Prosecutors completed their indictment on Ali Ismail Korkmaz case, charging 5 individuals with life sentence for “premeditated murder” of Kormaz. According to article by Fırat Alkaç in Taraf newspaper, the [...] → Read the full article…

The New York Times: With a Burst of Color, Turkey’s Public Walkways Become a Focus of Quiet Protest

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In Istanbul, known as the city of seven hills, dozens of public stairways crisscross centuries-old neighborhoods, giving pedestrians a way to avoid heavy car traffic on the streets. Those walkways generally attract little notice, but that changed last week, when a retired forestry engineer decided to paint the Findikli stairs in the central district of Beyoglu in all the colors of [...] → Read the full article…

The Guardian: Syrian conflict brings sectarian tensions to Turkey’s tolerant Hatay province

Erdogan’s Islamist government accused of exploiting religious divisions in Antakya, long renowned for its ethnic diversity By Constanze Letsche – ANTAKYA Nearly a quarter of the 2 million people who have fled the crisis in Syria – some 460,000 – have made their way into Turkey, the UN high commission for refugees announcedon Tuesday. While many find themselves at the [...] → Read the full article…

Hurriyet Daily News: Turkish police used excessive force in Gezi protests, Interior Ministry’s report says

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ANKARA Police exercised “excessive force” in trying to quell the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul and İzmir, according to a recent report prepared by Interior Ministry inspectors. The report demanded permission to open preliminary an investigation into some cases of the excessive use of force in Istanbul. It also demanded permission to probe plainclothes police officers who were seen carrying [...] → Read the full article…

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