News archive of July 2014

By George Georgakopoulos

Greece had a hit and a miss in the first-leg games for the third qualifying round of the Europa League on Thursday, as Atromitos scored a 2-1 win at Sarajevo while Asteras Tripolis lost 1-0 at Mainz.

The war in Syria has also spread into Turkey’s southern border province of Hatay due to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) wrong policies, presidential hopeful Selahattin Demirtaş has said, while pledging for peace.

What happened during Bayram?

I’d like to give you a balance sheet of what happened during Bayram in Turkey.

Untimely death:In the traffic wars in Turkey; there have been 150 deaths, with nearly 1,000 wounded…
Bombs went off in Gaza. 1,200 dead…

There are two tendencies.

One sees the continuation of the peace process in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political future.

That’s why it deems it important that he gets elected with a strong and definite victory in the first round.

This tendency is being represented by Ä°hsan Arslan.

Before talking about the new regulations about Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB), which are on the government’s agenda, let me mention different cases of abuses that we have witnessed as a society since the TİB was established in 2005.

Yes, according to many analysts, who underline the country’s credit boom. For example, a research note by Standard Chartered, which was published on July 21, noted China’s total debt to GDP ratio had surpassed 250 percent. You could have shrugged “so what” if it was not the world’s the world’s biggest trading nation and second-largest economy.

Often, it is claimed Turkish political-Islam has been consolidating itself in power through a step-by-step disguised secret agenda. Wrong. These guys have been doing it openly all the way down, but some people insist on not seeing and reading what is exposed so clearly.

President Abdullah Gül and his family will vote for Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu in presidential elections instead of taking sides with his long-time political comrade, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has claimed.

The suspects detained on charges of “illegal wiretapping, spying and fraud” in an operation on July 22 had been monitoring the private lives of the people they allegedly wiretapped illegally, according to authorities.

French soprano Emma Shapplin will perform for Turkish fans in Istanbul’s Harbiye Open Air Theater on August 2.

The 40-year old soprano is expected to sing classics such as “La Notte,” “Miserere Venere,” “Verdi Maria,” “Cuerpo Sin Alma” and “Spente le Stelle.”