News archive of September 2014

Because there is no 100-percent-correct way to do this, there is risk of saying the last word at the beginning, because the Turkish government had a very long day yesterday.

Turkey is about to take one of the most critical decisions regarding its role in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Disappointed by the first two rounds of the elections at the HSYK, the government is planning to change the election system of the key judicial body

The Turkish National Agency has pledged to continue the Erasmus exchange student program

I have just returned from a holiday to my home country, where the horror of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seems remote and where people have been immersed in a heated debate over the historical past and contemporary politics.

More than a decade ago, this column predicted that what most Western pundits then labeled as “Turkey’s pro-freedom reformists” would bring “reforms” merely about to broaden freedoms for political Islam and its symbols and restrict (non-Islamist) freedoms in general.

Hey, how come it turns out that everyone has so much to say about the heads of girls? This topic has been implanted so deep in those minds that it has not ended for years.

Turkish Cypriots will be heading to a presidential election next April, the campaign of which will apparently be very colorful.

While the American dollar continues to gain value against all currencies, we need to wait until the weekend to see its course more clearly, particularly against the Turkish Lira.

Galatasaray coach Cesare Prandelli and his players have victory on their minds as the Istanbul club takes on Arsenal in the Champions League. The game will also be a rematch of the 2000 UEFA Cup Final