Ceyda Karan

Secular Turks should relax. Not because their president, prime minister and a whole bunch of ruling party commissars outright rejected Parliament Speaker ?smail Kahraman's idea to draft a "religious" constitution so that the secular ethos of the charter goes away. Turkey will be the same Turkey with or without secular principles in its new constitution. 

Two journalists were sentenced to two years in prison on April 28 for republishing in their columns a cover of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo featuring an image of the Prophet Muhammad. 

Turkey has managed to stir confusion in Bulgaria and meddle in the country's internal affairs to an extent that leaves no room for rhetoric, an article reads in the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet [TR], as quoted by the Bulgarian News Agency.

Just four words in Turkish. Five in English, depending on the translation. Not less, not more. They make the opening of a line in an indictment. Those four words tell more than any other four words coming one after the other could. In the sequence they were put one after the other by the honorable prosecutor, they unwillingly portray the unpleasant ? and well-known ? facts about Turkey.