Mehmet Metiner

A ?blame game? has started after political scientist and columnist Mümtazer Türköne wrote an article in daily Zaman 10 days ago with the title ?Is Islamism finished?? referring to the Islamist movement in Turkey.

With several former journalists already serving as members of the Turkish parliament, their numbers are likely to increase as both the ruling and opposition parties have nominated a significant number of journalists from constituencies where they are likely to win.

A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy's remarks suggesting that gay people should be able to serve as imams has stirred a fresh cultural debate on Turkey's heated political stage.

In response to this suggestion, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy İhsan Özkes focused on alleged double standards applied by the government on such issues.

Four Turkish parliamentarians will attend a seminary on fundamental rights and protecting LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people from discrimination organized by the European Parliament in Albania’s capital Tirana on Nov. 20-21.

A draft code that has been submitted to Parliament as part of months of discussions by officials and nongovernmental organizations offers jail time for those who abuse animals.  

Turkish writer Buket Uzuner will submit 40,000 signatures collected via change.org, campaigning against dolphin parks, to the local governor of the resort town Bodrum on June 20.

A draft amendment to the animal protection law will no longer include a ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses, after a ruling party deputy introduced a notice demading the removal of the ban A ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses has been removed from a draft of the amendment on the protection of animals law, with a notice issued by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) d

A draft amendment to the animal protection law will no longer include a ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses, after a ruling party deputy introduced a notice demading the removal of the ban A ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses has been removed from a draft of the amendment on the protection of animals law, with a notice issued by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) d