... December 17, 2013, during which the President ordered his offspring to get rid of all the cash he had stored at home immediately.
And the Ravens Ridiculed
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Ilshat Saetov:
Turkey Politics: Who Wins from Stirring the War
against Kurds?
As per tradition, the Party once again found an external culprit. The government, which was the victim in the whole affair, discovered a plot against them. And the obedient media repeated the details. It was, of course, the usual suspects – ...
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problem solving process
. Turkish intelligence had been in secret negotiations in Oslo with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), whose leader Abdullah Öcalan had been praised by the pro-government politicians as the leader of the Kurds although the terrorists represent only a fraction of the Kurdish people. In those days, everyone could see the advisers of President Recep Erdogan eagerly photographed with the PKK envoys in the Dolmabahce Palace.
Ankara seems to lack any sort of ...
... What is more, on July 25, the Turkish Air Force attacked PKK positions in Northern Iraq. This was the first attack of its kind since 2011, when Turkey bombed the region for six consecutive days. The Turkish police ended up detaining hundreds of armed Kurds and Islamists.
The July 20 attack demonstrated that the military operations being carried out by Kurds and jihadists in Syria and Iraq have spread to Turkish territory.
The events of July 2015 exposed two interconnected security issues. The July ...
On July 20, 2015 the Turkish city of Suruc on the border with Syria fell victim to an horrific terrorist attack that took the lives of more than 30 people and injured another 100 — young activists of the left-wing Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (Sosyalist Gençlik Derneği Federasyonu – SGDF) who had travelled across the entire country to take part in a campaign to restore the neighbouring Syrian city of Kobane. Fighting between ISIS and Kurdish people’s protection...
... constitution. The number of seats is also important for the future government, the composition of which is determined by parliament.
The Kurdish Contingent
The main question surrounding this year’s general election was without a doubt: Would the Kurds get the 10 per cent of votes required to enter parliament? In doing so, the HDP took seats away from the other parties, playing into hands of the ruling AKP Party.
This is a major breakthrough for the Kurds, who up until this point had only been ...
