Politics in 2012
The following analysis summarizes recent developments on two items in Turkeys political agenda: the anti-tutelage struggle; and the PKKs disarmament and the resolution of the Kurdish question.
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Politics in 2012
The following analysis summarizes recent developments on two items in Turkeys political agenda: the anti-tutelage struggle; and the PKKs disarmament and the resolution of the Kurdish question.
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The debt crisis in EU countries provoked pessimistic scenarios regarding economic growth, causing developed and developing countries to revise down their economic growth plans.
Turkey needs to draw lessons from the past and take necessary steps to facilitate the process.
Unless the PKK articulates the phrase we can disarm hypothetically, its disarmament in reality will not be possible.
The real issue rose when Kurdish uprisings rose against Kemalism in response to the imposition of Turkification policies on Kurds, who were, in effect, natives of Anatolia.
Universities and Democracy Culture
Just as universities cannot be the places where students resort and consecrate violence; universities are public places where one cannot limit students and academics right to protest.
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What Does Ergenekon Mean for Turkey's Center-Left Politics?
During Ergenekon hearing, CHP deputies joined forces with radical left actors including the Workers Party (İP) and the TGB.
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The congresss most outstanding contribution to the AK Party and Turkish politics was that it offered crucial hints to define the identity of the AK Party and the new dynamics of its politics.
The AK Party, hopefully, will make a correct evaluation and put forth a democratic vision for constructing the new Turkey.
Turkey does not have an interest in positioning the AK Party government as a belligerent in the Syrian war just as it does not have an interest in putting the CHP in a Baathist position.
Mohamed Morsi, by forcing the top names of the SCAF to resign, squeezed decades of the Turkish political calendar into a single month. From now on, in its battle against the tutelage regime he will struggle not only to come to power but also be in power.
