The December 17th axis
The biggest similarity between Feb. 7 and Dec. 17 is the method employed by the police-judiciary. Both operations had similar aims and utilized similar methods.
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End of the Special Authority' Period
The ultimate goal must be to depoliticize the Judiciary by pulling it back to its procedural legal boundaries.
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It is the requirement of rational politics for Turkey to have economic and political cooperation with all countries, notably with her neighbors.
The political institution must make legal and institutional arrangements in order to save the sphere of politics from tutelary mechanisms.
Turkey is facing a new experience. It is in the process of neutralizing the threat to its judiciary system posed by an organization that infiltrated the government, despite the fact its command post is beyond borders.
With their current structure, it is impossible to describe Gulen and his followers as a religious or a civil society organizatıon. They should be described at most as an organization fighting for a state within the State or a political opposition.
What's Happening in Turkey?
All of the Western media, having received their information from the same 20-30 top individuals, all of whom share the same point of view, paint a particular picture of Turkey.
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Turkey's Corruption Crisis: a Political Probe
Corruption cases have a devastating impact on political parties. Turkey was recently hit by a corruption probe that shook the country's government. On December 17, 2013, Turkish police detained over 50 people as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.
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Turkey, a country so critical in shaping the international system, should play a more effective role in international organizations.
The only way to press charges against crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria is to take action in the United Nations Security Council.
The thesis of Turkeys being isolated represents a reductionist approach as it simply focuses on the relations with Syria, Egypt and Israel, and rules out the heavy diplomacy conducted outside the Middle East.
The slanderous claim of Erdoğan-al Qaeda link has been systematically voiced by the Gulen Group in Turkey. It is impossible to distinguish the mentality behind this slander from the Baath mentality in Syria or the US mentality in Afghanistan.
