Was Assad Alone in Committing the Massacres?
These photographs are the best proof of why Assad is still standing. These massacres could not have been committed by the Baath regime alone. Just like Milosevic, the racist, Sisi the ouster, Israel the occupier, the Assad regime could inflict atrocities on two conditions.
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The Gulen Movement's Normalization Crisis
The February 7, 2013 and the December 17, 2013 plots (against the government) have shown to the politics and the society the possible cost to be incurred if the Gulen Movement maintain today the strategy they have adopted under the conditions of the Old Turkey.
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The December 17, 2013 operation is nothing but a multi-dimensional attempt to substitute the gate-guard perspective for politics and to change the order by judicial jugglers in courts.
Two different constitutions were drafted and put on a popular vote in three years after Hosni Mobarak was overthrown in Egypt.
Rule of law has been one of the leading topics of discussion since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The founders of the secular republic which was built on the ruins of the Ottoman State, attempted to ground it in a hybrid model of politics and law, in every sense of the word.
The biggest trouble a social movement may have is the impression that it contains militia or cooperates with a secret organization.
Neo-Tutelage, Intelligence and the Political
What we need today is an intellectual effort to keep politics at the core of its agenda against the neo-tutelage center which simply was born out of a gate-guard perspective instead of discussing the law, legal files and the police.
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Geneva-2: A New Hope for Syria?
Developments such as the destruction of the weapons of mass destruction and softening relations between Iran and the international system may generate a different motivation in the upcoming negotiations.
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We must realise that Sharon is only one face - albeit all-encompassing of the same persistent calamity: Israeli apartheid and colonisation.
It is possible to say that the next step for the Egyptian Minister of Defense, General Abdel Fattah al Sisi, will be the presidential post. This is because new campaign groups and movements to support his candidacy have already surfaced.
In the last decade, after the tutelage regime was forced to retreat, Turkey embarked on a new era. It was easier then to determine the existence of the military tutelage through the crude and tangible interventions of the military bureaucracy into politics.
Since the operational political engineering that the Gulen Movement has launched by leveraging its power within the bureaucracy corresponds to a developing new form of tutelary, it threatens democracy in Turkey.
