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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Is Turkey a Winner or a Loser in Foreign Policy?
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.
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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.
The biggest trouble a social movement may have is the impression that it contains militia or cooperates with a secret organization.
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.
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.
Turkey's Parallel State Strikes Back
Democracy cannot flourish in Turkey if Gulen Movement's parallel structure is not dismantled.
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The New Constitution Institutionalizing the Military-Judiciary-Police State in Egypt
Now in Egypt, there is a new Constitution before us which institutionalizes the Military-Judiciary-Police State and narrows the sphere of the civilian politics in the post-coup period, and paradoxically is dominated by completely secular, liberal and Naserist positions.
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The Gülen Movement was known for the cool-headed decisions it took at the risk of severe criticism during Turkeys most difficult times. Today, it would be expected that the same movement will display a similar rationality in a changing Turkey.
An agreement that included almost all of the terms in the recent deal had been signed among Turkey, Brazil and Iran in 2010.
Obstacles before establishing private schools that are sensitive to private and social diversity in real terms and that offer different education choices should be removed in Turkey. They should even be encouraged!
The West makes an effort to win Iran back because a controllable Iran is the most natural ally of the West in the region.
The Angola issue will pave the way for discussions over Islamophobia again as its profound impacts are becoming more visible in the third world countries lately.
Unless the US immediately broadens its perspective, there will be no guarantees that the new agreement with Iran will not suffer the same fate the Tehran agreement Turkey and Brazil achieved three years ago.
The most striking characteristic of the last five years is the Erdoğan momentum that has developed a constituent politics and created significant structural turning points when impasses occur.
For all these years, neither the Ikhwan changed the state nor did the state change the Ikhwan.
As the presence of the foreign mainstream media in Turkey is felt more every day, young and unemployed foreigners who want to be journalists and free-lance reporters around the world rush to Turkey.
