Since the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) rule, the field diversified as mainstream and marginal media became more pluralized. Mainstream media has diversified and reflected societal demands, political positions and differences.

The Ak Party which integrated a discourse of civilization with Erdoğan's leadership, has the courage to confront all fears of the history of Turkish modernization.

Turkey must complete its reconciliation process with the Kurds, reinforce local administrations and initiate further democratization initiatives.

Politics in Turkey has been in normalization process in which different demands and identities come forward and the invisible becomes visible since 2002

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.

We face a center before us that, rather than arresting the criminal, accumulates crimes until it decides to use them for its own politically motivated operation later, committing an ignominious crime itself.

If the Gulen movement wants to serve society, they should restrict themselves to nongovernmental activities rather than using their bureaucratic influence to engage in politics.

The Gülen Movement was known for the cool-headed decisions it took at the risk of severe criticism during Turkey’s most difficult times. Today, it would be expected that the same movement will display a similar rationality in a changing Turkey.

Only time will tell whether a desire for such change will emerge in the political in Iran, and if it does, whether it will be achieved. Similarly, the answer to the question “Does the West prefer a normalized Iran in the region” is yet to become clear.

This declaration is a large step towards protecting academic freedom to its full extent on campuses.

Turkey will suffer from normalization pains just a while longer. Issues stemming from Kemalism will continue to plague our daily lives until the articles that regulate state-religion, military-civilian and state-citizen relations in the Constitution are amended.

Trying to sweep this incident under the rug and calling it an isolated incident will contribute to the aggravation of the problems. The society, as a result, will begin to perceive hate crimes as normal.

Kılıç Buğra Kanat: A possible U.S. intervention will not end the civil war. However, in a more optimistic look, it is possible to expect that the strike will seriously damage Assad’s conventional forces and give opposition groups serious advantages.

Ulutaş: On-going detentions and massacres in Egypt have shut the door for a political solution in the country.

What will shape politics and the society in Turkey from now on is not the identity of those who were in Taksim, but who they represented both qualitatively and quantitatively.

The last thing Turkey desires should be the entrapment of the solution process similar to that of Kirkuk’s.

The economic transformation in the region will enable effective use of regional resources and ensure sustainable peace and environment of trust.