03 - Articles de mars 2009

Dernier ajout : 31 mars 2009.

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Ergenekon’un görünen yüzü
31 Mart 2009, yazan Akın Özçer

Ana muhalefet partisi ne yazık ki Ergenekon davasını «Cumhuriyet’le hesaplaşma» olarak nitelendiriyor. AKP’nin yargı yoluyla Cumhuriyet, aydınlanma ve demokrasiye savaş açtığını, hatta «Hitler ve Peron yönetimine giden bir görüntü sergilediğini» öne sürüyor. Bu iddiaları tersten okuduğumuzda Ergenekon sanıkları sanki çağdaş demokratik değerleri savunuyorlarmış gibi inanılmaz bir durum çıkıyor ortaya. Bu son derece vahim sonuçlar doğurabilir. AKP’ye karşı olmak başka bir şey, çağdaş demokrasiyle yakından uzaktan ilgisi (...)
Municipales en Turquie : le parti d’Erdogan domine mais reçoit un avertissement
30 mars 2009, par AFP

Le Parti de la justice et du développement (AKP, issu de la mouvance islamiste) était en tête aux élections municipales de dimanche en Turquie avec 39,5% des voix, chiffre toutefois en deçà des prévisions du Premier ministre qui dirige ce parti au pouvoir depuis 2002.
L’AKP était suivi avec 20,2% du Parti républicain du peuple (CHP, social-démocrate), principale force d’opposition au parlement.
Arrivait en troisième position le Parti de l’action nationaliste (MHP, nationaliste) avec 16,7% des (...)
Parties have used and then dropped women
30 March 2009, by Emine Özcan

In their pre-election campaigns political parties have not hesitated to manipulate the symbolism of veiled and unveiled women and use women in other ways. The actual representation of women on party lists is embarrassingly low.
In the whole of Turkey, there are 18 female mayors, and only one of them is mayor in a province capital. The number has not changed over two local elections, that is since 1999. This means that the percentage of women among all of the 3,225 mayors of Turkey is 0.6 (...)
Why Turkey belongs to the EU
27 March 2009, by Sigurd Neubauer

With its geographical location, at the crossroads of an East-West and North-South axis, Turkey has played a dominating geopolitical role from the days of the Ottoman Empire to the present. In recognition of Turkey’s strategic position, President Harry S. Truman was quick to incorporate Turkey into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). As the alliance is celebrating its 60th anniversary, Turkey is again at a crossroad. This time, the choice facing the Turkish Republic is whether (...)
Fazil Say, Turc de tête
27 mars 2009, par Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves

Dans la foulée de son nouveau CD, « 1001 Nights in the Harem » (Naïve), ce pianiste exceptionnel donne un récital, mercredi soir, au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Brève rencontre à Istanbul.
Avec cent trente concerts par an et un agenda complet jusqu’en 2012, Fazil Say est un homme très occupé. C’est donc une chance que d’avoir pu « coincer » le plus célèbre pianiste turc, chez lui, à Istanbul. « Je suis désolé , s’excuse-t-il dans un anglais rocailleux en ouvrant la porte de son rez-de-jardin, mais j’arrive de (...)
Istanbul : World Water Forum is all about commercialising Water
26 March 2009, by Tolga Korkut

Water rights activist Öngür says that the World Water Forum’s primary aim is to commercialise water. Of the 30 or so members from Turkey joining the forum, 27 are construction companies, he points out.
The mainstream media is presenting the fifth World Water Forum (WWF), held in Istanbul this year, as a meeting aimed at finding solutions to the world’s water problems. However, geological engineer Tahir Öngür, a member of the No to Commercialisation of Water Platform says that the opposite is the (...)
Turquie - France : « Écart hallucinant » dans les prisons
25 mars 2009, par Bastien Souperbie

Le centre pénitencier dans lequel est détenue l’Agenaise Sabah Ezzedi est à l’opposé des clichés sur les prisons turques.
Maître Laurent Bruneau, le défenseur de Sabah Ezzedi, n’en est toujours pas revenu. Au lendemain de son retour de Turquie, où il s’était rendu pour plaider la cause de la serveuse agenaise accusée de trafic de drogue, l’avocat agenais a découvert des conditions de détention qu’il qualifie d’« hallucinantes », en comparaison à celles des prisons françaises.
Très loin des clichés (...)
L’AKP à l’assaut de la « forteresse » d’Izmir
24 mars 2009, par Philippe Maurel

Crédité pour les prochaines élections municipales d’une confortable avance par la plupart des enquêtes d’opinion, l’AKP aimerait bien parvenir aussi à conquérir certains des bastions du CHP, à commencer par celui d’Izmir.
Le dimanche 15 mars dernier, l’organisation d’un meeting réunissant, notamment, le candidat local de l’AKP Taha Aksoy (à gauche sur la photo), le ministre de la défense Vecdi Gönül, et surtout le premier ministre Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan (à droite sur la photo), sur la place Gündoğdu d’Izmir, (...)
The enduring popularity of Recep Tayyip Erdogan
24 March 2009, by The Economist

AT A recent rally in the predominantly Kurdish city of Van, in south-east Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in his element. Turkey’s prime minister rattled off his government’s achievements, bellowing out to a jubilant crowd, “22 primary schools, five health clinics, 82 kilometres of paved roads”.
With only three weeks to go before countrywide municipal elections on March 29th, Mr Erdogan has hit the campaign trail in a confident mood. Most opinion polls suggest that his mildly Islamist Justice (...)
Historian challenges politically motivated 1915 arguments
23 March 2009, by Emine Kart

The general tendency to debate the events of 1915 — the killings of Anatolian Armenians during World War I — by employing politically motivated theories on the nature of these events stands as a barrier between the peoples of Armenia and Turkey, preventing them from adequately airing their deep, almost century-old grievances.
Prominent German historian Hilmar Kaiser is presently in Ankara carrying out research in the Turkish archives. In an interview with Sunday’s Zaman this week, Kaiser says (...)