05 - Articles de mai 2007

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Kurdish and leftist parties
31 May 2007, by Göksel Bozkurt

The Democratic Society Party (DTP) aims to harmonize with small parties on the left in large cities during the general elections, a party official said yesterday.
The party has already decided to run with independent candidates and announced its withdrawal from the elections as a party. Confident of a good performance in southeastern Anatolia, the party now seeks ways to do the same in Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Konya, Manisa, Muğla, Kocaeli, Antalya, Bursa and Denizli.
A DTP official (...)
Turquie, le retour des vieux démons
30 mai 2007, par Alain Bockel, Ariane Bonzon

On en croyait le temps révolu. Mais des bruits de bottes se font de nouveau entendre en Turquie. L’armée ne s’interdirait pas d’intervenir si elle jugeait que la situation le nécessite, faisait savoir un communiqué militaire en date du 27 avril. Un formidable déni à tous les efforts engagés depuis 1999 pour rapprocher la Turquie de l’Union européenne.
Bruxelles jouait alors le rôle de levier et de garde-fou vis-à-vis d’une Turquie qui voulait rompre avec ses vieux démons. Une sorte de consensus semblait (...)
Secularism and inventing history is just a convenient tool in Turkish politics
29 May 2007, by Ziya Meral

With the highly emotive appeal to ‘save our country against the enemy’, CHP leader Deniz Baykal, is not asking for an armed conflict, but rather votes for his party to come into office. When the glamorous dress falls what is shown once again is good old politics
Ziya Meral, a Turkish convert to Protestant Christianity, is a theologian and writer.
Politics has always been a mundane human exercise that has needed a little bit of imaginative help to get it going. The quest for sovereignty and (...)
A book that sheds light on the past and future of Cyprus
26 May 2007, by Ariana Ferentinou

If there was a genre such as academic journalism, Kızılyürek’s book ‘Glafkos Clerides: The Course of a Country’ would certainly be considered a good example.
When I had met Niyazi Kızılyürek a few months ago in Brussels, the book had already been finished. And he was full with an enthusiasm of a journalist who had managed to get a “scoop”. “Yes, we visited him at his home by the sea, we talked for hours, for days; he told me things that he did not tell to anyone before. Yes, he is 87 and in a very (...)
Will the crowds now vote for CHP-DSP ?
25 May 2007, by Ilnur Cevik

Source : TNA, 21 May 2007
So the “Republic” rallies which became a show of force for the secularists in Turkey have ended. The rally is Samsun was of course not as impressive as the huge rally in Izmir last week or the crowded affairs in Ankara and Istanbul but once again it showed that there is enthusiasm in every corner of the country for people to turn out and wave their flags declaring Turkey is secular and will remain secular.
But will this enthusiasm and show of force be translated (...)
« Une deuxième révolution est en cours en Turquie »
24 mai 2007, par Jean-Christophe Ploquin

Source : La Croix, le 15/05/2007
Entretien avec Baskin Oran, professeur de sciences politiques à l’université d’Ankara. Intellectuel engagé, ce spécialiste du droit des minorités estime que son pays doit s’accepter comme une nation plurielle où chaque citoyen pourrait forger sa propre identité.
La Turquie connaît depuis un mois une nouvelle crise dans sa marche vers la démocratie. Comment l’expliquez-vous ?
Baskin Oran : Nous traversons la seconde révolution que notre pays ait connue depuis sa (...)
Sarkozy will soon see that Turks are not ’from Cappadocia’
23 May 2007, by Gila Benmayor

Source : TDN, May 19, 2007
On the day that the new French President Nicolas Sarkozy moved into the Élysée Palace, I was watching a dance performance “Il Ballo Di Corte” by the French choreographer Christine Grimaldi at the Saint Irene (Aya İrini).
In the company of Middle Age music from the 16th and 17th centuries, the performance reflected a section of palace entertainments. It was in harmony with the Saint Irene’s grandiose and solemn atmosphere. Costumes of the dancers were inspired by (...)
Will France be obliged to carry Turkey to the EU ?
22 May 2007, by Beril Dedeoğlu

Source : TDZ, 12/05/2007
During electoral processes, sometimes a dichotomy can appear. When it becomes difficult to denominate the existing alignments, an external issue is discovered and electors are forced to take sides over this. On this, Turkey and France are very similar.
Every political party in France defends democracy, secularism, the people’s interests and a prosperous future; in other words, they are in favor of a European-style liberal democracy.
A very similar question
In (...)
La question de la Turquie se posera vite
21 mai 2007, par Jean-Christophe Ploquin

Source : La Croix, le 10-05-2007
Fin juin, la France devra dire si elle autorise l’ouverture de trois nouveaux chapitres de négociation entre la Turquie et l’Union européenne.
Le Parlement turc a adopté mardi une loi déterminant le cadre légal pour la construction et la mise en service des premières centrales nucléaires du pays. Le texte autorise le ministère de l’énergie à lancer un appel d’offres pour la construction des centrales et détermine quelles seront leurs capacités et où elles seront (...)
Orhan Pamuk : « Le Bosphore est le vrai centre d’énergie d’Istamboul »
19 mai 2007, par Sabine Audrerie

Source : La Croix, le 14-05-2007
Romancier reconnu dans le monde entier et intellectuel contesté dans son pays pour ses déclarations sur le génocide arménien, qui lui valurent un procès, l’écrivain turc Orhan Pamuk publie le récit de son enfance à Istamboul. Une déclaration d’amour à la ville à laquelle son destin est intimement lié
A l’occasion de la parution de son récit autobiographique Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk a répondu aux questions de La Croix en demandant expressément de faire silence sur les sujets (...)