10 - Articles d’octobre 2011

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  Turkey, France and Sarkozy

  19 October 2011, by Suat Kınıklıoğlu

  Turkey’s relations with France throughout history have had many ups and downs. There are numerous linkages between these two countries that are not always adequately articulated. For instance, one of the greatest French thinkers was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Did you know that Rousseau’s father was looking after the Ottoman palace’s clocks in the Sublime Porte? Indeed, from 1705 to 1711 Rousseau’s father, Isaac Rousseau, who was a watchmaker, served the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul. Turkey and (...)

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  10 of the best exhibitions at the Istanbul biennial

  14 October 2011, by Fiachra Gibbons

  If anything shows the rise of Istanbul as a cultural power, it is its art biennial, which opened this month and runs until 13 November. Fiachra Gibbons selects some of the highlights
  Twenty years ago it was nowhere; now Istanbul is up there with Venice and São Paulo as the art biennials that matter. Istanbul’s rapid rise has been fuelled by the extraordinary generosity of a handful of patrons in a country where traditionally artists could rely on nothing but censure. The latest of the city’s (...)

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  Schamanen vom Bosporus

  12. Oktober 2011, von Daniel Bax

  Musique d’Istanbul et „Anadolu Rock“ revisité : présentation du groupe Baba Zoula et de son nouvel album Gece Kondu.

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  Why the Hrant Dink case is not going anywhere ?

  11 October 2011, by Orhan Kemal Cengiz

  Last Monday the prosecutor read out his final opinion in the Hrant Dink case, meaning the case has approached its final stages. Basically, the prosecutor said that the Trabzon cell of the Ergenekon terrorist organization carried out this murder. But he also said that he is unable to establish concrete links between Ergenekon and Dink’s murderers. We can interpret his remarks as a confession of a failure to identify the real perpetrators of this murder. However, in spite of this failure, he (...)

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  Il n’y aura plus de scoop signé Gökşin Sipahioğlu

  7 octobre 2011, par Claire Guillot

  Avec sa vie criblée de péripéties et de légendes, Gökşin Sipahioğlu aurait fait un bon personnage de film. Un héros à la James Bond, aventurier, flegmatique et tombeur de ces dames. Avec en prime l’accent turc, le culot et un redoutable sens du scoop. Le photojournaliste et fondateur de l’agence photo Sipa est mort mercredi 5 octobre à Paris, à l’âge de 84 ans.
  Depuis, l’émotion est considérable dans le monde de la presse et de la photo. « J’ai perdu mon père », résume le photographe Patrick Chauvel. Tous (...)

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  “L’Europe n’est pas impartiale”

  7 octobre 2011, par Euronews

  L‘île de Chypre encore un peu plus divisée. Les Chypriotes du nord, soutenus par les Turcs accusent les Chypriotes du sud d’avoir entamé des travaux de forage de gaz en mer Méditerranée, de manière unilatérale. Entre les deux communautés, le fossé se creuse, ce qui complique un peu plus les négociations en vue d’une réunification. Pour évoquer ces tensions, euronews a rencontré le leader de la communauté chypriote turque, Derviş Eroğlu.
  Bora Bayraktar, euronews :
  Tout d’abord, je souhaiterai vous (...)

• Turkey : Ankara Unlikely to Legalize Conscientious Objection to Military Service

  6 October 2011, by Justin Vela

  Turkish government leaders have made reducing the military’s role in politics one of their top domestic priorities. But there is one area where the politicians appear reluctant to confront the generals – providing draft exemptions for conscientious objectors.
  Turkish law requires males between the ages of 20-41 to serve in the military; six months for university graduates, 15 months otherwise. The European Court of Human Rights and European Commission have pressed Ankara to recognize (...)

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  If not the goats, then who?

  5 October 2011, by Hüseyin Gülerce

  In a recent statement to journalists, President Abdullah Gül said: “You know, I assigned the State Audit Institution [DDK] to investigate the Hrant Dink and Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu cases. The agency has found some sad things in regards to the Yazıcıoğlu case. I mean, it is unbelievable, but the flight recorder of the chopper that crashed is gone. Well, the goats didn’t take it. It was removed from its place with screwdrivers and is now missing. Later, we received much information. One person wrote the (...)

• Karikaturist nach blasphemischer Zeichnung angeklagt

  4. Oktober 2011, von Boris Kalnoky

  Bahadir Baruter, caricaturiste, a été inculpé pour «insulte aux valeurs religieuses d’une partie de la population» et encourt une peine d’emprisonnement pouvant aller jusqu’à un an. La caricature a été publiée dans l’hebdomadaire humoristique «Penguen».