Lale Sariibrahimoglu

Articles de cet auteur (6)

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  Will Gen. Koşaner maintain compromise?

  3 February 2009

  Turkey has two power centers: One is led by the strictly secular Turkish military and also includes several institutions and high-profile figures supported by certain segments of society who believe in the power of the state at the expense of the people.
  The other is the elected governments, most of which have so far failed to resist against the pressures placed upon them by the establishment that has prevented Turkey from being governed democratically.
  The equilibrium in favor of the (...)

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  What dictates change of mentality within TSK ?

  6 January 2009

  Criticism leveled against the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) due to its overwhelmingly self-protectionist policies at the expense of accountability and transparency, however, has not been limited to Turkish liberals, but has also found support among TSK officers themselves.
  The past several years have witnessed mentality changes within Turkey’s politically powerful military despite its attempt to portray itself as a monolithic structure. In parallel with the launch of democratic reforms in (...)

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  Turkish dilemma: Lack of good governance

  26 October 2007

  During the three-and-a-half-day religious holiday between Oct. 11 and 14, 97 people died and 461 were injured as a result of traffic accidents in various cities across Turkey. This figure is much higher than the number of deaths that occurred in the first half of this year as a result of terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) in the Kurdish-dominated Southeast.
  According to information released on the Web site of the Turkish General Staff, 55 soldiers died in (...)

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  Southeast : economy versus security ?

  24 October 2007

  There has been yet another striking study made public on Turkey’s terror-stricken eastern and southeastern regions, once again revealing how the country was hijacked by a security-first approach rather than addressing the grievances of those areas.
  Turkey earmarked one-third of its budget for fiscal year 2006 for security and defense expenditures for the eastern and the southeastern regions, according to a report prepared by economist Mustafa Sönmez titled “Increased Poverty in the East and (...)

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  Turkey’s dangerous dance with isolationism

  22 October 2007

  It is true that Turkey has recently been suffering from its own mistakes on thorny foreign policy issues such as the Cyprus-related Turkish-Greek disputes and the Kurdish problem, as well as Armenian allegations of genocide. Turkey has missed several opportunities to turn those issues to its own benefit. But when we look at the flipside of the coin, it is also fair to say that Turkey’s interlocutors on the above-mentioned problems are also if not equally to blame.
  On Cyprus, as senior (...)

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  Foreign Affairs : a new battleground between government and establishment

  17 March 2007

  Source : Today’s zaman, 15/03/2007
  President Ahmet Necdet Sezer’s refusal to sign a decree envisaging the appointment of five deputy undersecretaries for the Foreign Ministry, the first of its kind in the history of the republic as described by the daily newspaper Hürriyet in its March 14 edition, has revealed an ongoing battle at the Foreign Ministry between the political leadership and the establishment.
  President Sezer, regarded as the mouthpiece of the establishment that prefers to rule (...)