Markar Esayan

Articles de cet auteur (2)

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  Property tax: The poor porter is changing the country

  9 December 2010

  The brief history of Turkey is chock-full of tragic events. In other words, we have managed to give much pain to the citizens and children of this country. One of the most tragic of these events was the imposition of the property tax 68 years ago. On Nov. 11, 2010, the Young Civilians organized an event to mark the anniversary of this tragic practice from the past, and I was invited to the event held in front of the Kadıköy Public Education Center, which had been chosen as the gathering (...)

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  Religion and politics in the Turkish political arena

  18 October 2010

  The political profile reflecting the “Milli Görüş” or “National View” movement, as represented by the National Order Party (MNP), the National Salvation Party (MSP), the Welfare Party (RP), the Virtue Party (FP) and finally the Felicity Party (SP), is most likely on the verge of giving birth to a second pro-freedom conservative democratic movement.
  I do not think that this interesting situation has as yet attracted the analysis and debate that it deserves. In order, however, to understand Turkish (...)