Sylvia Tiryaki

Articles de cet auteur (4)

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  If we lose secularism, we lose everything

  10 June 2008

  Yes, if the rule of law ceases to be ultimate, and if the credibility of the highest court is lost even for once, then we can irrefutably say that we have lost it all.
  One of my young colleagues told me the other day, “The secularism of Turkey is exactly that what distinguishes us from countries for instance in Middle East. If we lose it, we would lose everything.” Actually, his was just the answer to my question on whether he really believed that allowing women wearing headscarves to attend (...)

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  Eurasia versus ’Eureuropa’

  29 May 2008

  It is very likely that French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s vision of the future of Europe is much closer to that of Napoleon than that of Jean Monnet. This assumption would explain much of his cholerically obsessive behavior including the one regarding Turkey’s accession to the European Union.
  In this instance, seeing Sarkozy acting out of trepidation rather than of true chauvinism would be more explicable. However, and understandably, such a revelation would hardly appeal to the French (...)

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  Please, don’t contribute to fascism in Turkey

  14 December 2007

  Let me quote Murat Belge, to start with: "Please, don’t contribute to fascism in Turkey.’’ This is a concluding sentence of a prominent Turkish intellectual’s speech addressed to the representatives of the French political and civil society at a Paris conference last week. I have borrowed these words not only because of their meaning but particularly because of the way they were articulated. It was not merely a sentence, uttered at the conference. There was much more in it: it was a (...)

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  Where do the Greek Cypriot policies lead to ?

  5 novembre 2007

  The Greek Cypriot minister of foreign affairs, Erato Kozakou-Marcoulli returned only recently from her visit to Kyrgyzstan when another Greek Cypriot official, the honorary president of socialist political party EDEK Vassos Lyssarides started preparing for a trip, this time to Damascus.
  According to press reports, Marcoulli might follow him. A reason for the Greek Cypriot regional diplomatic traffic is the same as in many other cases : The Greek Cypriot officials usually go to those (...)