Yonca Poyraz Doğan

Articles de cet auteur (9)

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  TESEV’s Paker: ‘Deep nation,’ not ‘deep state,’ important

  3 May 2011

  A mechanical engineer who began his career at Henkel as a production manager in 1970, he retired from the company as the chief executive officer in 2004 when he founded B.O.Y. Consulting in İstanbul. Paker, who also studied sociology during his university years, became prominent for his involvement in civil society projects. He is the chairman of the board of directors of both the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV), one of the country’s leading think tanks, and the (...)

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  ‘To see junta leader Evren in the dock would be massive catharsis for Turkey!’

  27 April 2011

  An interview with Kerem Öktem If the Sept. 12, 1980 military coup leader, Kenan Evren, is tried in a court for his crimes against humanity, this will be a healing experience for Turkey, according to Kerem Öktem, author of “Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989.”
  Speaking to Today’s Zaman for Monday Talk, Öktem was referring to the investigation of the Sept. 12 coup that a prosecutor in Ankara recently started based on criminal complaints against the perpetrators. This came as a result of the Sept. (...)

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  ’If Dink had been saved, Mutafyan and others would have been killed’

  1er février 2011

  Murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was part of a bigger plan to create chaos and eventually a military takeover in Turkey, said journalist and writer Adem Yavuz Arslan, who added that if Dink had not been assassinated, some other prominent figures would have been.
  “Society now believes that [Ogün] Samast was only the hit man in Dink’s murder and that the murder was not the work of a few ultranationalists. Dink’s murder was part of a big plan to foment chaos in the country to (...)

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  Writer Tûba Çandar : Solving Dink’s murder will benefit all citizens of Turkey

  25 janvier 2011

  If Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s 2007 murder is solved in its entirety, that would mean that Turkey has gone through a serious transformation in its judiciary, security and gendarmerie systems, says writer Tûba Çandar, whose 700-page biography of Hrant Dink’s life, “Hrant,” came out on Dink’s birthday in September of last year.
  “Then we would see that there is a big leap forward on the way toward a transparent and democratic new Turkey. All citizens of Turkey would benefit from such a (...)

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  Headscarf debate is nonexistent in Turkish social life, survey finds

  13 December 2010

  The headscarf problem is purely political and has no real foundation in society, according to a recent survey that found covered and non-covered women are at ease with each other.
  The survey, carried out by the Metropoll Strategic and Social Research Center for the Turkish Businesswomen Association, or TIKAD, aims to stop Turkey “wasting its time and energy on the headscarf debate,” according to TIKAD head Nilüfer Bulut.
  “The deadlock is all political” as parties manipulate the headscarf issue (...)

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  More women to enter workforce if headscarf ban lifted, survey finds

  7 December 2010

  The vast majority of participants in a newly-released survey believe that the ban on the use of the Muslim headscarf on university campuses and in public and private businesses is unjust and that the number of women in the work force would increase if the ban were ended.
  Over 72 percent said Turkey would witness an increase in women in the work place in such a case. The poll was conducted by the Ankara-based MetroPOLL Strategic and Social Research Center upon the request of the Turkish (...)

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  L’islam permet en Europe de diviser pour mieux régner

  8 novembre 2010

  Dans un entretien exclusif, Hélène Flautre, membre du parti français des Verts et co-présidente de la commission parlementaire mixte UE-Turquie, nous confie en quoi, dans une Europe en crise, l’islam est un bouc-émissaire destiné à faire taire les craintes profondes liées aux conditions de vie. Les discours à propos de l’islam permettent notamment aux dirigeants de diviser pour mieux régner. H. Flautre a également dénoncé l’absence remarquée du chef du Parti Républicain du Peuple (CHP) à la réception de (...)

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  Turkey’s Berlin Wall is cracking down (2)

  21 juin 2010

  Veteran journalist Cemal : Judicial coup process is not over Journalist Hasan Cemal, whose most recent book, “Türkiye’nin Asker Sorunu” (Turkey’s Military Problem), has been on the shelves since Wednesday, has said that even though the age of blatant coups seems to be over in Turkey, the threat of a judicial coup is still present.
  “I really have started to believe that coups with tanks and weapons which would force Parliament and political parties to be closed down and ban politicians are over (...)

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  Turkey’s Berlin Wall is cracking down (1)

  18 June 2010

  Veteran Journalist Hasan Cemal, whose most recent book, “Türkiye’nin Asker Sorunu” (Turkey’s Military Problem), hit the shelves last week, has said that there is a serious struggle for democracy and the rule of law, a struggle for change and a struggle between old and new in Turkey, leading to cracks in its foundations.
  “The status quo forces do resist. Where and how do they do that? Look at the high judiciary. Both the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors [HSYK] (...)