Yusuf Kanli

Articles de cet auteur (9)

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  Erdoğan sends a tough message to Greek Cyprus

  26 juillet 2011

  Visiting northern Cyprus to attend ceremonies that mark the anniversary of the 1974 Turkish military intervention, PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivers a crystalclear message to Greek Cyprus and the EU : If the Cyprus issue is not solved in a short period of time, the dreams of a unified island may come to an end
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Northern Cyprus yesterday for the first time since the 61st government was established in Ankara. AA photo
  Visiting northern Cyrus (...)

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  AKP version II ?

  3 June 2008

  Particularly after the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) chose to engage in a “counter offensive” ridiculing the indictment against it and the chief prosecutor rather than presenting its preliminary defense to the Constitutional Court, the expectation that the ruling party will be closed down has increased.
  In addition, discussions regarding the establishment of an “AKP version II” party have begun to spread like a malign tumor. Some distinguished members of the ruling party have (...)

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  Anyone down there!

  25 April 2008

  The voice is still echoing in our ears: “Is there anyone down there!” Those were the calls by rescue teams and volunteers trying to help the teams... They were trying to detect the location of people buried under the rubble of the collapsed buildings and rescue them...
  It was the time of the 1999 great quake that devastated the industrial heartland, Marmara region, of the country, claimed the lives of over 15,000 of our people and in a way triggered the 2001 economic-fiscal quake that (...)

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  The lost Turks, or the lost Europeans

  15 April 2008

  A splendid office in Stockholm… A “Turkish Swede” manager of a not such a small company involved in investments in several dozens of countries, including Turkey, shared some of his extremely valuable time exchanging opinions with a group of guests “from the motherland” on “What’s happening in the motherland?” on the one hand, rising xenophobia across Europe and the reflection of it on the Turks living in Europe.
  The situation has been getting all the more difficult at home for Turks because of (...)

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  First reforms, then salvaging AKP

  11 April 2008

  A six-hour-long meeting of the Party Executive of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ended late Monday evening with a rather wise decision, which can be best summarized as “finally common sense prevailed.” The question now is how sincere the AKP is and how long will it manage to walk down the roadmap Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the top brass of the ruling party decided on after such lengthy deliberations. First of all, the decision demonstrated that the prime (...)

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  Where is Turkey heading?

  31 March 2008

  Is there anyone around who can make a healthy analysis where Turkey is heading? There were signs of Turkey drifting to some uncertainties for some time and indeed this writer wrote many articles over the past year asking the same question: “Where is Turkey heading?” Indeed Turkey is drifting to some uncertainties that no one can indeed have an idea or foresee... The principles for democracy, human rights, freedoms, supremacy of law and such rather normal norms elsewhere are applied here (...)

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  Enhancing reforms

  12 November 2007

  Should Turkey continue its reform drive or should it halt the process, fight separatist terrorist threats, create a suitable atmosphere and resume the process again? This must be the question we should try to find an answer to nowadays if the assumption that the escalation in separatist terrorist activity is to stall, if not stop, the reform movement in this country which is eradicating the reason of existence for the gang.
  Just remember the issues we were discussing when all of a sudden (...)

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  Don’t underestimate independents

  5 July 2007

  While some may say people should avoid wasting their votes by voting for independent candidates, in the new Parliament independents might play a key role in government formation.
  Turkey is heading towards an election but the nation appears still unaware of it. There is no excitement. Unlike past elections, there is total ambiguity and except a strong anticipation that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will maintain its leading status no one can say for sure how many parties – (...)

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  Genocidal crisis in the making

  10 February 2007

  Source : TDN
  What was feared ever since the dual Democratic victory in U.S. Congress has become reality. Pro-Armenian lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday introduced a resolution calling for the recognition of World War I-era killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.
  The resolution, sponsored by Democrats Adam Schiff of California and Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Republicans George Radanovich of California and Joe Knollenberg of Michigan, has (...)