The End of Turkish Journalism and the Importance of the Exile Media
For a decade we —a small group of concerned journalists in Turkey— have spoken about the steady decline of independent, free, and...
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Six Months After the Earthquake, Antakya Remains a Ruin
‘Everything is unclear. When we ask questions about the state of this or that building, we don’t get any answers. Should we keep...
Erdoğan and the Pillars of His Power – Prof Gökhan Bacık
The latest presidential and parliamentary elections in May this year resulted in yet another victory for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his...
The Misery of the Turkish Opposition
Instead of a genuine admission of defeat and soul-searching, the entire opposition has chosen to pretend that “the results were after all...
A Brand of Sugar Called the ‘New Ottoman’
“Kemalism could not change the path of the main stream. Now we’re back where we were, and Kemalism is no longer an alternative. Now...
How Turkey’s Opposition Elite Misled Voters and Enabled Erdoğan
‘The wider failure of public intellectuals is twofold: first, raising the expectations of people who looked up to their analysis and were...
Turkey’s Secularists May Never Come Back to Power
The secular segment of society has a historical responsibility at this moment. It must see that life has changed, that it may never be the...
Why Journalists Don’t Feel Safe in Turkey
‘The report by the MLSA found that only 18, or 39.1 %, of journalists who stated they had been subjected to violence filed a complaint,...
Turkish Opposition At Each Other’s Throats
“For days now, we see double-dyed figures of the CHP mumble about’ ‘change’ without elaborating what they mean. Leadership, or...
Is Turkey Beyond the Opposition’s Grasp?
“Erdoğan does not make ‘foreign policy’ and (if you want the truth) we do not like foreign policy either. Erdoğan is...