Sahaf Emin Nedret İşli’nin, Soner Yalçın’ın 15 Mart 2009 tarihli Hürriyet gazetesinde yayınlanan “Bu aileyi tanımayan bu ülkeyi anlayamaz” başlıklı yazısına cevaben kaleme aldığı yazı. Sayın Soner Yalçın. Hürriyet gazetesinde yayımlanan 15 Mart 2009 tarihli “Bu aileyi tanımayan bu ülkeyi anlayamaz” başlıklı yazınızı okudum. Necmettin Hilav ve Selahattin Hilav’ı yakından tanımış bir kişi olarak yazınızda […]
Niyazi Dalyanci The U.S. President Barack Obama’s address to the Turkish National Assembly included all the expected topics ranging from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan to the sensitive issues of minority rights in Turkey and to the sensitive issue of the Armenian question. But he tried to sweeten his speech when mentioning topics that might annoy his […]
Sona eren yerel seçimlerin ardından sonuçlar bütün gece saniye saniye televizyon ekranlarına yansıdı. Özellikle İstanbul ve Ankara’da yaşanan başa baş çekişme yüzünden adayların sistemde çıkan sorunlar ve elektrik kesintilerini de şaibe adı altında değerlendirmelerine sebep oldu. Hürriyet: Sandıktan uyarıSeçmen sandıktan mesajını verdi. AKP, 2004 yerel seçimlerine göre yüzde3, 2007 genel seçimlerine göre ise yüzde 8 […]
Beş yıl boyunca görev yapacak yöneticilerini seçmek üzere sandıklara giden Türkiye seçmeni, iktidardaki Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi’ne (AKP) ciddi bir uyarı gönderdi. 22 Temmuz 2007 seçimlerinde yüzde 47 oy alarak ezici bir üstünlük sağlayan AKP, dün yapılan seçimlerde yaklaşık 8 puan oy kaybetti. Bu seçimlerde Türkiye çapında il genel meclisi bazında yüzde 38.95 oy alan […]
Niyazi Dalyanci “The results, so far, are not satisfactory,” Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said just after midnight at his party headquarters commenting on the incoming figures from the polling stations at Sunday’s local elections. “We will derive the necessary lessons from the message that the nation has given us and we will do the necessary […]
Serhan Yorgancı – Ufuk Ülger İstanbul’un ilk karayolu tüneli olan Piyalepaşa-Kağıthane tünelinin güvenliği Büyükşehir Belediyesi Trafik Müdürlüğü’ne bağlı zabıtalar tarafından sağlanıyor. Tünelin her iki girişinde bekleyen üçer kişilik trafik zabıtası ekibi, 1,6 kilometre uzunluğundaki tünele yük araçları ve yaya girişini engellemeye çalışıyor. İstanbul trafiğini rahatlatma iddiasıyla başlanan “7 Tepe 7 Tünel” projesinin ilk ayağı Piyalepaşa-Kağıthane […]
Francisco Castanon Fernandez “Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, “in the streets” — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, […]
Tunc KaracaySerdar Cevher The father of the evolution theory, 19th Century British scientist, Charles Darwin sparked an all out political fight in Turkey on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Darwin hit the headlines when, Prof. Omer Cebeci, the vice-chairman of Turkey’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK) stopped the printing of the March issue […]
Prof. Ahmet Davutoglu, the chief foreign policy advisor of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was in Washington on the eve of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Turkey, seeing top White House officials. At a press conference in Washington Davutoglu said that there has been differences of opinion between Ankara and the previous US administration, but […]
aNiyazi Dalyanci “President Barack Obama’s visit to Turkey underlines the importance the new US administration attributes to Turkey as a ‘pivotal’ nation in the region that might undertake more crucial functions beyond and above simply acting as a mediator,” wrote Cengiz Candar, veteran foreign affairs commentator of mainstream daily Radikal. “Why is he coming? Surely, […]
Asli Tunc First a television channel then an Internet site and now a daily newspaper with exactly the same name —HABERTURK — came into our lives on March 1. The insistence on this overused title for a new brand seemed to be puzzling for many people but despite the confusion, HABERTURK (HT) daily claimed to […]
Tunc Karacay In 2010 Istanbul will become the Cultural Capital of Europe. Within this context, many organizations from Turkey applied with their projects, big and small, to get funds from the European Union. Among these, there is a group of high school students dedicated to theater. If they get support for their project from Brussels, […]
Ariana Ferentinou The visit of Mrs. Hillary Clinton to Turkey about two weeks ago lasted less than 24 hours. Yet, it was the first by a high representative of the new Obama administration and generated enormous interest. Mrs. Clinton announced the visit to Turkey by president Obama in the beginning of April and flattered the […]
"Teori bağnazlığı" sanırım Taha Akyol’un icat ettiği bir kavram. Çünkü yazısı bilim, hipotez, bilimsel gerçek, yasa ve teori (kuram) kavramlarından bihaber olduğunu çok açık bir şekilde ortaya koyuyor.
Asli Tunc The presenter on a popular Turkish TV was trying to hide her feelings while reporting the crash of the Turkish Airlines plane in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago. Allegedly the Dutch emergency crew intentionally had not come to the rescue of the pilots and wounded passengers and kept them waiting for 45 […]
Good quality pork chops, bacon, sausages and other pork products are probably the most sought after delicatessen by the expats living in Istanbul. These are the products that are hard to come by in a Moslem country where consumption of pork is proscribed by religious rules. But still, there is a small and spotlessly clean […]
“You got to power, but you failed to be a proper man,” snapped Deniz Baykal, the leader of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) criticizing the language used by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his election campaigning. “This maganda style does not suit a prime minister,” he added. The definition of the slang word, […]
Demokratik Toplum Partisi (DTP) Eşbaşkanı Ahmet Türk, bugün Meclis’teki parti grup toplantısında 21 Şubat Anadili Günü nedeniyle, Türkçe giriş yaptığı konuşmasına Kürtçe devam etti. Canlı yayın yapan TRT 3’teki Meclis TV, konuşmanın Kürtçe bölümündeki ilk birkaç cümlenin ardından yayını kesti; ekrana çıkan spiker, “Anayasa ve Siyasi Partiler Kanunu gereğince Meclis kürsüsünde ve toplantılarında Türkçeden başka […]
“I found as I grew up that there were things I did not like which were beyond my power to put right. I developed a dislike for governments. The only solution for me, I decided, was to draw”. So began the career of Tan Oral, one of Turkey’s most consistently popular cartoonists who this week […]
News,etc Some say that Aphrodisias, in inland Aegean Anatolia is the most enchanting site in Turkey and they may be right. Ephesus is too large and well organized to be as appealing and Troy, as charming and mythical a picture as it conjures up, has not been sufficiently unearthed. Aphrodisias falls between the two. It […]
