Although the U.S. President Barack Obama gave a variety of messages to make everybody happy during his two-and-a-half day state visit, opinion makers and politicians keep talking about what really was the concrete outcome of his presence in Turkey. Obama paid ample homage to Kemal Ataturk and his secularism in his address to the Turkish […]
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February 21 is the International Mother Tongue Day, said Ahmet Turk, the leader of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) addressing his party’s parliamentary group meeting at the Turkish National Assembly. “Everybody should be able to use his mother tongue freely,” he went on in Turkish. DTP leader then switched on to Kurdish and TRT 3, […]
The Turkish public, at least a part of it, had to wait for 50 years to learn what really happened during the pogrom against the Christian inhabitants of Istanbul in September 1955. In 2005 Dilek Guven’s very detailed doctorate thesis on the Septembriana presented at the Bochum University in Germany was published in Turkish. Same […]