Monthly Archives: February 2011

His name is Metin Aslan, a young courthouse reporter in our Ankara office who has covered the high judiciary for quite some time. He has been following the landmark Ergenekon court case, the trial of suspects who allegedly conspired to … Continue reading →

I do not believe you can successfully use the Turkish template or replicate the Anatolian model in Middle Eastern and North African countries, where anti-government protests are spreading rapidly and taking down authoritarian leaders who have failed to live up … Continue reading →

Last week, I discovered a “mole” deep inside a mountain on the outskirts of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa. This was neither the kind we hear and see in fascinating FBI mole stories scripted in Hollywood nor the ones we … Continue reading →

DARFUR- I was not planning to end up in Darfur last week when I booked the flight to Ankara from Strasbourg, where I covered the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In fact, the next … Continue reading →

I did some laughing of my own when I heard officials from the Supreme Court of Appeals make the unconvincing argument that cases would take too long to reach the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) if and when … Continue reading →