Monthly Archives: December 2014

The narrative, behavior pattern and policy decisions of Turkey’s chief political Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdoğan suggests that he believes the caliphate can be resurrected, with himself as the sole contender to become caliph, thereby gaining autonomous political authority over at … Continue reading →

It must be crystal clear by now that political Islamist zealots, led by the divider-in-chief Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will do anything and everything to stay in power, even if that means suspending the rule of law and trampling constitutional rights. … Continue reading →

The jailing of Turkey’s top national TV network manager using trumped-up and abusive anti-terror charges because his station aired a popular fictional TV series that delegitimized terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, is the latest in a series of draconian measures … Continue reading →

The arbitrary arrests and growing harassment of journalists as part of the total onslaught on the right to dissent in Turkey will likely be followed by the degrading punishment of each and every critical soul against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s … Continue reading →

Muzzling the free and independent press with politically orchestrated raids on the offices of Turkey’s bestselling newspaper and a leading national TV network is perhaps the final nail in the coffin for this fledgling democracy that has already been battered … Continue reading →

Against the background of shocking revelations by the anonymous whistleblower Fuat Avni in which he claimed the government would round up some 150 independent and critical journalists in a nationwide sweep, I refuse to be intimidated by the crooked political … Continue reading →

The most significant damage the greedy political Islamists in Turkey have inflicted upon the nation is not the graft in billions of dollars of unearned income, but rather the erosion of the country’s very values in terms of democratic principles, … Continue reading →

Turkey’s political Islamist-ruled government is very much obsessed with inflating the number of bilateral deals it signs during high level visits and exchanges, when in fact most, if not all of these deals contain little in terms of substance and … Continue reading →