The people must choose who defends Turkey’s national interests

22 June 2019 | Opinion

There is no shortage of important items on Turkey’s political agenda. Ahead of Sunday’s Istanbul …

Opinion
Mainstream Western media has lost its credibility

12 June 2019
By Yusuf Özkır
The Western media's interest in Turkey has steadily increased, and this has two dimensions. First, they are establishing new media outlets in Turkey and becoming entrenched in the domestic market. Lately, the launch of a joint Turkish-language YouTube channel called +90 by the public international broadcasters of Germany, France, Britain and the U.S. has drawn attention. Another interesting development was the launch of a Turkish news website by the British online newspaper, The Independent.
Opinion
AK Party embodies unceasing spirit of reform

1 June 2019
By Burhanettin Duran
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled his administration's new judicial reform package on Thursday.
Opinion
Violence by French police in the spotlight

5 May 2019
By Meryem İlayda Atlas
It began on Nov. 17, 2018 as a protest against fuel price rises and quickly evolved into a middle-class revolt and subsequently into a movement against French President Emmanuel Macron, who is seen as "favoring the bosses." It spread across France with university students and even high school students joining in protests.

AK Party shapes general trends of both opposition, society
1 April 2019 By Meryem İlayda Atlas
The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) received the 43.16 percent of the vote in the local elections of 2014, the highest of all participating parties. For the local elections of March 31, it received 45 percent, increasing 2 percent, and came out as the clear victor again. However, the country's major cities, such as Istanbul and Ankara, voted differently in the majority, which shows the power of the legitimate election rallies in Turkey.
A question of ‘survival’ versus ‘Kurdistan’
8 March 2019 By Burhanettin Duran
Ahead of this month's municipal elections, the main ideological debate in Turkey revolves around the question of national survival.
Can Turkish publishing tackle the current currency crisis?
5 February 2019 By Mehmet Akif Memmi
The year 2018 was extremely tough for both Turkish finance and the economy and prompted a number of still-ongoing ups and downs in many sectors; however, the publishing industry was not one of them..
The fifth anniversary of defending Turkish democracy against coups
25 December 2018 By Yusuf Özkır
Around five years ago, Turkey's democratic system and elected government were targeted by a judicial coup attempt.
Populism is no way to challenge threats
19 December 2018 By Burhanettin Duran
Neither a populist discourse nor a violent uprising can help opposition win the upcoming elections, as Turkish democracy has recently proven how strong it is in the face of such crises

ekim, 2020

23oct14:00- 16:00Web Panel : Security and Societal Compromise for Prosperous Afghanistan

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Afghan people deserve to enjoy the wealth of their homeland, live in peace, feel the opportunities of safe and secure environment. Unfortunately, Afghanistan struggled and suffered to establish such an environment for decades. The issue fields in question can be categorized by interventions of the great powers, lack of security and internal power vacuum, political turmoil, external interference so far so forth. The intervention to Afghanistan in 2001 and the experienced discourse onwards indicates that they are Afghans who will establish a safe and secure environment, set a social compromise to build a promising country and obtain prosperity by the natural wealth of Afghanistan.

The panel will delve why and how to build Afghanistan in the light recent developments. The peace and reconciliation process, along with relevant undertakings, will be discussed if they give birth to a ‘hope’ that Afghan citizens need. The argument of the panel is that Afghans are capable of building a secure and safe environment by themselves. The main question to scrutinize this argument is “How can internal peace be achieved in Afghanistan from a wider perspective?”. In this sense, the sub questions are shaped pending to political, security, economic aspects of the overall issue field in question. Each panelist is expected to deliver two rounds of speech scrutinizing probable courses.

Note: The web-panel discussion will be held in English. It will be broadcasted via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Journalists and embassies will be invited as audience.

Web-panel discussion on Friday, 23th of October 2020 at 2 p.m. local time in Istanbul / 3:30 p.m localt time in Kabul.