February 15, 2014

Now, speaking Turco-Tweetish is more challenging

Arzu Kaya Uranlı

“The cell phones you have now have more computing power than the Apollo space capsule, and that capsule couldn’t even Tweet. So just imagine the opportunities you have in that sense,” Fareed Zakaria, opinion writer for The Washington Post, once said in a commencement speech at Duke University.

Turkey, ‘The Devil's Advocate' and ‘Titanic'

Özcan Keleş*

Dear Reader, I have sinned! I have binged on Turkish politics these past two months. Let he who knows Turkey and/or Turkish but has not done the same cast the first disapproving thought in my direction.

"Peace and Sustainable Development: A Two-Way Relationship" Panel

The Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) co-organized a panel on the relationship between peace and sustainable development with the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the UN and Peace Islands Institute on February 7, 2014 at the United Nations (UN).

Somali denies allegations that ‘aid supplies did not reach camp'

Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Abdi Dirshe denied on Friday allegations that no donations were ever sent to a camp located in the capital of Somalia by Turkish aid organization Kimse Yok Mu, stating that they have never worked with Kamil Kemal Güller, who was allegedly the source of the article in the Sabah daily which carried the claims.

An interesting debate in the European Parliament

Beril Dedeoğlu

The European Union is already preparing its progress report on Turkey, an annual ritual the European Commission (EC) must perform for all candidate countries. It is not hard to guess the tone of this year's report.