December 29, 2014

2014: Towards an “Empire of Fear”

Adem Yavuz Arslan

As another year comes to a close it is customary to sum up the ending one and making projections for the coming.

Sadly, 2014 has been a lost year. The corruption files did away with the AKP’s 12 years in one stroke.

TUSİAD chairman says does not see ‘parallel structure’ within state

Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD) Chairman Haluk Dinçer has said that he does not see any “parallel structure” within the state as is asserted by pro-government circles, adding that discharging some police officers on accusations of illegal wiretapping does not prove the existence of such a structure.

Turkey, caliphate and Erdoğan

Abdullah Bozkurt

…Just as all Muslims must oppose the ideology of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), vicious terrorist groups that plan to overthrow governments in Muslim nations and establish a caliphate based on their perverted interpretation of Islam, Turks must also confront efforts by Erdoğan and his ideological allies to turn this great country into a bastion for a hypocritical authoritarian regime that simply abuses Islamic references to sustain its power.