Almost three weeks after the Jan. 7 parliamentary elections in Turkish Cyprus, four parties are set to start coalition talks to form a government, leaving out the incumbent National Unity Party (UBP), which got most of the votes: 36.5 percent.
Every year the Japanese government gives scholarships to foreign students willing to study in Japan. Until recently, few from Turkey had ever shown much interest in going to Japan. But this year there has apparently been a record number of applications.
In her book called “Wall,” prominent academic Deniz Ülke Arıboğan refers to the world famous series “Game of Thrones.” The scenario is based on developments taking place in a world separated by an icy wall 480 kilometers long. One of the mottos in the series is “winter is coming.” The concept of the wall attests not only to a winter that could last for years but also to a danger that will try to overcome the wall.
As the coup attempt was crumbling in the early hours of July 16, 2016, it must have come across as unimaginable to Greek officials that soldiers who have been trained to see Greeks as enemies would flee to “hostile territory.”
Did French President Emmanuel Macron last week finally put an end to Turkey’s EU membership prospects, offering an alternative short of membership? The answer depends on which angle you look at it from.
Bulgaria, which on Jan. 1 took over as the EU’s term president, did not list any plans relating to Turkey in its six-month program, according to a report in daily Hürriyet.
Turkey is a founding member of the Council of Europe, which remains one of the strongest institutions anchoring Turkey to Europe.
The Greek state refuses to call a Turk a Turk because the Turkish minority in Western Thrace is defined as a Muslim minority in the Lausanne treaty. Several associations set up by Turks of Western Thrace have been closed down because it had “Turkish” in its name.
The radicalization of Muslim communities in Europe especially has taken an alarming dimension.
