The left-right grand coalition government in northern Cyprus has collapsed due to its failure to deliver on exactly what it promised to do in the first place: undertake long-overdue reforms and achieve the restructuring of the Turkish Cypriot public administration
The participation of a collection of Western consuls-general at the opening session of the Can Dündar-Erdem Gül court case, which has become a symbol on the limits of press freedom in Turkey, has placed a big question mark on the country’s relations with the West
The Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders of the divided island of Cyprus are continuing talks presumably aimed at reuniting the island in a federation, the parameters of which remain aloof
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said his administration was determined to undertake whatever possible to finish within a month the writing of a new constitution that will carry Turkey to a Turkish-style presidential rule
It is not an exaggeration, nowhere is safe anymore
Terrorism is such a menace that no one can assume to have immunity of any sort
From the far end corner of a hotel conference room packed with young journalists and journalism students from various parts of the country, I was observing with great excitement a course on data journalism when a young colleague gently whispered to my ear, “Sorry, I have just heard the was a blast on İstiklal Avenue [in Istanbul].”
What is normal or abnormal? Who can decide? Does it depend on the conditions in a country or international conjecture? Does the mood of a president, a prime minister or a police officer help to make a decision on it?
The third Ankara blast within five months - or the second blast in less than one month - may indicate many things, but particularly the total fiasco of the Turkish intelligence network that often boasts of being a great success at home and abroad
