The Bad
- 02.Apr
- Education, sunni-fied: Stay at home and memorise the Koran
The coming generation of Turkish youth will be blasted into oblivion thanks to a complete re-haul of the Turkish education system, dubbed “4+4+4″. Protests across the country have been crushed by the Fethullah police, who were, as ever, trigger-happy with tear gas and water cannons. The reform has only been on the agenda for the [...]
- 14.Mar
- Turkish Time Travel presents: Balyoz, Ergenekon and Fenerbahçe match-fixing cases
The Turkish police and judiciary are manipulating dates and including incoherent information in the biggest court cases of the country’s history: Ergenekon, Balyoz and match-fixing.
- 17.Feb
- The ECHR and Özkan’s hand grenade oil lamps
The European Court of Human Rights turned down jailed Turkish journalist and politician Tuncay Özkan’s appeal against his unlawful detainment. Do they know what’s going on?
- 17.Dec
- The real number of Turkish journalists in prison
An accurate number of journalists imprisoned in Turkey can be found here. The CPJ has picked and chose only a handful when the reality is quite different.
The Good
- 12.Dec
- AKP-Fethullah clash and the Fenerbahçe issue
Greed is unstoppable and can cause the best of partnerships to collapse. Could this be happening to the ruling AKP and the Fethullah Gülen sect? The poorly constructed match fixing probe gives us some clues.
- 27.Jul
- A Mustafa Balbay poem in English
A poem by journalist Mustafa Balbay who is under judicial custody that’s more like a jail sentence – he’s been behind bars for longer than two years, like his colleague Tuncay Özkan.
Features
- 01.Feb
- Nâzım and Fethullah in the same article
Turkish minister Suat Kılıç told off some students for not knowing a Fethullah Gülen poem. Bu there were better poets to remember that day.
- 17.Nov
- Ahmet Şık’s Imam’s Army: The First 6 Pages In English
Jailed journalist and writer Ahmet Şık’s book about Fethullah Gülen infiltration of Turkish police is out. TurkeyEmergency has translated the first six pages into English.
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- Nâzım and Fethullah in the same article
Turkish minister Suat Kılıç told off some students for not knowing a Fethullah Gülen poem. Bu there were better poets to remember that day.
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