- Today's Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news

About us

|

Advertising

|

Contact

|

Get Home Delivery

|

Archive

Nov 07, 2009

Turkey in Foreign Press


	Columnists

BERİL DEDEOĞLU	Columnists
EU summits and EU citizens

European Union summits are precious laboratories for social scientists. During these summits, 27 leaders come together in order to discuss several matters and to reach a consensus on 500 million people’s economic problems, political rights, taxes and even decisions about the quality of the air they breathe.

ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ	Columnists
Turkey’s grand sin: self-confidence

The democratic transformation Turkey has recently been going through and its activist foreign policy have attracted criticism from certain circles. After all, the dominant powers had previously decided on a role for Turkey, its politics, economy, bureaucracy, military and foreign policy establishment.

MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE	Columnists
The PKK as an obstacle before resolution of the Kurdish issue

This headline was inspired by a question that has occupied a central place in many discussions; nationalist politicians and military actors have argued that Turkey’s ongoing problem is a terrorism issue.

CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON	Columnists
The culture of corruption

I promised in my last column, “Rich man, poor man,” that I would share the results of a survey conducted in America. Author Stuart Briscoe, in his book titled “Vital Truths to Shape Your Life,” claims that in survey that was conducted among some ordinary Americans the following answers were given to the question, “What would you do for $5 million?”:

ABDULLAH BOZKURT	Columnists
EU cannot sustain drug policy without Turkey

I did not know we had been extended an invitation to become a full member of the European Union, the most powerful bloc of European countries on the continent. Apparently we have been dragging our feet and shying away from saying yes to the bloc for some time now.

GÜRKAN ZENGİN	Columnists
Did Barzani get the message?

Regardless which perspective you look at it from, the visit to Iraq last week by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was “historic.” Although his trips to Basra and Mosul without stopping in the capital of Baghdad had special meanings of their own, it was his stop in Arbil, the heart of the northern Kurdish region, that made his visit “historic.”

KLAUS JURGENS	Columnists
The economic crisis, Shakespeare style: Act 5

On Thursday of this week Howard Davies, the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), addressed a conference at İstanbul’s Bahçeşehir University. He spoke about the current global economic crisis and whether we can detect signs of a recovery.

KATHY HAMILTON	Columnists
New beginnings or not?

Several readers have e-mailed to inquire about the latest news of Ali Adem and his classmate Efe. Followers of this column will recall that Efe had been causing problems in both the classroom and in the local park.

FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK	Columnists
A new polemic: GMO regulations

The adoption of a regulation last month regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has led to heated debate in Turkey, with environmental organizations, consumer associations and many other nongovernmental organizations lashing out against the regulation, saying it poses a great risk to public health and allows GMOs to enter Turkey freely.


	Columnists
	ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ
	ABDULLAH BOZKURT
	ALİ BULAC
	ALİ H. ASLAN
	AMANDA AKÇAKOCA
	ANDREW FINKEL
	ASIM ERDİLEK
	AYŞE KARABAT
	BEJAN MATUR
	BERİL DEDEOĞLU
	BERK ÇEKTİR
	BÜLENT KENEŞ
	BÜLENT KORUCU
	CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON
	DOĞU ERGİL
	EKREM DUMANLI
	EMRE USLU
	ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN
	FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK
	FEHMİ KORU
	FİKRET ERTAN
	GÜRKAN ZENGİN
	HASAN KANBOLAT
	HÜSEYİN GÜLERCE
	İBRAHİM KALIN
	İBRAHİM ÖZTÜRK
	İHSAN DAĞI
	İHSAN YILMAZ
	KATHY HAMILTON
	KERİM BALCI
	KLAUS JURGENS
	LALE KEMAL
	MEHMET KAMIŞ
	MICHAEL KUSER
	MUHAMMED ÇETİN
	MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE
	MURAT YÜLEK
	NICOLE POPE
	ÖMER TAŞPINAR
	ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ
	PAT YALE
	ŞAHİN ALPAY
	SELÇUK GÜLTAŞLI
	SUAT KINIKLIOĞLU
	YAVUZ BAYDAR