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BÜLENT KENEŞ Columnists
Weird affairs
Sometimes, one gets to thinking that one should be a soldier in Turkey. At times, it is impossible not to feel jealous about the privileged status of soldiers before the law.
NICOLE POPE Columnists
A painful process
Twenty-two is, according to the independent news Web site Bianet, the number of Turkish women killed by men in the month of June. This means that murders took place almost on a daily basis.
YAVUZ BAYDAR Columnists
The question in Washington, D.C.: how to keep the focus on Ergenekon
When visiting various “decision centers” and think tanks in Washington, D.C., one inevitably enters other areas than that of diplomacy and bilateral relations. Curiosity and confusion are mixed with some doses of concern and anxiety in two focal points of Turkish domestic policy:
ALİ BULAC Columnists
Mardin model
As the modern nation-state goes through tremors, the question of how diverse constituents can live together emerges as a fundamental question.
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ Columnists
As their hostage, I cannot criticize this government
This week I attended a luncheon in Ankara with foreign diplomats who wanted to discuss Turkey's human rights problems. We were two human rights experts invited to this meeting to give a briefing about recent developments in the human rights field.
HÜSEYİN GÜLERCE Columnists
Çiçek is an important person, but…
Senior Col. Dursun Çiçek was released within 18 hours of his arrest. Certainly the hasty appointment of someone to the empty member seat on the 14th High Criminal Court and the acceleration of the appeals process to his arrest have led to suspicion. The view that the military continues to cast a cloud over the judiciary is back on the agenda.
CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON Columnists
Zero tolerance
As you travel around Turkey you will probably notice a car pulled to the side of the road and a large rock or a pile of rocks on the road about 10 meters behind the car instead of the driver turning on the car's emergency lights. Watch out! Either the car has broken down or there has been an accident.
ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN Columnists
Boomerang
Strange events are transpiring in Turkey. Perhaps the events are not surprising for many Westerners, but for us they are unusual. We are facing a period where authoritarian ideas and authoritarian people are losing prestige.
FATMA DİŞLİ Columnists
Military-civilian relations on the way to normalization
Tuesday's National Security Council (MGK) meeting, which many expected would lead to a new storm between the government and the military, ended with consensus on a series of issues that have been occupying Turkey's agenda for days.

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Columnists
ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ
ALİ BULAC
ALİ H. ASLAN
AMANDA AKÇAKOCA
ANDREW FINKEL
ASIM ERDİLEK
AYŞE KARABAT
BERİL DEDEOĞLU
BERK ÇEKTİR
BÜLENT KENEŞ
BÜLENT KORUCU
CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON
DOĞU ERGİL
EKREM DUMANLI
ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN
FATMA DİŞLİ
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 SARIİBRAHİMOĞLU
MEHMET KAMIŞ
MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ
MICHAEL KUSER
MUHAMMED ÇETİN
MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE
MURAT YÜLEK
NICOLE POPE
ÖMER TAŞPINAR
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ
PAT YALE
ŞAHİN ALPAY
SELCUK GULTASLI
SUAT KINIKLIOĞLU
YAVUZ BAYDAR