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Nov 21, 2009

Turkey in Foreign Press


	Columnists

EKREM DUMANLI	Columnists
[Silent Turkey-4] Conservatives

There is one truth we need to underline even though it may come as strange to some: The most suppressed group in Turkey is the conservatives, even though they are the biggest group of people. Suppression did not happen as a result of pressure imposed by police force.

BERİL DEDEOĞLU	Columnists
Iran: a new phase in the nuclear crisis

We are on the threshold of a new phase in the Iranian nuclear crisis. Iran recently declined the international community’s proposal to stock 75 percent of its enriched uranium outside Iran to prevent the country from controlling enough uranium to make a bomb.

ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ	Columnists
Finish the executions before Atatürk arrives

When Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen, who has a background in diplomacy, defended the tragic massacre in Dersim (now Tunceli) as he was listing his objections to the democratic initiative, this inevitably led to the re-opening of a dark page in Turkey’s recent history.

CHARLOTTE MCPHERSON	Columnists
Traces of Ottoman Turks

When landing at the international airport in Budapest I was impressed with the efficiency and the music. Joseph Haydn fans were listening to his music everywhere as Hungarians marked the 200th anniversary of the celebrated composer’s death. Only learning about the special concerts upon my arrival, I was disappointed that no tickets could be found.

MEHMET KAMIŞ	Columnists
It wasn’t a slip of the tongue for Öymen

It has become clear that the statements Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen made about the Dersim massacre were not a slip of the tongue but a revelation of his thoughts. As everyone knows, Öymen’s real business is diplomacy. In other words, he comes from a tradition of weighing his sentences several times before he utters them and hiding his messages in between the lines.

MÜMTAZER TÜRKÖNE	Columnists
MHP’s nationalism and the Kurdish issue

Nationalism is the party doctrine of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). In other words, nationalist ideology is the raison d’être of this party. This doctrine implies that all characteristics of the party are directly based on nationalism, giving the MHP a basic direction in all areas.

ABDULLAH BOZKURT	Columnists
Restoring the Ankara axis in Turkish foreign policy

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu does not seem to be distracted or shaken a bit by articles and news stories that have appeared in the US and European press, claiming that Turkey has changed its orientation from West to East.

GÜRKAN ZENGİN	Columnists
Hunting for peace in the Middle East

Turkey’s performance in the last seven years of its foreign policy has been a success story. Not stopping at addressing problematic relations with its immediate neighbors, the country has transferred its vision of regional peace from the Western Balkans to Afghanistan’s east, from the northern Black Sea region to southern Africa.

KLAUS JURGENS	Columnists
Karzai and Obama; Guantanamo; Thierry -- what about the new EU president?

One would have thought that Brussels occupied most, if not all European TV station’s prime spots last night; having chosen to watch the BBC -- famous for its honest news brokerage -- I expected nothing less. I had already heard that a special summit of EU leaders had decided on whom to elect for both president and a new foreign policy chief, but no news coverage so far. Perhaps breaking news a few minutes later? Far from it; only a few words in the news ticker!

KATHY HAMILTON	Columnists
Disconnecting the video games

If you listen to my son, there are times when he is positive that I am the meanest, cruelest mother to ever walk the earth. This attitude rears its ugly head when he wants to spend time playing video games.

FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK	Columnists
Military plots seem to have no end

A new document uncovered by the Taraf daily on Thursday revealed yet another series of sinister military plans to destroy the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) through the assassination of prominent non-Muslim figures in Turkey and then putting the blame for the killings on the government.


	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