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Hagia Sophia is at the centre of a political controversy in Turkey. The conversion of the museum housed in a 6th century Christian church in Istanbul into a mosque by presidential decree sparked a big debate in the country. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s move is seen as a turning point for the Turkish president, having generated religious, cultural, social and political consequences.

The main opposition party-ruled Istanbul is under attack by a “dangerous mindset“, the leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said on Saturday, marking the anniversary of the Ottoman Empire’s conquest of the city.

27 May in 20:30 The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) wants all political parties in the Turkish Parliament to participate in constitutional reform efforts as it would emphasize wide support from the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday, Daily Sabah reports. Speaking at the AK Party’s extended provincial heads meeting on Istanbuls Democracy and Freedom Island to mark the 61st anniversary of the 1960 coup, Erdoğan touched upon the efforts for a new constitution...

Pomaks to Bahçeli: You cannot make us Turkish, we are proud Pomaks and Greek citizens Search for: The Pomaks of Thrace did not stand idly and responded to the fake allegations made by both the Turkish Foreign Ministry and Devlet Bahçeli, a government partner of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Recently, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a teleconference with 17 students of the Pachnis school in the prefecture of Xanthi and spoke about the “young Greeks” of “Pomakochoria�...

On a boiling hot day in Istanbul last July, hundreds of thousands of people gathered outside the Hagia Sophia to celebrate President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s declaration that the historic building the modern state’s secular founders had made a museum would be turned back into a mosque. The decision was widely perceived outside the country as a turning point in Turkey’s relationship with the west. In retrospect, the crowds in Sultanahmet Square...

His critics often joke that when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledges democratic reforms, one should run away immediately. His latest charm offensive in November, aimed at repairing Turkeys badly-strained ties with the West and Western institutions, has proven that the joke still holds value. "We dont see ourselves elsewhere but in Europe," Erdoğan said on November 21. "We envisage building our future together with Europe." Two days later, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar described NATO as th...

According to Turkish news site Gazete Duvar, a total of 128,872 people have been indicted in the past six years for insulting Erdoğan. Of those, 27,824 had to stand trial and 9,556 were convicted. Apparently, Erdoğan wants a democratic system without opposition. But who cares about the Constitution in a country where the governing bloc is proposing to close down even the Constitutional Court, in addition to banning opposition parties? All these autocratic measures occurred in the less than h...

Last Updated On: Apr 27 2021 04:47 Gmt+3 Independent opposition deputy Ümit Özdağ on Monday targeted Garo Paylan, an Armenian deputy from the pro-Kurdish left-wing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), over Paylan’s comments supporting the recognition of the Armenian genocide. “Talat Pasha didn’t exile patriotic Armenians but those who were backstabbers like you,” Özdağ tweeted in response to Paylan. “You will also go through a Talat Pasha experience when it is time, and you should...

The Ottoman Road Untraveled April 27, 2021 | By Alberto M. Fernandez The Biden administrations recognition of the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks initially received a relatively muted response by Turkish officials. Foreign Minister Cavusoglu tweeted "We have nothing to learn from anybody on our own past," while Erdoğans nationalist political ally Devlet Bahçeli retorted that Turkeys history was "faultless" with "neither genocides nor massacres" by the Turkish nation. ...

April 20, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from New Left Review — Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural monuments and beautiful beaches. ‘A model partner’, Obama affirmed in 2009, as he congratulated the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). 1 Today, with perhaps 50,000 oppositionists in ja...