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A road less traveled

29 Ekim 2007, Pazartesi

LONDON - As if my seeing Dr. Qameruddin at the International Conference on the “Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of The Gülen Movement” had not been surprising enough, his first sentence also caught me off guard. “I liked what I heard at the conference, and I came to appreciate what the people of this movement have been doing,” he said, adding, “Could you please introduce me to their local representative?”You do not know my old friend Qameruddin; if you did, you would have been as surprised

Anger management

25 Ekim 2007, Perşembe

How close are we to war?When the US was attacked by al-Qaeda militants on that fateful day of Sept. 11, the reaction of George W. Bush was to wage a war against Taliban forces in Afghanistan right away and against Saddam Hussein in Iraq a couple of months later. A mere soldier kidnapped in Palestine urged the Israeli Armed Forces to retaliate against the Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.Now many in Turkey are demanding the same kind of military action against the Kurdistan Workers'' Party (PKK) militants

A cheat with a noble cause

22 Ekim 2007, Pazartesi

A swift confession is in order: I cheated in yesterday''s referendum. I went into the voting booth, cast my vote by registering it a “YES” and left there with my heart not on the topic of the day but on topics of prospective referenda to come.Yesterday''s referendum had a readymade answer for almost everyone who took the trouble of going to the ballot box. If many citizens refrained from fulfilling their civic duty yesterday, they did so because of their belief that the topic of the referendum was

A war on two fronts

18 Ekim 2007, Perşembe

I happened to observe President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan from close range all day long on Sunday, and what I saw did not help to boost my morale. They were understandably very apprehensive.The occasion was a merry one: The daughter of President Gül was getting married, and we were there to witness the happiness of the young couple. The invitees at the daytime reception did not seem to be enjoying themselves as is more customary for such festive occasions. All gave the impression

Ain"t misbehaving

15 Ekim 2007, Pazartesi

I don''t think the decision-makers in the high echelons of American politics know what they are doing. They seem to feel that Turkey cannot sacrifice bilateral relations with the most powerful country on earth, the US, for a blemish as unimportant as accepting Armenians'' claims of “genocide” conducted so long ago by an empire that no longer exists. The US Congress is ready to pass a resolution on the Armenian genocide issue that will infuriate the Turks, and the US administration seems to think

We do not deserve this

11 Ekim 2007, Perşembe

Watching Turkish television nowadays is a painful experience. I am a news junkie, and as you may surmise, my eyes have always been glued to the screen, however, I haven''t really been able to watch TV news programs for quite some time now, for the simple reason that my stomach cannot take what I see -- dead bodies of young soldiers, their coffins on shoulders, religious ceremonies in the hometowns of the martyrs and the sad faces of their loved ones. The Kurdistan Workers'' Party (PKK) has struck

Those were the days, my friends

08 Ekim 2007, Pazartesi

Among all the things my children lack while growing up, what I regret most is that they do not have tenderness and affection from their elders. Not from elders in the family or the neighborhood elders an age apart, but from elders outside the family who are a little bit older than the others. When I was growing up, I always felt the watchful eyes of my elder “brothers” in the neighborhood and this gave me and my family a sense of confidence, a kind of camaraderie that I regretfully cannot see in

We have already arrived

04 Ekim 2007, Perşembe

When I heard Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt, chief of General Staff of the Turkish military, speaking at the new school year''s opening ceremony of the War Academies and saying that they had been following the preparations for constitutional change very closely by going through the draft text they acquired by their own means, I was suddenly relieved of any doubts about my country''s bright future. I am old fashioned and hard headed. I usually am the last person to accept the obvious, to the extent that I

What Aydın Doğan wants

01 Ekim 2007, Pazartesi

If you are big, it is only natural you seek to become bigger. But what if you are already huge? You cannot grow anymore, right? If you are huge, you only eventually attract envy and jealousy.Nowadays, this is the fate of Doğan Media Holding (DMH), the biggest media group in Turkey, which publishes the most influential newspaper in Turkey, Hürriyet, as well as many other daily papers and a large number of magazines. DMH also owns two of the highest-rated TV stations (Kanal-D and Star-TV) as well

Much ado about nothing

27 Eylül 2007, Perşembe

Here I am, back from a brief sojourn in the US and finding my own country radically changed. Surprise, surprise. When I left it a week ago Turkey was a unique country, one of a kind, a pearl in the whole world; but a week has changed many facets of it. Although the name of the country is still Turkey, the connotation of that name in the minds of some is completely different. Some have started to think Turkey increasingly resembles Malaysia.It has happened in a week.All hell broke loose after the