Cry(obank) baby!
Despite getting its name from a mischievous toddler with a flesh and arrow and a misplaced sense of irony, Erospolis openly admits that it is no fan of children; by definition, it prefers hedonist pleasures, heavy controversy and other heavenly pursuits.
The sign of a watermelon rind
“Am I getting worried futilely?” I ask myself sometimes. When we say, “The economy is not in good shape. We will have great problems this year and in 2010. We have to take action,” nobody lifts a finger; they try to change the subject.
In love with Arab Islamists
For so long, I have argued that the AKP’s foreign policy is Islamist. Well, I stand corrected: the AKP’s foreign policy does not have a generic Islamist tinge; rather the party is infatuated with Arab Islamist causes.
It seems we are afraid of cease-fire
To understand who has what business we need to follow developments more closely.
The winds blow in the direction of PKK terror decreasing and the Kurdish issue losing its former weight.
You’ve got mail, Your Excellency! (II)
Last week, this column was host to an expatriate reader’s widely “optimistic” comments on Turkey’s new (or, rather, newly formalized) foreign policy czar. Today, there is another expatriate guest, with rather more “cautious” comments on Ahmet Davutoğlu as our new foreign minister.
No ’can’t’ if one really believes
Yesterday, the nation marked Youth and Sports Day, a national holiday celebrated to mark the birth of modern Turkey’s independence struggle 90 years ago. We used the moment as did many others to reaffirm the principles of the Republic, the promise of youth and the carriage of values across generations.
Neo-Ottomanism
Tomorrow Turkey will mark the anniversary of the May 19, 1919, arrival of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) and his friends in Samsun to start the Turkish War of Independence, a long and painful struggle that succeeded not only in bringing an end to occupation in most parts of the territory defined in the “National borders” resolution [...]
New political guidance needed for Turkey-Greece ties
The current status of the Turkish-Greek ties is really not very promising. The momentum needed to further improve relations is lost. Instead, a silent war escalating over the Aegean has been observed in recent months.
Cheerleading’s unbearable lightness
Last week, I provided an introduction to the rationale behind the “all is well, send the doc away” camp. However, I failed to mention that this philosophy is in fact the latest reincarnation of the macro cheerleading that has been going on for some time.
The need to speak with one voice
One cannot expect total harmony among leaders at the top of the state’s hierarchy. However, whenever there is a divergence of views, leaders at the top have to do their utmost to find common ground and speak with one voice to the outside word.