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Supporters of Turkey’s main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu make heart shapes at a rally in Sivas on 11 May 2023. Photograph: Alp Eren Kaya/Depo Photos/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Europa,

This weekend, my country will choose. If the unlikely unity coalition of opposition parties beats the goliath that is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey will be able to tear off the straitjacket that it has worn for years. If the regime wins, however, we will be mourning a country that once was, that could have been.

This is a clash between the forces of autocracy and democracy, between cruelty and basic morals. There is a real chance that Erdoğan will lose because six opposition parties have formed a united coalition, led by the secularist Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Not since the huge anti-government Gezi park protests in 2013 have the people of Turkey put their eternal conflicts to the side like this in order to take on Erdoğan’s palace, which effectively runs everything from the economy to the judiciary.…  Seguir leyendo »

Europa,

Dos terremotos de magnitud 7,8 y 7,6 han asolado diez ciudades del sureste de Turquía. Un suceso así habría sido una catástrofe devastadora para cualquier país. Sin embargo, los habitantes del mío, como tantas veces en los últimos años, se debaten hoy una vez más entre el dolor ocasionado por un desastre natural y la legítima cólera que genera la desvergüenza del régimen, que no conoce límites. Muchos ya saben que los increíbles daños y la falta de ayuda no pueden atribuirse a la magnitud del desastre, sino a la falta de medidas, la inexistencia de un plan de contingencia y los despiadados intentos del régimen por encubrir su monumental metedura de pata.…  Seguir leyendo »

Europa

On Oct. 14, opposition lawmaker Ozgur Ozel drew the Turkish parliament’s attention to the unlikely odyssey of a senior judge. In recent months, judge Akin Gurlek has ruled on a whole string of otherwise unrelated high-profile cases. He rejected an appeal on the imprisonment of former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas. He upheld an outrageous ruling on the confiscation of the property of exiled journalist Can Dundar. And he affirmed the removal of legislative immunity from opposition lawmaker Enis Berberoglu.

Ozel accused the government of openly manipulating the judiciary by appointing Gurlek to different courts so that he could issue rulings according to the party line: “You are moving this executioner of justice around like a mobile guillotine.”…  Seguir leyendo »

Female Kurdish soldiers at a funeral, 13 October 2019. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images

MundoOriente Próximo,

In August 2014 Marie Claire published an unusual photo shoot. The women in the stylised images were not in fancy haute couture, but instead wore khaki jumpsuits and held machine guns. These were the female fighters of the YPG – the main Kurdish group of the Syrian Democratic Forces – in Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northern Syria.

These women were praised for their bravery in fighting against the most unfathomable evil of our times, Isis. The world championed them as an antidote to the death cult originating from the Middle East, which spread its ideas to Europe and the US.…  Seguir leyendo »

Europa,

C’est à 8 ans que j’ai entendu pour la première fois le mot « aube ». Et puis, un matin très tôt, j’ai été réveillée par la radio, très forte, dans le salon et j’ai trouvé mon père et ma mère qui fumaient nerveusement en écoutant la proclamation du coup d’Etat. Leur visage s’est assombri quand le jour s’est levé. C’était le 12 septembre 1980. Le 16 juillet 2016, les enfants turcs ont été réveillés par la télévision et ont trouvé leurs parents terrifiés de la même manière.

M et C, 8 et 6 ans, sont mes neveux, à moitié américains, les fils de mon frère.…  Seguir leyendo »

EuropaInternacionalTerrorismo Internacional,

“I hpoe those who criticize the broadcast ban die in another explosion and understand why the ban is crucial.”

The television anchor sat in shock as she heard these words from the man on the air with her. This man, who was wishing ill on critics of the government, kept talking. Waving his hand at her, he said, “Tell me, what are they going to do when they hear the news, ah, tell me?”

This unfolded on television, approximately 20 minutes after the horrific attacks at the Istanbul airport, and only a few minutes after the government’s broadcasting ban — a routine prohibition on airing too much specific information after such incidents — went into effect.…  Seguir leyendo »