From the State Mindset to the Ruling Bloc
Ümit Aktaş, who summarized all aspects of the ‘state mind’ debate initiated by CHP Central Executive Committee member Bülent Kuşoğlu in his article titled ‘Where Does the ’State Mind’ Fit into the Ruling Bloc?,” describes the ruling bloc...
THE ARCHITECTS OF DIVISION ARE DELIVERING A SPEECH ON UNITY: WHO SPLIT THE CHP?
Who sowed the seeds of discord, and who watered them?
DIVISION IS A RESULT, NOT A CAUSE
Reducing the crisis currently unfolding within the CHP to a mere leadership dispute amounts to a deliberate misreading of the situation.
Because the reality is...
Loyalty or Political Ingratitude?
There are some phrases in Turkish politics that become slogans as they are repeated and unquestionable as they become slogans. In recent years, one of them is undoubtedly the phrase “he lost 13 elections”...
The Return of the King and the Rush of the Jackals
Mr. Savcı Sayan's statements are remarkable. Because he states that a section within the AK Party supports Mr. Özgür Özel and openly criticizes this. With this...
June: Month of the Unforgotten and the Indispensable
Some months hold more significance than just a date on the calendar. June is such a month for Turkey. It marks not only the beginning of summer but also this country’s...
We’re building hospitals—so why can’t we build people?
A joke sometimes reveals not just a person, but the mindset of an entire era.
Sometimes a joke conveys in a few minutes what a book of hundreds of pages on politics, sociology, or history cannot...
YOU CAN'T JUST SAY WHAT'S DONE IS DONE?
The glass will be cleaned first! Absolute nullity is not a financial (economic) matter; it is a property matter, that is, a matter of public order. Marriages performed without a registrar, contracts without notarization...
Middle Class in the Value and Equilibrium Economy
Social Stability, Human Capital and the Backbone of Sustainable Production: For a long time, the economics literature has long been interested in reading growth only in terms of capital accumulation, technological development and the amount of labor force.
Why Should We Kill Şükrü Erbaş's Hatred?
Why Should We Kill Şükrü Erbaş's Hatred? In his poems, Şükrü Erbaş addressed the conscience and was the voice of the silent majority. He resented those who slept well. He was angry at those who closed his door, pulled his curtains, heated his house with someone else's fire. “He said.
IS IT THE TRANSFORMATION OF TURKEY’S DEMOCRACY CRISIS INTO A SECURITY CRISIS, OR IS IT A CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY FOR ÖZGÜR ÖZEL’S CHP?
At a time when debates over the party convention, criminal cases, rulings of absolute nullity, and questions of legitimacy have intensified within the CHP, Özgür Özel’s article in Newsweek, written for the international public, has drawn attention...
The Lost Years of Turkish History and Kurdistan
Someone who thinks deeply about the Kurdish issue, the peoples of the Middle East, human rights, and pressing social issues and problems; who is interested in science and philosophy; who loves humor and jokes...
PARALLEL LINES, PARALLEL STRUCTURES, AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
There is an issue that media outlets and hired pens praising Manisa MP Özgür Özel should take note of: Parallel; lines that are equidistant from one another along their entire length and...
The AKP Is a Disaster
Some governments fail. Some make the wrong decisions. Others, however, squander not only the present but also a country’s future. Turkey’s last twenty-three years have been precisely such a period...
I AM ASHAMED
I am ashamed... Establishing the broadest social consensus in the history of the Republic, bringing together every color of this country at the same table with the Halil İbrahim Table, and winning nearly 49 percent of the votes...
Ottoman and Mode of Production Debates
One of the most important issues that social scientists and socialist politicians in Turkey have debated and pondered from the past to the present is whether the Ottoman mode of production was an ‘Asiatic mode of production’...
MHP'S SHOCKING WORDS TO IMAMOĞLU: “VIRUS, BRAZEN, BRAZEN!”
Yıldıray Çiçek, an advisor to MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli, slammed the statements of arrested Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor and CHP's presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu against MHP.
MHP LEADER STATE GARDENER: WHAT HAPPENED DOES NOT SUIT THE CHP
MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli, who made important statements at his party's group meeting, made striking evaluations about the hot developments in CHP after the "absolute nullity" decision....
WE ARE NOT A CRITICAL TYPE, WE ARE PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE
The expression “criminal types” used by Manisa MP Mr. Özgür Özel in his statement about the process in front of CHP Headquarters is an unfortunate expression directed only at the people who were there...











