Posts Tagged: Turkey Secular
Islamism Is Stunting Turkish Academic Achievement
Turkey, with a population of 83 million and two Nobel Prizes won, ranks 62nd on the list of countries by Nobel laureates per capita. This...
Many Turks Feel They Don’t Belong in Their Own Country
Turks have many good reasons not to be proud of their country’s current standing in terms of wealth, democracy, civil liberties, and justice. Turkey is...
Turks Turn on Each Other — and the ‘Enemy Within’
For two despicable decades starting at the end of the 1960s, Italy was racked by the Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). That era was...
The Limits of Democracy in the Middle East
Programmatic do-gooders, people who think themselves morally bound to leap to the side of those who seem to be underdogs, unwittingly are asking Israel to...
Turkey’s ‘Democratic’ Reforms Are Anything But
Over dinner at the newest hot restaurant in Istanbul, my friend exhales his fury. "This is democracy?" he snaps. "What kind of democracy?" It has been...
Erdogan on Protests: There is an End to My Patience
Ynet - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, facing the biggest protests of his tenure, called on his supporters to prepare for pro-government rallies next weekend in Istanbul...
