July 5, 2018
The Başbağlar Massacre went down in history as the second massacre that happened in the first week of July in 1993. A group of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) cmae into the village of Başbağlar in Erzincan and killed 28 people. Despite the fact that 25 years passed, the subjects of the Başbağlar Massacre have not… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
June 25, 2018
Yesterday, Turkey’s parliamentary and presidential elections were held. Over 56.000 registered voters voted and there were 180.065 ballot boxes across the country. According to the Supreme Election Council (YSK) more than 1600.000 people voted for the first time. It is also known that the Syrian people given Turkish citizenship voted in the elections as… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
June 8, 2018
Almost half of the Syrian population has been displaced since the onset of the civil war in 2012. The Turkish province accommodating the highest number of Syrian refugees in the country is İstanbul with 20 per cent according to Ajans Press (The media monitoring company). According to Ajans Press, Istanbul accommodates 561.159 Syrian refugees.… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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EurActiv.com, Migration, Regional Policy, Syrian War, Turkey |
June 4, 2018
The poets do not only lead a life, they lead the emotions of us all. 55 years ago on June 3, Nazım Hikmet Ran, the first modern Turkish poet known in foreign literature circles as well died of a heart attack in Moscow. Nazım Hikmet is recognized all around the world as one of the… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
Today, thousands of students who have the dream to get education in prestigious high schools have taken the exam of LGS (Exam for Enterance to High Schools). I hereby want to publish a post dealing with the education system in Turkey within a historical perspective and I will also attempt to employ the… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
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EurActiv.com, Turkey, Uncategorized , AK Party, Althusser, Ataturk, Education, Foucault, Village Institutions |
May 29, 2018
Today is the 565. anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul. On 29 May, 1453 Fatih Sultan Mehmet Han, the 7th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire conquered Istanbul with the brave Army of Ottoman Turks. Many historians consider the conquest of the Ancient Roman city Constantinople marking the end of the Middle ages and the beginning… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
May 27, 2018
The history of Turkey has witnessed military interventions almost once in every decade. Before shedding light upon the 1960 intervention, it is important to look at the anatomy of civil-military relations. In Turkey, the concept of “Internal Enemy” has been regarded as an attempt to justify the role of the military in politics. In retrospect,… » read more
Posted by Begum Burak
