No country can be competitive economically and credible democratically without highest standarts of gender equality. The Turkey’s civilisational roots and aspirations to live in an advanced information society and democracy in the 21st …

Please see below today’s press release of PES President Sergei Stanishev on Turkey’s accession to the EU and responsibility of European & Turkish conservatives’ responsibility for the current impasse. Twelve years after granting…

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA ISTANBUL (AP) — If a project has no deadline, is it really a project? What do you call a negotiation process in which the partners can’t talk about key issues? These are existential times for Turkey’s campaign to jo…

It is time to banish wishful thinking about Islamism By Ayaan Hirsi Ali February 8, 2012 A year ago many western commentators were celebrating an Arab spring. The internet generation personified by Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive, would t…

Click here to download as pdf file >> Turkish News_Folder,13 Feb 2012 Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s Editorial at Washington Post CHP Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu wrote an editorial to the influential American daily Washington Post on 6 Feb, which need…

Listen:   Sarpinto – Schengen Macht Frei by Sarpinto   “Schengen is the name of the discriminatory and ill-designed visa regime of the European Union” Sarp Yeletaysi from Istanbul found a creative way of criticizing the Sche…

  The CHP as Turkey’s social-democratic party and main opposition has always been a firm defender of EU’s enlargement to Turkey. CHP asks better fulfillment of the EU’s Copenhagen political criteria by Turkey and more regulatory and…

The Brussels chief criticized the AKP for not doing enough to open the three EU accession-negotiation chapters – those on competition, social policy and public procurement – that carry no political baggage. “The government remains unwilling to o…