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Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen’s comments on the Dersim Rebellion have led Turkey to examine the rebellions that were sparked during the early years of the republic from a different perspective.
Cafer Solgun, an Alevi writer and researcher, has said the categorization of cemevis – Alevi houses of worship -- and their dedes, or spiritual leaders, by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) cannot be part of a “well-intentioned”...
Childs chose the Central Anatolian town of Sivas to pay off Achmet, the loyal araba driver who had guided him from the Black Sea port of Samsun. During the first day’s journey from Sivas, Childs claimed to have been attacked by...
Armenian information agency 9 November 2009 Last week token visit of Turkish President Abdullah Gul to Tunceli (province in the Eastern Anatolia region, Turkey) worship house did not produce a strong effect, as thousands...
Weather Turkey, Ankara weather, weather weekend forecast season, the weather in the mountains, the weather on the coast, the weather on the beach, sea water temperature, weather in the capital, the weather in the mountains, the...
Turkey is for the first time settling accounts with juntas that have not been questioned since the May 27, 1960 coup d’état. It is for this reason that they are so flagrant. They undersign conspiracy plans against the nation...
The time of “quasi democracy” is nearing its end. For decades, both Turkey’s allies as well as the powerful coalition of the military, media and politicians-as-state-servants -- the “unholy triangle” -- lived and let live in a...
Six people died during floods caused by heavy rain throughout the country this weekend, with the latest death coming on Monday in the Eruh district of Siirt. One of the teachers, Arif Yaşar (23), drowned in the floodwaters....
A 34-year-old woman who had been receiving treatment for H1N1 influenza in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır died yesterday. The Health Ministry announced that with the death of the woman, whose name was not made public,...
Regardless of whether we call it a democratic initiative or a Kurdish opening, it is obvious that we are entering a new era. A group of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants who crossed the Turkish border after departing...
