Category: English
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Three Branches of Government: Turkey’s Struggle to Understand Democracy
Turkey’s problems in understanding democracy, human rights and freedoms were always -at least partly- structural. In the last twelve years, the government in power made it practically official. Since the Republic of Turkey was founded, we have tried to meet civilised standards, sometimes it worked out alright, most of the time it did not. However,…
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Turkey: The Brilliant Societal Values in Our Genetics
In this article, I will be trying to show the reader the truth about the claims of “good Turkish values” in the light of a study by Prof. Yılmaz Esmer, Turkey Values Atlas, 2012. I will also partly include some other research and make some comments at the end. I actually wrote the Turkish version…
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My article on Turkey’s Constitutional Court “striking down things” published on the CGCS Blog
The Constitutional Court as a Contingency Plan for Turkey’s Future Regarding the Internet | CGCS.
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Mr. Aslan, This “IS” the Real Islam
This post will be about Reza Aslan’s response to Bill Maher’s comments about ISIS and Islam. Here is a YouTube link to that response. I will not summarize it, so, I suggest that you watch it (it is not too long) before reading my comments.