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...Osman Nuri Kabaktepe, chair of the AKP’s Istanbul branch, added that Istanbul serves “as a window on to the rest of the country”, whether it is “culture, business, sports or the economy”....
...The republic was founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a hero in the eyes of millions of Turks for having led the nation to independence and embarking on an extensive, rapid...
...They replace Emrah Şener, who had been on the board since 2016, and Taha Çakmak and Mustafa Duman, who were appointed in 2021....
...Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the father of modern Turkey, dismissed ideas about the “golden ages” of the Ottoman world, whose sultans had dictated policy based on “feelings and desires”, rather than doing what...
...Rize, a former Pontic settlement in the eastern Black Sea, also had a strong viya tradition, according to hardware store owner Mustafa....
...Osman Kavala is on trial alongside 15 other civil society activists who stand accused of seeking to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government during the Gezi Park protests that swept the country...
...When the AKP first swept into power in October 2002, it had barely a toehold in the secular state built by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the republic....
...Power has shifted from the Kemalists and the military to a new religious business and political elite that are much less interested in preserving the secular values espoused by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the...
...At least with Iraq we have a constitution that makes us equal partners,” laments Hiwa Osman, a Kurdish commentator....
...Sir, According to Osman Can (“Turkey must defend its democracy against the Gulenists” December 16), the Justice and Development (AK) government’s current purge of the judiciary and the police is all in the...
...It would also represent Mr Erdogan’s biggest success in becoming the most dominant figure in the history of Turkey since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the country in 1923....
...Osman Ulagay, the author of a new book on the clash between secularism and conservatism in Turkey, says the party represents something new and unexpected....
...Mustafa Osman Ismail, Sudan’s foreign minister, told the BBC that whilst the Sudanese government has made mistakes “the situation was not tantamount to genocide.”...
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