A toy in the hands of business and politics: How has football been cornered?

Why is football in Turkey in this situation? What is being done wrong? Why are we unable to achieve success in international organisations? We keep asking ourselves these questions. But it seems that football, a sport with a high level of social mobilisation, has become an instrument in the hands of politics and capital. And…

ByVecihi Turgul20 Eylül 2024

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Spanish writer Javier Sierra: Turkey is the heart of human history and this is of great interest to me

The meeting of love of history, journalism, and a strong pen… Javier Sierra, the Spanish author who takes us to the Renaissance period with his book ‘The Secret Dinner’, takes readers on a historical adventure with his skill in combining fiction and reality. Sierra, who recently came to Istanbul as a guest of the Cervantes…

ByVecihi Turgul11 Haziran 2024

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Saturday Mothers at Galatasaray Square again in the 1000th week

Saturday Mothers have been questioning the fate of their relatives who disappeared in detention every Saturday for 29 years by staging a sit-in protest at Galatasaray Square… We talked to Maside Ocak, Hasan Ocak’s sister, about how this struggle for rights and justice started, what has changed and how it has come to this day.

ByIşık Balkan28 Mayıs 2024

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Remains of a political wreck

Following the 31 March elections, the CHP became the first party for the first time since the 1977 elections, marking a historic victory for itself. As a result of the local elections, which will lead to serious ruptures in Turkish politics, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has dominated politics for more than 20 years, is cornered.…

ByGürer Mut13 Nisan 2024

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Will Murat Kurum win the election?

There is less than a week left until the elections. In the fierce election marathon between Ekrem İmamoğlu and Murat Kurum, the candidates’ discourses and gaffes came to the agenda more than their promises. The performance of Murat Kurum, the former Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, after his nomination, has led to the…

ByGürer Mut28 Mart 2024

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Imamoğlu’s 2024 campaign: ‘I am one and you are all’

Turkey is going to local elections this Sunday. Competition is going on in all provinces, districts, and neighborhoods, but there is only one constituency that will determine what kind of a country Turkey will wake up to on 1 April: Istanbul. After 14 May, the opposition bloc, which disintegrated, will be reshaped according to the…

ByVecihi Turgul28 Mart 2024

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There are women against the darkness!

“Women face the danger of being subjected to violence wherever they come into contact in their daily lives. We see and experience this by living. Today, while we cannot tolerate the loss of a single woman’s life, we are talking about 8 recorded murders of women in a week. Women are killed by the people…

ByGökçesu Özgül09 Mart 2024

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After the church attack: ISIS sleeper cell or dead cell?

Istanbul faced a trauma it had not been exposed to for a long time with the sound of gunfire on Sunday last week: ISIS.

ByHediye Yaman04 Şubat 2024

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We miss you Ahparig: If the truth could speak for 17 years…

“The shooter of Hrant Dink’s murder was 17 years old when he shot Hrant Dink 17 years ago. Today he walks among us freely.”

ByIşık Balkan25 Ocak 2024

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Bloody as hell, stunned from the first scene: Blu Eye Samurai

17th century Japan, where samurai were respected and clans ruled… This period, from which some of the most epic films in the history of world cinema take their roots, has been a medicine for Netflix’s declining reputation in recent years. This is the adventure of a blue-eyed woman seeking revenge at a time when the…

ByVecihi Turgul12 Ocak 2024

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Fraud, usury, detention… What happened in Fatih Terim Fund?

After the Dilan Polat case, Turkey is now shaking with the “Terim Fund”. The case of fraud “with the promise of a high-profit fund”, whose plaintiffs include athletes and business people, is growing day by day. What happened behind the scenes of the million-dollar fraud case signed by Bank Branch Manager Seçil Erzan? We have…

ByGürer Mut02 Aralık 2023

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What is happening in the Can Atalay Case, which led to the start of a judicial crisis?

The 3rd Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation broke new ground and stated that the Constitutional Court violated the Constitution and exceeded its authority. It also filed a criminal complaint against the members of the Constitutional Court who issued a decision of violation against Atalay. Can Atalay’s trial process…

ByEditör30 Kasım 2023

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