Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday with an incursion. The threat came days after militants for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attacked Turkish troops within Turkey’s borders, kiling 17.Most PKK militants stage attacks in Turkey after which they quickly cross the border with Iraq where they hide. Northern Iraq is [...]

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Osama Bin Laden told Egyptian reporters for Arabic daily Cairo in 1994 that he had spent some time in Istanbul. He lived and worked in Istanbul, he said, because of “some troubles” with the Kingdom Saudi Arabia which he declined to specify.The report was ignored by most media outlets until recently; Bin Laden’s time in [...]

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German police broke up a protest on Saturday in Cologne, Germany at the moment it was about to start. The protest was organized by far-right parties and individuals from across Europe.
The goal of it was to make their opposition to the approval of the region’s municipality to Moslems to build a mosque, clear.

Thousands of left-wing [...]

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Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on September 5, 2008 @ 3:17 pm CEST

PoliGazette takes a look at Turkey’s real problem. It is not what you may think it is.
IZMIR, TURKEY -
For a couple of years, the major issue of debate in Turkey has been the separation of church and state; the country’s politicians focused almost [...]

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Filed under: Lead Story, Turkey — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on August 20, 2008 @ 9:48 pm CEST
PoliGazette’s Michael van der Galiën reports from Istanbul, Turkey.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - When I visited the former capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, last year, I noticed more women wear a headscarf here than in Turkey’s second city, [...]

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PoliGazette’s Michael van der Galiën reports from Istanbul, Turkey.ISTANBUL, TURKEY - When I visited the former capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, last year, I noticed more women wear a headscarf here than in Turkey’s second city, Izmir.
Additionally, I was greatly impressed by the size of Istanbul. For Dutch standards, Izmir is gigantic with its [...]

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Buying Policies

Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief
 
PoliGazette takes a closer look into the financial records of US Senator Menendez (D NJ). His vote can and has been bought.
 
One of the main things Americans frequently complain about is the influence of special interest groups over politicians and, thus, over how the United States is ran. Too many [...]

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http://poligazette.com/2008/07/13/turkeys-east-still-one-big-mess/
Submitted by Michael van der Galiën
Eastern Turkey is the country’s poorest region. A lot of Kurds live in that area, and a lot of poor Turkish people as well. These individuals have had little to no education, and still live in accordance with the beliefs, prejudices and ways of their ancestors.
Although Turkey’s culture is great [...]

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