Vol. 48 No. 4 (October 2007)
http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2007/12/17/the-german-turk-miracle-arnold-reismans-turkeys-modernization/#respond
Yakup Bektas
This book, long overdue, brings to light the little-known story of how Turkey welcomed (and thus saved) several hundred prominent, predominantly Jewish, intellectuals, scientists, doctors, legal scholars, architects, librarians, and musicians fleeing the Nazis. They came from Germany and other German-speaking parts of Europe, mainly Austria and parts of [...]

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Truman Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Truman_Doctrine
Carter Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Carter_Doctrine
1980 Turkish coup d’état
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ 1980_Turkish_ coup_d%27% C3%A9tat

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Can Dündar’ın dün vizyona giren ‘Mustafa’ filmiyle ilgili tartışmalar devam ediyor. Film önce sponsorluk tartışmalarıyla gündeme geldi, şimdi de senaryosuyla tartışılıyor.

Filmi eleştirenler, Atatürk’ün kişisel yönlerinin çarpıtılarak verildiğini, sevenler ise cesurca ve farklı bir Atatürk yorumu olduğunu, söylüyorlar.

Bu noktada; Atatürk’ün ölümünden 15 gün sonra dönemin İngiltere Büyükelçisi Percy Loraine’in Londra’ya özel [...]

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by Garrett Ward Sheldon
March 29, 2004

Two Giants from two different eras and countries
Reviewer: Dr J.E.Botton from Lynchburg, VA United States.
I have been looking forward to the publication of this interesting book by Prof.Garrett W.Sheldon. This concise work by a jeffersonian scholar (87 pages and an appendix outlining the American and Turkish Constitutions) had been inspired, [...]

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Ariana Ferentinou
“It was a winter night in 1881. The storm was howling over Thessalonica. Everyone was trying to get warm in his ‘yatak’ and Kyra-Thodora, a well built Turkish-Rum midwife whom her fellow inhabitants in the city knew for her unique abilities (she had the reputation of a zero death rate in births that she [...]

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Stories compiled By Prof. Mahmut Esat Ozan
It was on November 24, 1935 that Mustafa Kemal, the first president of the young Turkish Republic, was given the name of ATATÜRK by the Grand National Assembly. He had led his people through war into self-government and finally into an entirely new way of life. He had been [...]

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Turkey: AK Party Fined For ‘Anti-Secular Activities’
 
October 24, 2008

Turkeyʼs high court held Oct. 24 that leaders of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have carried out anti-secular activities and used religion as a political tool, Al Jazeera reported. The court fined the party for [...]

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 Sabrina Tavernise’s article with the title In Turkey, Bitter Feud Has Roots in History in the June 22, 2008 issue of New York Times immediately fueled the existing debate in Turkey over the country’s political future. From the whole article alone the quote from Dengir Mir Firat, the Vice-President of the ruling AKP that ‘the [...]

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Tuesday, 30 September 2008
TÜM dünyayı sözde soykırım yalanına inandırmak için her yolu deneyen Ermenilerin vahşetlere tarihin sayfalarında belgeleriyle yerini alıyor. Arabistan cephesinde İngilizlere esir düşen 150 bin Türk askerinden 15 bini, Mısır’da kurulan esir kamplarında, Ermeni doktorlarca ’fenni temizlik’ bahanesiyle su tanklarında zorla banyo yaptırılarak kör edildi. İnsanlık dışı olayı İngiliz arşivinde de belgeleyen tarihçi [...]

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Sep 25th 2008 | ANKARA AND YEREVAN
From The Economist print edition
Rising hopes of better relations between two historic enemies
 
KEMAL ATATURK , father of modern Turkey, rescued hundreds of Armenian women and children from mass slaughter by Ottoman forces during and after the first world war. This untold story, which is sure to surprise many of [...]

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