Min ev nivîs do, di sisêyê meha yekem de, roja Pêncşemê nivîsî. Paşê derket holê ku, gava ku min ev rêzik dinivîsîn du parlamenterên Kurd (Ahmet Turk û Ayla Akat) çûnin serlêdana Ocalan. Ev pêşketineke pir muhîm e, lewra hikûmetê nedihişt ku Ocalan ji sal û nîvekê vir ve derveyî malbata xwe (ew jî pir […]
ISTANBUL – On Thursday morning the former chief of general staff Ismail Hakki Karadayi was taken into custody in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul. He is suspected of involvement in the so-called ‘post-modern coup’ of February 1997, in which the army forced the government to step down. Karadayi was chief of general staff between 1994 and […]
Life was good in Gülyazi, I heard. Poor and not easy, but good. Happy, even. I wish I had been here a year and a day ago, so I could have experienced it myself. But a year and a day ago, I, like many other people, had never heard of a place called Gülyazi, a […]
Life was good in Gülyazi, I heard. Poor and not easy, but good. Happy, even. I wish I had been here a year and a day ago, so I could have experienced it with my own eyes and heart. But a year and a day ago, I, like many other people, had never heard of […]
Duyduğum kadarıyla Gülyazı’da hayat iyiydi. Fakirlik vardı, yaşam zordu ama iyiydi. Bunu kendi gözlerimle görmek kalbimle yaşamak için tam bir yıl bir gün önce orada olabilmek isterdim. Ama bir yıl bir gün önce herkes gibi ben de Uludere’ye bağlı Gülyazı diye bir yer olduğundan habersizdim.
Bi qasî ku min bihîstîye li Roboskî jîyan baş bû. Feqîrî hebû, jîyan zor bû lê baş bû. Ji bo ku ez vê yekê bi çavên xwe bibînim û bi dilê xwe bijîm, min dixwest ku sal û rojek berê li wir bûma. Lê berî sal û rojekê min jî wek her kesî nizanîbû ku […]
It was a real battle last week around the Middle East Technical University (METU, or ODTÜ in Turkish) in Ankara. PM Erdogan visited the university to witness the launch of Turkey’s first ever domestically produced satellite. Students wanted to protest, so Erdogan took along some 3,000 policemen who were very quick to attack the students, […]
ISTANBUL – The remains of Saint Nicolas must be brought back to Turkey, according to Navzat Cevik, archaeology professor at the Turkish Akdeniz University, as reported by Turkish press agency Anadolu. The professor claims to know that would also be the wish of the saint himself. Saint Nicolas is currently buried in the Italian province […]
News paper Taraf began publishing in November 2007. I remember it very well. I arrived in Turkey in December 2006, and when Taraf was first published we sometimes used it in Turkish language class. The writing in the paper was grammatically not too complicated, and there was another journalist in language class too, so we […]
ISTANBUL – The Dutch Patriots, which might be stationed in Turkey as soon as early in the new year to protect Turkey against artillery fire from over the Syrian border, will probably be stationed near the city of Adana. Adana is Turkey’s fifth biggest city, some hundred kilometres from the Syrian border. Foreign military presence […]