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A more vocal civil society
A ray of light, increasingly bright, is breaking through the clouds that have amassed in the political sky over Turkey in recent weeks. It is shone...
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The 3CHP, 0.5AKP, 1MHP, 0.2BDP…formula
I participated in a meeting of the Abant Platform held on June 25-27 and titled “Tutelage and Democracy.” The meeting was informative, the participati...
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21. Abant Meeting: “Egypt, Stability in the Middle East and Turkey"
The conference in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Monday was attended by renowned Turkish and Egyptian intellectuals. Experts who gathered in the Egyptian capi...
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Turkey's system of military tutelage, which according to many is the source of all the evils and long-standing problems in the country, has been discussed at a three-day meeting of the Abant Platform. ...
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Intellectuals, writers, social scientists and politicians met yesterday under the umbrella of the Abant Platform to discuss Turkey's "Kurdish problem" in the hope of creating a peaceful future....
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One week has passed since a meeting was held by the Abant Platform in Arbil, northern Iraq, yet its effects continue. I was a member of the executive board of the Abant Platform and the spokesman of the Arbil meeting. ...
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With Accession, Europe Would Know Us Bette...
Turkey has been in the European Union accession process since 1960's. At that time the name of the Union was "The Common Market"; later, i...
Abant: Coups are Impeding Democracy ...
Military coups have been the greatest obstacle to Turkey's aspirations for a stronger democracy, the Abant Platform underscored in its closing evaluation of a two...
18th Abant Platform calls for tolerance in cl...
The Abant Platform's meeting in Arbil, "Searching for Peace and a Future Together," held in cooperation with Salahaddin University and the ...
Terror will persist until military tutelage ends ...
Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin addressed participants of the Abant Platform on Friday and said acts of t...
Abant Platform Urges Greater Contribution to Democratization...
The Abant Platform, a prominent discussion forum known for dealing with pressing issues that face Turk...
Democracy tree grows in Abant as Turks and Kurds bond ...
The Abant Platform concluded yesterday after an outcome assessment was read by Kurdish intellectual Altan...