Tuesday, November 28, 2006 A Kemalist youth organization appealed to YÖK demanding that a professor who criticized Atatürk be banned from the academic profession ANKARA – Turkish Daily NewsSecretary General of the Turkey Association of Youth (TGB) Osman Yılmaz has filed an appeal to the Higher Education Board (YÖK) for the dismissal of Professor Atilla …
I know that to most of you this will sound weird, but for me this is much bigger news then Pope`s visit to Turkey and implications that will bring… This is simply bigger then it looks like. Living in Turkey for some 9 months I have learned already that here you can do basicly whatever …
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Some 20,000 Muslims held an anti-pope rally in Istanbul on Sunday in a peaceful protest against Pope Benedict’s visit to Turkey this week. Benedict, due to begin his first official visit to a Muslim country next Tuesday, angered many Muslims in September with a speech they took as an insult to Islam. …