Turkey and its army: Erdogan and his generals février 2, 2013
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: AKP, Army, Fethullah Gülen, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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The Economist (UK) no. 950
Saturday, February 2, 2013
The once all-powerful Turkish armed forces are cowed, if not quite impotent. Imagine a country with NATO’s second-largest army that counts Iraq, Iran and Syria as neighbours and is encircled by the Aegean, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean–but has nobody to command its navy. (en savoir plus…)
Turkish politics: A historic trial septembre 29, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: AKP, Army, Cetin Dogan, Fethullah Gülen, sledgehammer
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The Economist (UK) no. 950, Saturday, September 29, 2012
Istanbul
The army condemned. Was justice served? The question has been raging ever since a special Istanbul security court on September 21st handed down sentences ranging from six to 20 years against 325 officers accused of seeking to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party in 2003. (en savoir plus…)
Rising power, growing questions juin 25, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Economie, Moyen Orient, Turquie.Tags: AKP, Fethullah Gülen, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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Financial Times (UK) FT Report-Turkey, June 25, 2012, p. 1
By Daniel Dombey
The Erdogan era has brought prosperity but there are calls for the political system to be modernised, writes Daniel Dombey. (en savoir plus…)
Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas juin 7, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: Fethullah Gülen, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) June 7, 2012, p. A1
By Stephanie Saul
TDM Contracting was only a month old when it won its first job, an $8.2 million contract to build the Harmony School of Innovation, a publicly financed charter school that opened last fall in San Antonio. (en savoir plus…)
Audits for 3 Georgia Schools Tied to Turkish Movement juin 6, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Etats-Unis, Turquie.Tags: Education, Fethullah Gülen, Georgia (USA), Gulen movement, school, Texas, Turkey, USA
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The New York Times (USA) June 6, 2012, p. A11
By Stephanie Saul
A group of three publicly financed charter schools in Georgia run by followers of Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Turkish imam, have come under scrutiny after they defaulted on bonds and an audit found that the schools improperly granted hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts to businesses and groups, many of them with ties to the Gulen movement. (en savoir plus…)
Shadow force grows in Turkey avril 18, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Religion, Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Şık, Ergenekon, Fethullah Gülen, freedom of expression, Hanefi Avci, Islam, journalist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turquie
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International Herald Tribune (USA) Wednesday, April 18, 2012, p. 1
By Dan Bilefsky And Sebnem Arsu, Istanbul
When Ahmet Sik was jailed last year on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, he had little doubt that a secretive movement linked to a reclusive imam living in the United States was behind his arrest. (en savoir plus…)
The Americanisation of Turkey mars 19, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Etats-Unis, Turquie, Turquie-UE.Tags: AKP, Dimitar Bechev, Fethullah Gülen, foreign policy, Middle East, Turkey, Turkey-EU, Turquie, USA
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openDemocracy (UK) 18 March 2012
Dimitar Bechev
Turkey’s international profile and domestic politics have long been oriented towards the European Union. Now, both the Arab awakening and the internal momentum of AKP rule are pushing Ankara closer to the United States, says Dimitar Bechev. (en savoir plus…)
Turquie: la cause kurde est raflée mars 14, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: AKP, arrestation, Büsra Ersanli, BDP, Fethullah Gülen, KCK, Kurdes, MIT, PKK, Ragip Zarakolu, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turquie
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Libération (France) 14 mars 2012, p. 8
Marc Semo
Malgré les promesses d’ouverture, le gouvernement multiplie les arrestations et accentue la répression par crainte d’un «printemps kurde». (en savoir plus…)
Recep Erdogan affaibli par la rumeur mars 13, 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turquie.Tags: Abdullah Gül, AKP, Fethullah Gülen, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turquie
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Le Figaro (France), no. 21030, mardi 13 mars 2012, p. 7
Laure Marchand, Istanbul
L’incertitude sur l’état de santé du premier ministre turc, beaucoup moins présent sur la scène intérieure et internationale, réveille les ambitions et fait craindre une implosion de l’AKP. (en savoir plus…)
