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Orhan Pamuk: Erdogan’s party is increasingly getting authoritarian

September 2, 2017 By administrator

Nobel laureate, writer Orhan Pamuk said Erdogan’s party is increasingly getting authoritarian after the failed military coup last year.

Speaking to CNN , Pamuk said the opposition should work stronger, and 49% of Turkey’s population are saying “no” to Erdogan.

The famous writer said liberal values are embedded, and Turkey’s problem is not lack of liberals.

“There is an intense fight, polarization in Turkey,” he emphasized.

Asked whether he worries about himself, Pamuk said: “I worry about everyone, but it is not a personal thing. There is less area for free speech, but I am optimistic. Erdogan’s party votes are going down, and opposition may fight back.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Erdogan, orhan pamuk, Party

Armenian Election update: Way Out block: Republican Party loses its political monopoly

April 2, 2017 By administrator

The Republican Party has lost its political monopoly. This was reported by a member of Way Out party David Khazhakyan, commenting on the results of exit polls in the parliamentary elections.

According to him, the Republicans will not collect the necessary 50 + 1% to form the majority. “Taking into account the future picture of the parliament,  the Republican Party will be deprived of its political monopoly,” said Khazhakyan. In addition, commenting on the statements of the Republican party, that the opposition receives more leverages of influence on the decision-making process in the parliamentary government,  Khazhakyan noted that “RPA’s parliamentary system” is no different from what it used to be before.

According to another member of Way Out Block Mane Tandilyan, the bribery during the election was massive. “It raises doubts,” she said. At the same time, Tandilyan regretfully accepts that some people are prone to bribes and are ready to sell their votes. “We need to understand the reason and how can we change this situation,” she said.

Tandilyan agreed that the Republican party is unlikely to get 50 percent. “Two important portions of society did not come to elections. The supporters of the opposition and disillusioned citizens, including young people, “she said. She believes that, if this category of voters had come to cast their votes, there would have been a completely different picture.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Party, republican, Way Out block

German court bans party hampering Armenian Genocide recognition

February 13, 2017 By administrator

bans-party-hampering-genocideA German court has banned the activities of a political party conducting a campaign against the Armenian Genocide recognition, DHA reports.

The party, Union of German Democrats, was founded by two Turkish businessmen and two Turkish lawyers from the city Cologne.

According to Aydinlik, a similarity with the right-wing populist party’s logo AfD (Alternative for Germany) was cited as a reason for moving on to close down the political force.

The German Bundestag adopted the historic resolution to recognize the 1915 genocide against the Christian minorities of Ottoman Turkey on June 2, 2016.

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: armenian genocide, ban, Germany, hampering, Party

Armenia: Three opposition parties join forces for April 2017 elections

December 5, 2016 By administrator

three-partyThree opposition parties have agreed to join forces and challenge the government in the legislative elections scheduled for April.
One of them, Hanrapetutyun (Republic), was the first to announce this cooperation on Thursday evening. “The three parties will make a joint declaration on 12 December,” he said.
The other two parties are the Civil Contract of Nikol Pashinian and Bright Armenia of Edmon Marukian. The two relatively young men.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenia, BDP Co-Chairman Gülten Kışanak "It is not a democratization package; it is an election package, Election, Party, three

President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party wins parliamentary election

September 18, 2016 By administrator

putin-party-wineRussia’s lower house of parliament will will be dominated by Kremlin loyalists after United Russia won 51 percent of the vote, partial results showed. Voter turnout plummeted by 20 percent since the 2011 election.

Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin comfortably won a parliamentary election, early results showed on Monday.

According to a preliminary central election commission tally after a quarter of the votes had been counted, the ruling United Russia party won 51 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election – up two percent on 2011’s parliamentary election.

“We can say with certainty that the party has achieved a very good result; it’s won,” Putin said at the United Russia headquarters, minutes after polling stations closed on Sunday evening.

According to the incomplete official vote count, the right-wing populist LDPR party was in second place with 17.2 percent, while the Communists came in third on 14.9 percent.

The Kremlin-friendly, pro-business Just Russia party garnered 6.4 percent, leaving them in fourth position.

Economic turmoil

Putin said United Russian’s win showed that voters still trusted the leadership, despite an economic slowdown made worse by Western sanctions over Ukraine. Russia’s spluttering economy is forecast to shrink by at least 0.3 percent this year.

“We know that life is hard for people, there are lots of problems, lots of unresolved problems. Nevertheless, we have this result,” Putin said.

United Russia, which was founded by Putin, will now be able to extend its dominance in Russia’s 450-seat lower house of parliament, or Duma.

The victory is also of personal interest to Putin, whose aides are likely to use the result as a springboard for his campaign for re-election in 2018. The President is yet to confirm, however, whether he will seek another term in office.

Low turnout

Despite the success of United Russia on Sunday, the election’s low turnout suggested a softening of enthusiasm for the ruling elite.

According to election officials, two hours before polling stations closed on Sunday, turnout was at 39.4 percent, marking a huge drop from the 60 percent turnout seen at the last parliamentary election.

In the Siberian region of Altai, Russian officials were investigating reports of vote rigging. If the allegations are confirmed, the results from that region could be discounted.

The last parliamentary election in 2011 was also marked with widespread allegations of vote fraud, prompting anti-government demonstrations.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was monitoring the elections throughout the country on Sunday – except in Crimea, which they consider an illegally seized part of Ukraine.

ksb/jm (Reuters, AP, AFP)

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Election, Party, Putin, wine

Islamic State “ISIS” with new name New ‘Ottoman Party’ founded in Turkey

September 2, 2016 By administrator

 

ottoman party isis“This is the result when Turkey was not fully defeated”

A new political party called the “Ottoman Party” has been founded in Turkey with the slogan “Turkey is the Leader,” the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The party features Arabic words on its emblem and aims to “participate in the next elections by forming organizations in a short period of time.”

“Nothing will be the same. We will place everything in an institutional structure,” the head of the party, İbrahim Ünye, said, adding that they would “change politics in Turkey.”

“In the near future, we will have a camp, complete our training and announce our projects. We will reach the furthest point of our country. We will knock on every door and won’t leave a hand that wasn’t shaken and a heart that wasn’t entered,” he also said.

Noting that members of the Ottoman Party are “from the heart of Muslim Turkish society,” Ünye said they were creating projects for “the Muslims in Turkey and the world.”

“We will cultivate all of the soil that our ancestors graced under the name of Turkish-Islamic unity. No one will be able to fool around on Muslim soil,” he added. 

A total of 30 people can gather and found a party in Turkey, according to the law on political parties.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: ne, ottoman, Party

Top Armenian Opposition Party Member Released On Bail

August 19, 2016 By administrator

david sansaarianBy RFE/RL’s Armenian Service

August 19, 2016

YEREVAN — A Yerevan appeals court has granted bail to another leading member of the Heritage opposition party who was charged in connection with his participation at a recent rally.

The court on August 19 ordered David Sanasarian, who serves as a member of Yerevan’s municipal assembly as part of an opposition faction, to pay 1.5 million drams (about $3,150) before being freed pending his trial.

On August 17, the court released the deputy chairman of the Heritage party, Armen Martirosian, on bail.

Sansarian and Martirosian were arrested on July 29 along with another top Heritage party member and an opposition activist on charges of organizing mass disturbances during public protests on that day and remanded to pretrial detention earlier this month.

On August 16, the Heritage party announced it was pulling out of local elections scheduled for September-October because of the arrests of its leading members.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armenian, Bail, member, opposition, Party, released

DW: Turkey’s ruling AKP party has history of links to Islamist groups

August 17, 2016 By administrator

Erdogan-Islamic-TiaThe German Interior Ministry has said that, based on information from Germany’s intelligence service, BND, it believes Turkey has “developed into a central platform of activity for Islamist groups in the Middle East.”

As an example of the “ideological affinity” between the Turkish government and Islamist groups, the ministry cited Turkey’s ties to the Palestinian group Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as well as armed Islamist opposition groups in Syria.

With regard to Hamas, the German government takes its cue from the European Union, which has classed the group as a terrorist organization since 2003. Whereas the West was shocked when Hamas won the 2006 parliamentary elections in the Palestinian territories, Turkey’s AKP government received a Hamas delegation in Ankara, validating them as representatives of the Palestinian people. Ankara countered Western criticism by saying that “the international community should openly convey its expectations to Hamas.”

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal appeared to be pleased with the support from Turkey. At the time, the Islamization of Turkey’s foreign policy was just beginning to become an issue. But the reception of the Hamas delegation gave a taste of things to come. According to Turkish diplomatic sources, Erdogan again met with Mashaal this past June.

The support for Hamas reached a high point in 2010 when a Turkish organization loaded a ship with aid supplies for Palestinians and attempted to breach an Israeli sea blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israeli commandos raided the ship, killing 10 Turkish activists. A diplomatic row between Turkey and Israel ensued, and the two countries only normalized relations a few weeks ago.

Sympathies were clear

Erdogan’s goodwill toward Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is also not new. When brotherhood member Mohammed Morsi became Egypt’s first democratically elected president, he had Erdogan’s support. And when the Egyptian military toppled Morsi in 2013 in the wake of mass protests and banned the Muslim Brotherhood, Erdogan protested and spoke of a coup, accusing Israel of being involved. According to the German Interior Ministry report, Turkey continues to show solidarity by, among other things, sheltering numerous leading members of the brotherhood. Egyptian exiles are also permitted to oppose the new Egyptian government on a Turkish propaganda channel broadcast by satellite.

Less clear is the relationship between Turkey and the so-called “Islamic State” and other radical Islamic jihadist groups. Officially, the Turkish government has labeled IS a terrorist organization. At the same time, reports have repeatedly surfaced during the civil war in Syria that Ankara has bought oil from IS, supplied it with weapons and money, and allowed wounded jihadists to be treated in Turkish hospitals. On the other hand, IS has also claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Turkey.

It is clear that, for the Turkish government, any growth in power of the Kurds in Syria or Iraq along the Turkish border is suspect, because it fears the separatist tendencies of the Kurdish minority in Turkey. Since the West is supporting the Kurds in the fight against IS, and Syrian President Bashar al Assad is also an opponent of Erdogan, it stands to reason that Erdogan has, at least selectively, benefited from “Islamic State.”

Acid test: NATO

None of this is really new. But up until now, it was also not part of the public discourse. Foreign policy specialist for Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) Roderich Kiesewetter confirmed this recently in an interview with public broadcaster WDR: “Turkey has been supporting Hamas for 10 years now. We have discussed this matter privately with Turkey very intensively. We have also very clearly voiced our concerns that Turkey is helping to finance IS.” Kenan Engin, a Turkish-Kurdish political scientist from the University of Heidelberg told Nordwest Radio that Turkey is not just passively tolerating IS, but rather, actively supporting the organization.

So, what are the consequences? Kiesewetter sees no cause to end the EU’s refugee deal with Ankara, nor to end the dialogue with Turkey. Berlin is used to negotiating with “much more difficult countries,” such as Saudi Arabia or Iran, he said. However, Turkey does need to understand where the line is. “A visa deal with Turkey is only possible if democratic principles are upheld,” he said. He also called on NATO to address the fact that “a major member country is clearly supporting an enemy that is being fought by NATO states.”

Deputy parliamentary group chairman for the Social Democrats (SPD), Rolf Mützenich, says it’s not so much Turkey’s role that is the problem. “The yardstick will be whether this platform for activity is being used to commit acts of violence,” Mützenich told the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper. CDU politician Kiesewetter has also stressed that isolating Turkey will not help improve the situation. “If Turkey were to turn its back on NATO and Europe, then we would have a giant power between Europe and Asia that would be difficult to control.”

Filed Under: News Tagged With: AKP, Gülen-linked, Islamic, link, Party

WikiLeaks Expose Democratic Party Voicemails Releases Hacked Audio

July 27, 2016 By administrator

wikileaks audioAfter releasing nearly 20,000 emails from the US Democratic National Committee, WikiLeaks has dumped audio recordings from the organization.

The new release includes 29 voice messages pulled from the emails of high-ranking DNC officials, totaling 14 minutes.

One file (#16014) involves a Clinton supporter calling to demand that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders be prevented from winning the primary.

The emails released over the weekend showed that officials within the ostensibly neutral organization had a clear bias toward former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Sanders supporters were outraged, and the embarrassment forced DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign ahead of this week’s convention. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has pointed out, however, that her replacement has been shown to be equally guilty of anti-Sanders bias.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had promised the release of more documents.

The latest release comes on the same night that US President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at the convention.

Sputnik is in the process of delving into this new release, and will update our readers as revelations emerge.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: audio, democratic, leak, Party, WikiLeaks

Turkey’s opposition party holds Genocide commemorative event

April 22, 2016 By administrator

210838An event was held in Akdeniz municipality in Greater Mersin, Turkey to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Organized by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and titled “101 years before and after rigid state philosophy and the Armenian revolutionist Paramaz,” the event featured author Kadir Akin and journalist Aris Nalci.

Also attending the event were HDP members, representatives of local governing bodies and various NGOs, Ermenihaber.am says.

Related links:

Ermenihaber.am. Թուրքիայում Հայոց ցեղասպանության հիշատակին նվիրված միջոցառում է անցկացվել

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, commemorative, Genocide, Party, pro-kirdish

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