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Jim Meyer's Borderlands: Category Archive for Turkey

Coups, Constitutions, and the 27th of May

Posted by Jim Meyer at 5/27/2012 11:00 AM | Add Comment

Remember Ergenekon?

Posted by Jim Meyer at 5/26/2012 6:59 AM | Add Comment

Menderes Thesis: Still around today

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/16/2012 9:08 AM | Add Comment

Borderlands Week in Review

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/22/2012 10:28 AM | Add Comment

Back from Sultan City N & P

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/11/2012 1:55 AM | Add Comment

Thousands pouring into Turkey from Syria

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/13/2011 11:07 PM | Add Comment

Turkish election results...

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/12/2011 11:46 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Pass the Kleenex...

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/11/2011 5:54 AM | Add Comment

The other side of Turkey's economic boom

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/9/2011 4:47 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Long NYT piece on Gulen schools in America

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/8/2011 5:17 AM | Add Comment

Turkey's 1980 coup leaders starting to feel some heat

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/7/2011 5:14 AM | Add Comment

On the upcoming Turkish elections...

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/5/2011 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Erdogan and Libya

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/20/2011 4:30 PM | Add Comment

Tatlises shot in head by unknown assailant [updated Tues, 8:13 pm]

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/14/2011 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Neither "the country of no" nor "the republic of fear"

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/11/2011 7:39 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Ergenekon: still jailing after all these years...

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/6/2011 7:56 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Erdogan's Newsweek Editorial and the State of Turkish Diplomacy

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/20/2011 8:43 AM | Add Comment

Fight for your right to porno

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/11/2011 8:22 AM | Add Comment

Turkey in Iraq

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/6/2011 8:30 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Turkish FM Davutoglu and the top "global thinkers" of 2010

Posted by Jim Meyer at 12/28/2010 11:14 AM | Add Comment

News and Propaganda: dumps and chumps edition

Posted by Jim Meyer at 12/6/2010 5:29 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Back in the Bozone

Posted by Jim Meyer at 12/3/2010 7:48 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

The end of the headscarf ban and the public demonstration of Islamic piety in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 10/12/2010 11:01 PM | Add Comment

Iverson in Beşiktaş?

Posted by Jim Meyer at 10/12/2010 6:02 AM | Add Comment

Turkish as a second language for Kurds

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/29/2010 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Working at cross purposes on Lake Van

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/21/2010 11:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

How big an AKP victory was the referendum?

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/21/2010 6:10 AM | Add Comment

Referendum chatter

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/17/2010 8:02 PM | Add Comment

My take on the Turkish referendum

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/13/2010 8:32 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

"Yes" side winning in Turkish constitutional referendum

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/12/2010 10:33 AM | Add Comment

Infrastructure, please

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/7/2010 6:05 AM | Add Comment

Henri Barkey's article in FP

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/5/2010 6:00 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Entertainers only...

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/4/2010 7:37 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

News & Propaganda: August 31

Posted by Jim Meyer at 8/31/2010 12:17 PM | Add Comment

Secularism/Secularism

Posted by Jim Meyer at 8/29/2010 9:14 PM | Add Comment

The battle over 'tolerance'

Posted by Jim Meyer at 7/27/2010 5:28 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Turkey's recent raid/"neo-Ottoman" silliness

Posted by Jim Meyer at 7/11/2010 12:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Turkey-Israel row and the weakening influence of the Turkish military

Posted by Jim Meyer at 7/7/2010 3:53 AM | Add Comment

They must think we're stupid

Posted by Jim Meyer at 7/5/2010 9:55 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

New English-language propaganda re Ergenekon

Posted by Jim Meyer at 7/2/2010 10:08 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Ilhan Selcuk (1925-2010) and Cumhuriyet

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/21/2010 2:17 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The "Kurdish initiative"--designed to fail?

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/20/2010 12:37 AM | Add Comment

US helping to patrol disputed 'border' between Northern Iraq and rest of Iraq

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/26/2010 5:17 PM | Add Comment

More Coup Talk, Media Talk in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/25/2010 4:25 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Release of Agca a mockery of justice, trial

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/20/2010 2:53 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

On the Kurdish and Armenian Initiatives

Posted by Jim Meyer at 12/13/2009 8:21 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

The Doğan Case: Role-Reversal in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 9/13/2009 4:34 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Moving to Montana

Posted by Jim Meyer at 8/2/2009 10:20 AM | Add Comment

Rothbury, Moscow Threesome, Midnight Legislation in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 7/11/2009 3:32 PM | Add Comment

Çiçek Released, Questions Linger in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 7/2/2009 10:02 AM | Add Comment

Who's smearing whom? AK party, military can't decide

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/27/2009 9:48 AM | Add Comment

Ergenekon, the Deep State, and the Crimes that get lost in the shuffle

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/10/2009 12:57 AM | Add Comment

Genocide and the Borderlands

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/1/2009 10:41 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Caucasian Journey XIV: In Kars

Posted by Jim Meyer at 5/20/2009 10:26 AM | Add Comment

Turkish Roundup: May 9-16

Posted by Jim Meyer at 5/16/2009 2:12 AM | Add Comment

Borderlands Roundup: This Week in the News

Posted by Jim Meyer at 5/10/2009 6:13 AM | Add Comment

Turkish Roundup: This Week in the News

Posted by Jim Meyer at 5/3/2009 1:41 AM | Add Comment

An Obama Hand in Turkish-Armenian Talks?

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/29/2009 7:25 AM | Add Comment

April 24-25: Two Days of Remembrance

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/25/2009 11:24 PM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Turk-Arm III: Opportunities and Risks in Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/24/2009 4:24 AM | Add Comment

Turk-Arm II: A Legacy of Pain and the Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/23/2009 7:10 AM | Add Comment

My View of the Recent Crackdown on the DTP

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/21/2009 6:03 AM | Add Comment

Thousands March in Ankara to Protest Direction of Ergenekon Inquiry

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/19/2009 12:05 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Turk-Arm I: Quiet Steps forward in Turkish-Armenian Relations

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/18/2009 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Ergenekon, and on and on

Posted by Jim Meyer at 4/14/2009 11:13 PM | Add Comment

A Few Comments on the Turkish Election Results

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/31/2009 10:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Decision 2009: The Race for Muhtar

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/25/2009 6:55 AM | Add Comment

Turkey's Upcoming Elections

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/19/2009 11:23 PM | Add Comment

America, Turkey, and the "Moderate Islamic Republic"

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/9/2009 9:08 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Happy Women's Day/News from Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/8/2009 12:45 AM | Add Comment

Hillary visits Turkey, Obama coming next month

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/7/2009 11:27 AM | Add Comment

Cumhuriyet Ankara Bureau Chief Re-Arrested in Ergenekon Case

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/7/2009 2:36 AM | Add Comment

Cumhuriyet asks: If we go silent, who will speak?

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/5/2009 12:17 AM | Add Comment

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan: I'm no Maganda

Posted by Jim Meyer at 3/3/2009 2:47 PM | Add Comment

February 26, 2008/News From Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 2/25/2009 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Turkish Politics and the News III: A Newspaper Called Taraf and its Many Foreign Fans

Posted by Jim Meyer at 2/25/2009 2:55 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Turkish Politics and the News II: the Ergenekon investigation

Posted by Jim Meyer at 2/24/2009 1:51 AM | Add Comment

Turkish Politics and the News: A Putinesque Muzzling of the Media

Posted by Jim Meyer at 2/23/2009 11:40 AM | Add Comment

Armenian Schools to Turkish Education Ministry: Don't make us show this movie

Posted by Jim Meyer at 2/18/2009 3:33 AM | Add Comment

Kurdish protests mark 10th anniversary of Ӧcalan’s arrest

Posted by Jim Meyer at 2/15/2009 11:13 AM | Add Comment

January 20, 2009/Public Transport in Istanbul

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/20/2009 9:08 PM | Add Comment

Turkey and the Armenian Genocide Issue

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/16/2009 10:26 AM | Add Comment

Turkish Money Talk

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/11/2009 12:05 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Obama, Russia, and the Middle East

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/10/2009 7:45 AM | Add Comment

Ergenekon III (updated, January 13)

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/10/2009 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Ergenekon II

Posted by Jim Meyer at 1/8/2009 2:11 PM | Add Comment

The News in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 11/9/2008 1:55 PM | Add Comment

Film Review: Mustafa

Posted by Jim Meyer at 11/9/2008 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Obama in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 11/5/2008 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Ergenekon: Turkey's Troubling Trial of the Century

Posted by Jim Meyer at 10/20/2008 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Turkey: Proxy Battles

Posted by Jim Meyer at 10/20/2008 11:49 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Sıhhatler Olsun!

Posted by Jim Meyer at 10/8/2008 11:14 PM | Add Comment

'Secularism' and Turkish Democracy

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/26/2008 1:37 PM | Add Comment

Recent Events in Turkey

Posted by Jim Meyer at 6/6/2008 4:08 PM | Add Comment

What is 'Moderate Islam' supposed to mean?

Posted by Jim Meyer at 5/4/2008 4:42 PM | Add Comment
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