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İçimizdeki beyinsizlerle sınırlı kalmayan afet: Fon krizi
Fon krizi, artçı sarsıntılarıyla birlikte bütün toplumu sarsan bir afet etkisi yaratmaya devam ediyor. Bütün afetler gibi, toplumun içinden yalnızca beyinsizleri, yani bu işte doğrudan dahli, günahı ve hatası olanları vurmuyor; toplumun tamamını vuruyor. “İçimizdeki beyinsizler yüzünden bizi helak etme, Rabbimiz!” diye bir duamız olsa da maalesef tarihin seyri, bir toplumda göz yumulan, zamanında ses çıkarılmayan ve fütursuzca faaliyetlerini sürdürmeye devam eden mücrimler yüzünden yaşanan bu tür
Doğru sorular sorulursa, Nutuk en değerli tarih belgesi
Bugün aslında nispeten daha rahat ulaşılabilen ve tarihyazımı veya akademinin gündemlerinde dolaşıma girebilen belgeler Cumhuriyet tarihini yeni baştan ve soğukkanlı bir biçimde yazmayı zaruri kılmaktadır. Nutuk metninin bu tarihi okuyacak ve yazacak tarihçiler için her zaman paha biçilmez değerde bir metin olduğunda hiç kuşku yok. Ancak Nutuk metninin Cumhuriyet tarihi için tek ve nihai sözü söylemiş metin olarak okunması tarihi anlamayı değil, tarihi bir teolojik destan gibi okumayı getirir ve
Diplomasi ve Cumhuriyet
Kazım Karabekir, Rawlinson’dan aldığı bilgileri aktardıktan sonra İngilizlerin hilafet ve saltanatın ayrılması, cumhuriyete geçilmesi ve hükümet merkezinin İstanbul’dan Anadolu’ya taşınması konularındaki sorularını da Mustafa Kemal’e bildiriyor. Bu sorulara verdiği cevap ise sonradan yaşanacaklarla aradaki mesafeyi bütün açıklığıyla ortaya koyuyor: Karabekir’e göre hilafetle saltanat birbirinden ayrılamazdı; ikisi de korunmalıydı. Karabekir, Rawlinson’a verdiği cevabı ve aralarında gerçekleşen diyaloğu
The Republic at 103: Making History or Writing History?
As of the 103rd anniversary of the founding of the Republic, our knowledge regarding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of a new administration in its place remains very limited. The expectation that the mists surrounding our recent history would dissipate on the occasion of its centenary was not fully met. Paradoxically, this history—a period not so distant at just 100 years—continues to be the most difficult to understand and learn.
"Rauf, did you see… the value of the state, of office and of its support?"
The author argues that Mustafa Kemal was not widely known as a saviour at the start of the National Struggle, and that his recognition came from being Vahdettin's aide-de-camp. He regards the later abolition of the sultanate and the caliphate as a departure from the Assembly's understanding in the early period.
What if there had been no Vahdettin… If we become civilians, everything is over, Rauf!
The author argues that Mustafa Kemal's strength in the National Struggle rested less on his personal charisma than on the authority he received from the Sultan and Caliph Vahdettin. He explains that without this authority it would have been difficult for him to move and be effective in Anatolia.
Welcome to the reality of society! Does the state weaken when society makes peace?
The author argues that it is wrong to regard a party's resolving blood feuds in Batman through mediation as a threat to state authority. In his view a strong state is one that allows society to solve its problems within the law.
The AK Party at 25 (II) The second quarter-century: from a strong state to a just society
The author argues that the AK Party raised the state up in its first quarter-century and must now rebuild society in the second by putting justice, family, education and intellectual independence to the fore. He stresses the equal application of law to everyone and that development should not come before spiritual values.
The AK Party at 25 (I) The first quarter-century: a strengthened state, a developed society
The author explains how in the AK Party's first 25 years the state was strengthened again, bringing Turkey to a position of deciding more independently of outside influences. He says the real test is to build a just and moral society alongside this strong state.
As the new routes of the brain drain are being determined, what should Turkey do?
The author argues that the US restrictions on visas for foreign students may in the long run reduce its global attractiveness, and that this gives Turkey an opportunity to attract international students. To that end he proposes strengthening the vision of universities and abandoning a migration- and security-focused approach to foreign students.
We owe an apology to Kerem Kınık and his daughter
The author argues that Kızılay President Kerem Kınık was unfairly targeted in public after the earthquake. He claims that public pressure played a part in a trial concerning his family.
15 July: the day when it was the nation's word, not the coup plotters', that prevailed
The author regards 15 July not merely as a failed coup attempt but as a day that gains meaning through the nation's historic reaction to the coup. He argues that state-nation solidarity must be maintained in ordinary times too.
On the tenth anniversary of 15 July: remembering not the coup but the birth of the nation
On the tenth anniversary of 15 July the author proposes remembering the event less as a coup attempt than as a turning point in the nation's emergence as a political subject. He stresses that democracy must be continuously protected.
Was parliament established in Turkey for the first time on 23 April?
23 April is celebrated as the anniversary of the opening of the Grand National Assembly. In the official narrative this date is presented as the birthday not only of a new state but of a new political order based on national sovereignty.
Between power, rote and truth in historiography, our rote is too asymmetrical, Nuray Mert
Since the early years of the Republic, with the Law on the Maintenance of Order, the Law on the Unification of Education and the Press Law, the Nutuk, which consists of a party chairman's party congress speech containing his claims and accusations against other politicians, almost…
"Netanyahu loves Erdoğan too", empty words… Trump's last joke of the year
In these last days of 2025 everyone is trying to close the year at a profit. Everyone will count himself as gaining as much as he can snatch from what remains. There is a flurry at Netanyahu's meeting with Trump.
A consolation prize in the channel of Westernization: are Westerners also Turks anyway?
On the occasion of D. Mehmed Doğan, whom we sent off to the abode of eternity last year, we continue to think again about Westernization.
From ideological politics to real politics in Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami
Since 1941, when it was founded by Mawdudi, and 1956, when it also became a political party in addition to a movement of invitation, Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami has formed a serious cultural and ideological hegemonic power in society.
The 1st anniversary of the July Revolution in Bangladesh
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The treasonous blows that open the door from within to the occupiers
It is of course far more important to see 15 July not as the anniversary of a coup attempt but as the anniversary of an epic resistance against coups.
Even if coups are heaped upon coups, revolution cannot be avoided
Nine years have passed since the last coup of our recent history, which led to a revolution. The revolution it led to, that is, 16 July, became a day on which Turkey was able to prove its own existence on the road to being a nation with a state.
Turkish-Kurdish-Arab brotherhood awakening in the Casene Cave, and Erdoğan's address
The ceremony of burning weapons by PKK militants held in Sulaymaniyah on Friday in line with the roadmap of the process took place with an excellent organization whose symbolic meanings were designed and worked out with great care.
Burning weapons: a road to peace with no return
The process, which began with Devlet Bahçeli's call in his speech in the Grand National Assembly on 22 October 2024 and has been followed for months with great curiosity, passed yesterday a historic turning point with the organization's gesture of "burning weapons".
On Islam, morality and politics
Politics is in essence a moral act, a form of existence that begins to be realized from the moment human beings start to change the world.
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