Well, what can we expect from the G20 Summit and COP21 Conference, where real intentions are hidden in closed boxes and policy proposals and expectations are to be designed on the basis of closed boxes?  

Key issues here are whether the negotiations begun in 2011 will indeed result in a new agreement, and the nature of the agreement that will be reached at the end of the talks.

ÖMER MADRA ON THE REASONS, RESULTS, EFFECTS AND SOLUTIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE "This scales cannot carry such weight". Ziya Paşa's famous motto summarizes the climate crisis. "This scale", is this planet. "Such weight" is the burden put on this planet. 

A bloody game of elections  Four of the leading trade unions and professional organisations in Turkey organized a mass meeting on October 10, 2015, in order to call for negotiations to stop the war with Kurds, which had been resumed after the resolution process came to an end. 

The base and backbone of this movement is its political wing. Its newest offspring is the Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP – Halkların Demokratik Partisi) that received more than six million (13.12%) votes (80 seats) in the last election. With new elections looming in November and new clashes flaring up between the Turkish government and the PKK, the HDP’s future hangs in the balance as well.

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For Europe, the current refugee crisis presents a two-fold challenge: Will we uphold our humanitarian values, that is, do we view the refugees as people in need and with a right to a safe haven? And will the EU, in the face of this challenge, act as one?

The discourse over the right path to development started way before even the notion of official development assistance (ODA) was conceived in the speech of the then U.S. president Harry S. Truman in 1949. Already then his so called four-point plan was aimed at winning “the hearts and minds” of people in the developing world, but this notion mixed clearly with the idea that other than in the centuries before democratic and humanitarian ideals and not imperial ambitions should be at the heart of such development. 

When I was five years old, I learned how to read and write, and also noticed that a lot of women were illiterate while the great majority of men were literate. I thought that women of the same age as my mother should know how to read and write.I ventured to teach them and tired out the aunts who embraced me with love. I do not remember if any one of them learned how to read and write. However, now when I look back, I see that I enjoyed challenges—if there was problem, I wanted to help solve it.

An important center of the Armenian genocide was Diyarbakır. Both the urban Armenian population and the convoys passing through the city were massacred. In their study One Hundred Years of Sorrow - On the Track of Social Memory: 1915 Diyarbakır, (“Yüzyıllık Ah! – Toplumsal Hafızanın İzinde: 1915 Diyarbekir”) published by the İsmail Beşikçi Foundation, Adnan Çelik and Namık Kemal Dinç searched for the specter of genocide haunting the city by drawing on intergenerational transmissions, political facts and the reflections of the genocide in Kurdish literature.