One of the most serious problems in understanding and discussing the Kurdish question in Turkey is that it is commonly seen as being confined to the boundaries of the Turkish nation-state. 

Population growth in Istanbul has led to a vertical and horizontal expansion of the city, giving rise to a significant number of new settlements constructed on open spaces, agricultural areas, water basins and forests.

Current neoliberal economic understanding is based on speed, which means legal regulations and implementations that slow down the production-consumption process are seen as obstacles.

The protection of migrants, asylum policies, and living conditions of those who have been obliged to migrate are becoming some of the most complicated issues in the world in conjunction with international migration.

An analysis on the regime must refrain from synthetic distinctions between Erdoğan and the AKP and instead focus on the structural political and ideological atmosphere created in Turkey in the last few months. 

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.