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The necessity to assess Turkey’s refugee policies has become very clear when we consider the current situation. The decision of Turkey to open its gates to the people fleeing Syria after the start of the conflicts was a necessary and rightful one. However, a series of mistakes have been made since the first refugees set foot in Turkey

Turkeys Foreign policy decoded Die Türkei-Vertretung der Heinrich Böll Stiftung widmet sich in der Veranstaltungsreihe „Turkey’s Foreign Policy Decoded“ der Außenpolitik der Türkei und...

24-25 May 2014 Place: Cezayir Meeting Hall Hayriye Caddesi 12, Galatasaray, Beyoğlu-İstanbul One year has passed since the protests that spread all over Turkey. This seems to be the right time to...

Fethullah Gülen,Tayyip Erdogan. Foto: Diyar se, Chilenische Regierung. Creative Commons Lizenzvertrag. Dieses Bild steht unter einer Creative Commons Lizenz. 14. Februar 2014 Ulrike Dufner Wir haben...

Heinrich Böll Stiftung brings Green Economy and Commons issue up for discussion. We will start by trying to answer the question of “what the commons are” and search for the solutions to the problem of sharing and governing our commons in all spheres; from cultural and environmental values to food, from water to air and knowledge. We will discuss the role of commons in the Green Economy as well.

Ünal Akkemik Belgrade Forest, to the north of Istanbul’s European coast, covers approximately 5300 hectares with mostly broadleaf trees. Recent archaeological excavations in Yenikapı confirm that...

The Heinrich Böll Stiftung Turkey Representation together with the Development Center Association and Traces of Seed Association is invits you to the conference between 16-17 November 2012, based on the book “Alternative and New Approaches to Rural Development” published by the Development Center Association in Turkish and Kurdish in 2011. During the two-day conference, the main topics will be “Food Sovereignty”, “Peasantry” and “Rural Development and Gender”. The first day will consist of panels addressing these topics followed by workshops on the second day of the conference.

 Heinrich Böll Stiftung, opens transportation policies of the cities up for discussion in the Green Economy Conference which will be the third of the series. Public transport but what kind? Which one is more environment friendly; metrobus, metro or buses? Are the bicycle roads part of the green fantasies for big cities or are they -sine qua non- absolutely necessary? Antalya Metropolitan Municipality, Yalova Municipality and the slow cities in Turkey will present their projects. These presentations will be followed by discussions together with the experts. We look forward to seeing you at the 3rd Green Economy Conference in Istanbul.

For those who think AKP is the biggest enemy to women as a religious and reactionary party, which has not changed in the last 10 years, this development is amenable to being perceived as the government unmasking their “true face”. The political result of such an analysis is a steady enmity against the AKP. It is true that there are many factors to nourish this enmity. However, we are faced with a party in power that managed to raise its share of the votes with every election in a way unprecedented in the history of the Republic and, probably, it deserves more than the adjective “representative of the most reactionary, the most bigoted sections of society”.