To: Abdullah Gul, President of Turkey Sayın Cumhurbaşkanı, Ataturk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu, Yönetim Kurulu Üyeligi gibi önemli görevlere sahislar atanırken, adaylar konusunda daha dikkatli davranılması ve mümkünse Türk halkını temsilen Büyük Millet Meclisinin de seçim sürecine dahil edilerek, nihai isimlere “toplumsal bir görüş birliği” ile ulaşılmasının daha adil ve demokratik bir yöntem […]
CONTINUE READING →To: Turkish Media, Organizations for Secular Turkey, Political Parties I.) Dünyadaki anayasa kavramını ve tecrübesini hukuksal, politik, sosyolojik ve tarihsel olarak detaylı bir şekilde tartışan üyelerimiz anayasa metinlerinin özünün evrensel değerlerden oluştuğu, bu evrensel değerlerin her ulusun demokrasi, adalet, bağımsızlık mücadelesi ile şekillenerek o ulusun KURUCU İRADESİ tarafından yaşama geçirildiği konusunda görüş birliğine varmıştır. II.) […]
CONTINUE READING →Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased and honored to be here with you. I extend my sincere gratitude to you for coming, and particularly to Dr. Bülent Atalay and the Members of the Board of the Atatürk Society of America for organizing this event… that I will regard as a life-long honor. Today is May […]
CONTINUE READING →Women around the world… Discrimination against women starts at birth for a girl, and continues all her life in many countries around the world. And throughout her life, compared to a man, a woman encounters many problems that are caused by being poorer, having a low social status, lack of education and the attitude of […]
CONTINUE READING →HON. STEVE COHEN OF TENNESSEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, May 17, 2012 “Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate May 19 as a significant day in the history of our friend and ally the Republic of Turkey. In Turkey, May 19 is celebrated as the commemoration of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Founder of […]
CONTINUE READING →Türkiye İktidar Partisinin Açik Olarak Bildirdiği, Mevcut Anayasa Tarafindan Korunan “Türkiyenin Kuruluş İlkelerini” Değiştirme Amacina Kesinlikle Karşi Çikmaktadir 1. Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın başkanlığındaki Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) Türkiye Anayasasını 12 Haziran, 2011 Genel Seçimlerinden hemen sonra değiştirmek istediğini açıkça ifade etmiştir. Erdoğan seçmenlere “Türk Anayasasında tek taraflı değişiklik yapabilmek için” partisinin en az […]
CONTINUE READING →The Turkish Ruling Party’s Declared Intention To Change “Turkey’s Founding Principles” Protected By The Current Constitution 1. Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, PUBLICLY STATED its intention to change the Turkish Constitution right after the General Elections, scheduled for June 12, 2011. Erdogan is asking voters to […]
CONTINUE READING →The most significant aspect of the Atatürk Revolution is that it started out as a National Liberation Struggle, and after the political and military success of this battle, it developed in the direction of total commitment to modernity which aimed at the radical transformation of Turkish state and society. The Atatürk Revolution was not class-oriented. […]
CONTINUE READING →The true issue is understanding that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk single handedly saved Turkey from being eliminated from the face of the Earth as the West had already decided that it should be divide into four quarters to be governed by hostile nations. Almost 100 years after Atatürk saved a people and created a nation, that […]
CONTINUE READING →I follow with bewilderment and great sorrow the internal developments in Turkey and the heated rhetoric which has ramifications for Turkey’s place in the world and relations with its historic allies. This is not the Turkey that Atatürk envisioned. The course he set the new country on in 1923 when the Republic of Turkey was […]
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