BirGün Daily

How many provinces would solve the country’s problems?

Setting the agenda, diverting it and obscuring the truth have become some of the governing bloc’s principal occupations. Unless we unite popular dissent on a common ground of struggle, politics will...

BirGün reporter İsmail Arı has been in prison for 13 days!

Our reporter İsmail Arı, who was detained at the Ankara Police Department after going there voluntarily to give a statement following a complaint by former RTÜK Chair Ebubekir Şahin, was remanded in...

On the structural dynamics of the crisis on the Ankara-Baku axis

The price of the fund scandal: the AKP has started to lose votes

The storm caused by the fund profiteering scandal has inflicted major damage. The erosion in market value caused by liquidation sales in investment funds has reached 6.4 trillion lira. Even polls...

Third hearing begins in the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality trial: Confidential witnesses and...

The third hearing is set to begin in the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) trial, in which 436 defendants – 46 of whom are in custody – are on trial, including the elected Mayor of Istanbul,...

BirGün reporter İsmail Arı has been in prison for 12 days!

Our reporter İsmail Arı, who was detained at the Ankara Police Department after going there voluntarily to give a statement following a complaint by former RTÜK Chair Ebubekir Şahin, was remanded in...

The trail of the scandal ends in the same place

It has been approximately two months since the fund scandal—described as the heist of the century—came to light. Whilst no investigation has been carried out that would convince the public, the...

I’ve made a request, but I’ve no idea!

Once again, I’m in Sincan Prison. I didn’t know whether to be surprised that things I hadn’t actually said such as ‘I request that you do not arrest me’ had been written in the arrest report, or that...

BirGün reporter İsmail Arı has been in prison for 11 days!

Our reporter İsmail Arı, who was detained at the Ankara Police Department after going there voluntarily to give a statement following a complaint by former RTÜK Chair Ebubekir Şahin, was remanded in...

An interview with Milosavljević Dušanka: Anyone with a bit of sense would get organized

The new government faces the task of combating organised crime and freeing public institutions from political control, whilst safeguarding the country’s unity and sovereignty. The key question is how...

Interview with Klasna Solidarnost | A historical experience in Serbia: the student list and the...

Whilst we may not be satisfied with the parliamentary transition, its impact is clear: the Assemblies have achieved what no party had managed in 14 years—they have overthrown the SNS regime. This is...

Serbian students and class

In Serbia, an electoral list comprising no professional politicians – the Student List – has won the parliamentary elections. Although its election manifesto had only been published a few weeks...

BirGün reporter İsmail Arı has been in prison for 10 days!

Our reporter İsmail Arı, who was detained at the Ankara Police Department after going there voluntarily to give a statement following a complaint by former RTÜK Chair Ebubekir Şahin, was remanded in...

The fund profiteering scandal has thrown the marketplace into turmoil

The political dimension of the fund scandal has turned into a struggle for position within the Palace. While the names of AKP politicians and bureaucrats are being concealed, accusations in the...

Journalist İsmail Arı to appear in court on 19 November: Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of up...

Our reporter İsmail Arı, who was arrested following a complaint by former RTÜK chairman Ebubekir Şahin, is due to appear in court on 19 November. Arı, who faces up to five years’ imprisonment, is due...

Sell your villa and pay our wages!

At Biltes College, founded by Can Uysal, the brother of MHP MP Levent Uysal, approximately 120 people have not been paid their wages or severance pay for four months. The teachers, claiming that the...

This crisis cannot be covered up: Who are these 60 MPs?

The fund profiteering scandal, which is being covered up through pressure on the press, is not disappearing from the agenda. YENİ Party leader Özel said: “The names of 60 AKP MPs have been mentioned...

BirGün reporter İsmail Arı has been in prison for 9 days!

Our reporter İsmail Arı, who was detained at the Ankara Police Department after going there voluntarily to give a statement following a complaint by former RTÜK Chair Ebubekir Şahin, was remanded in...

What is happening between ‘one nation, two states’? The leaders are similar, but the directions are...

Behind the crisis that erupted on the Baku–Ankara axis over a dress code lie issues that have been building up for years. Aliyev’s last-minute decision not to visit Ankara serves as a message to the...

BirGün reporter İsmail Arı has been in prison for 8 days!

Our reporter İsmail Arı, who was detained at the Ankara Police Department after going there voluntarily to give a statement following a complaint by former RTÜK Chair Ebubekir Şahin, was remanded in...