Ninety years since the establishment of the Republic, in an ever more complex society, the limitations and contradictions of Turkish national identity are coming to the fore more and more.

The international community should support a secular, multi-religious and multi-ethnic Rojava with democratic ambitions, that is a threat for IS and equally for the conservative Islamic government in Turkey. This is democracy in action in the Middle East.

Turkey's Alawites do not face the same threats as the people of Syria and Iraq. Despite the porous nature of Turkey's southern border, it is not about to collapse. But the Alawites of Hatay feel vulnerable.

Turkey certainly has security concerns vis-à-vis ISIS potentially taking control of the Syrian-Turkish border area. However, it is currently elevating its balance of power calculations vis-à-vis the Asad regime and Kurdish groups inside Syria above those of security vis-à-vis ISIS.

"The woman offered Hakob to lie under the bedding. Soon he could hear Turks yelling and the woman’s answer who assured them the boy wasn’t in her house. In the end the soldiers went away."

5 suspects including mine owner Saffet Uyar have been arrested for charges related to “purposefully neglected murder” of workers in the central district of Ermenek, Karaman.

"One evening, when men were away, that Turk Pasha visited them. Mother used to say he was like a family member."

The usage of f-word during a police raid stirred unrest in the southeastern district of Yüksekova with local residents awaiting an announced apology from the police authorities.

Deniz Erdoğdu from Turkish Doctors Union told bianet that while conditions in refugee camps located in the southeastern district of Suruç were not so terrible, he warned about certain infections could turn into epidemics in a matter of days.

A statute of limitations has been issued to a case held by Kırklareli High Criminal Court on the torture allegations on high school students in a military facility during Turkey’s 1980 Military Court.

Villagers from the western district of Soma planted new olive trees after a thermic power plant construction left thousands of trees cut. The event was supported by local chamber of agriculture engineers.

Saffet Uyar, the owner of a mine in Ermenek where 18 workers were trapped (and presumably dead), surrendered to the police yesterday. 8 are under detention within the investigation.