{"id":1546,"date":"2007-05-02T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/a-turkey-mini-roundup\/"},"modified":"2007-05-02T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T07:06:13","slug":"a-turkey-mini-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/a-turkey-mini-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"A Turkey mini roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601085&#038;sid=aZ9j.QkLbL6Q&#038;refer=europe\">Bloomberg<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,,-6601592,00.html\">Associated Press<\/a> have good roundups of yesterday&#8217;s events &#8211; the constitutional court blocking ex-Islamist presidential nominee Abdullah Gul and all that, plus the various threats to re-write the constitution. The best place to start, however, is probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/elections\/turkish-crisis-a-test-case-for-eu-membership\/article-163454?Ref=RSS\">EurActiv&#8217;s overview<\/a>, followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9100444\">the Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you want to get a real feel, check out our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/erkansaka.net\/\">Erkan<\/a> &#8211; on the spot in Istanbul &#8211; who has a good <a href=\"http:\/\/erkansaka.net\/blog\/archive\/2007\/05\/turkey_must_have_secular_leade.html\">roundup of reactions to the court&#8217;s decision<\/a> and current state of play, with <a href=\"http:\/\/erkansaka.net\/blog\/archive\/2007\/04\/post_45.html\">several<\/a> other <a href=\"http:\/\/erkansaka.net\/blog\/archive\/2007\/04\/cooling_down_while_turkish_rul.html\">posts<\/a> over the last few <a href=\"http:\/\/erkansaka.net\/blog\/archive\/2007\/04\/presidential_elections_starts.html\">days<\/a>, which will give you a far better idea of what&#8217;s going on than <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/military-dictatorships-are-brilliant-fact\/\">my ramblings of yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg and the Associated Press have good roundups of yesterday&#8217;s events &#8211; the constitutional court blocking ex-Islamist presidential nominee Abdullah Gul and all that, plus the various threats to re-write the constitution. The best place to start, however, is probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/a-turkey-mini-roundup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}