monthly review

As the European Union (EU) expands countries entering it or with prospects of doing so, such as Turkey, still imagine themselves joining a more rational capitalist order, tempered by social democracy. ..

turkey: crackdown on kurdish opposition

“It’s deeply damaging to Turkey’s democracy that the government is locking up the leaders and MPs of an opposition party that received five million votes in the last election,” said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch, “The fact that the curbs..

pakistan leader clamps down

'The U.S. has made clear that it does not support extra-constitutional measures, because those measures would take Pakistan away from the path of democracy and civilian rule,' U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters while traveling from Turkey to Israel yesterday. ..

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