Family physician Başar Savacı, who works at a healthcare center in İzmir’s Bornova district, encourages children who come to the center for treatment to read books.

If only someone could defeat Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is the hope of some circles. They are even ready to applaud the devil if it can manage to do such a thing.

One of the journalists who accuse me and my colleagues of being “pro-government” says the path of newly elected Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is his path and that he looks forward to seeing him in power in 2011.

Fifty years have passed since the May 27, 1960 military coup, but not everyone in this country is eager to condemn this coup, which stained Turkey’s name by making it a country that executed its prime minister.

In the media, some journalists are doing their best to increase the speed of the winds blowing in favor of the new CHP leader, Kılıçdaroğlu, while others are trying to reduce the velocity of those winds.

Mentally challenged and disabled people marched in İstanbul’s Taksim Square yesterday in police uniforms as part of an activity held by the İstanbul Police Department.