![Alevi demonstrators shout anti-goverment slogans during a protest against the latest violence in Okmeydani, a working-class district in the center of the city, in Istanbul May 25, 2014. Two people died last week after clashes between Turkish police and protesters in Okmeydani, a working-class district of Istanbul, stirring fears of further unrest as the anniversary of last year's anti-government demonstrations approaches. Okmeydani is home to a community of Alevis, a religious minority in mainly Sunni Musli](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/RTR3QS65.jpg/RTR3QS65.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=2w5L3Ktl)
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In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics
Al Monitor-Türkiye’nin Nabzı bölümünün yazarlarındandır. Farklı gazetelerde çalıştıktan sonra uzun süre Radikal gazetesinde köşe yazarlığı yaptı. Ajans Kafkas’ın kurucu editörüydü. IMC TV’de dış politika programı ‘SINIRSIZ’ın daimi yorumcusuydu. Türk dış politikası, Kafkasya, Orta Doğu ve Avrupa Birliği konularında uzmanlaşmıştır. “Suriye: Yıkıl Git, Diren Kal”, “Rojava: Kürtlerin Zamanı” ve “Karanlık Çöktüğünde: IŞİD” adlı kitapların yazarıdır. Twitter: @fehimtastekin
![Alevi demonstrators shout anti-goverment slogans during a protest against the latest violence in Okmeydani, a working-class district in the center of the city, in Istanbul May 25, 2014. Two people died last week after clashes between Turkish police and protesters in Okmeydani, a working-class district of Istanbul, stirring fears of further unrest as the anniversary of last year's anti-government demonstrations approaches. Okmeydani is home to a community of Alevis, a religious minority in mainly Sunni Musli](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/RTR3QS65.jpg/RTR3QS65.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=2w5L3Ktl)
![Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu (C) arrives for a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara April 8, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3KEBO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/RTR3KEBO.jpg/RTR3KEBO.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=V_BT-DTX)
![Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan poses after an official ceremony to mark Republic Day at the new Presidential Palace in Ankara October 29, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) - RTR4C07N](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/RTR4C07N.jpg/RTR4C07N.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=A69jYkCE)
![Miners work in a coal mine in the Black Sea city of Zonguldak, northern Turkey, December 5, 2013. Turkish mining experts said the country's rules and guidelines are not as extensive as some other countries. Turkey does not even have a specific set of safety regulations for the coal industry, said Dr. H. Sebnem Duzgun, a professor with the mining engineering department of Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Yet, with safety regulators across the world increasingly adopting an approach that puts more](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/RTR3RC0Y.jpg/RTR3RC0Y.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=vmcZ2dRo)
![A fighter from Zintan brigade watches as smoke rises after rockets fired by one of Libya's militias struck and ignited a fuel tank in Tripoli August 2, 2014. On Saturday, sporadic shelling resumed in the capital after two days of relative calm. Plumes of black smoke rose over the south of Tripoli from a burning fuel tank at the airport's fuel depot. REUTERS/Hani Amara (LIBYA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR411E4](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/RTR411E4.jpg/RTR411E4.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=8FbmEM-L)
![Alevi demonstrators shout anti-goverment slogans during a protests against the latest violence in Okmeydani, a working-class district in the center of the city, in Istanbul May 25, 2014. Two people died last week after clashes between Turkish police and protesters in Okmeydani, a working-class district of Istanbul, stirring fears of further unrest as the anniversary of last year's anti-government demonstrations approaches. Okmeydani is home to a community of Alevis, a religious minority in mainly Sunni Musl](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/11/RTR3QS5R.jpg/RTR3QS5R.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=pSLa5qcD)
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![Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra members gesture while posing on a tank on Al-Khazan frontline of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province May 17, 2014. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib (SYRIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT) - RTR3PM9N](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/11/RTR3PM9N.jpg/RTR3PM9N.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=Kfmtv-W_)
![Turkish classical pianist Fazil Say performs during a concert in Ankara October 14, 2010. Internationally acclaimed Turkish classical pianist Fazil Say goes on trial on charges of insulting Muslim religious values in comments he posted on Twitter. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) - RTR399ZY](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/10/RTR399ZY.jpg/RTR399ZY.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=PIVJgW2u)
![U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu talk to the media before a meeting in Ankara September 12, 2014. Kerry will meet Cavusoglu, as well as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and President Tayyip Erdogan during his two-day visit to the capital Ankara, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR45Z12](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/10/RTR45Z12.jpg/RTR45Z12.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=QG65Eu6d)
![U.S. President Barack Obama (R) meets with retired Marine Corps General John Allen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington September 16, 2014. Obama has chosen retired Allen, who served as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to coordinate international efforts to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. Allen is named as the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition against ISIL, the acronym the administration used for the Sunni Islamist movement. REUTERS/Gary Cameron](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/10/RTR46FXX.jpg/RTR46FXX.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=QojSOfa6)
![A Kurdish flag and a Islamic State flag flutter on each end of the Mullah Abdullah bridge in southern Kirkuk September 29, 2014. Members of the Kurdish security forces and the Islamic State are holding fort behind sandbags on different ends of the bridge. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR4884H](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/10/RTR4884H.jpg/RTR4884H.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=r3jKqbLD)