World Press on Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus (April 4, 2012)

Hurriyet published an article by Murat Yetkin devoted to the trial leaders of the 1980 coup. The article is headlined 'An end to the era of coup d’etats'. "This is going to be the first of its kind in a country, the recent history of which has been stained with three coups d’etat by its military and a number of attempted ones. Therefore the trial is considered historic," Yetkin says. He hopes that the trial will bring the end of an era and push Turkey to a higher level of democracy.

The Guardian also published an article devoted to the case. According to the article, there are some doubts about the ruling Justice and Development Party's motives. "Some secularist conservatives in military and civilian circles see Erdogan's moves to cut back the power of the military, reform the judiciary and rewrite the constitution as a move to establish an Islamic order," the article reads.

The Washington Post published an article about Neslisah Sultan, twice-exiled former Ottoman princess, who died yesterday in Istanbul.  Neslisah Sultan was born in Istanbul on February 4th 1921, two years before the Turkish Republic replaced the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled Turkey, parts of the Middle East and eastern Europe for 600 years. Her grandfather, the last Ottoman Sultan Vahdettin, and all other members of the dynasty were sent into exile in 1924, and the princess spent her childhood and adolescence in Nice, France, before moving to Egypt. Neslihan Sultan was married to Egyptian Prince Muhammed Abdel Monem. Prince Monem headed a regency committee that ruled from July 1952 to June 1953, when the new rulers of Egypt turned the country into a republic.