By Dominique Moisi The Daily Star Story Summary In reality, nearly three years after the beginning of the “Arab Spring,” Turkey is more in search of itself than it is of Europe, even if it needs Europe more than Turks are willing to admit. The Arab Spring was initially seen […]
BELGRADE: Serbia’s president says he won’t take part in a Balkan initiative with Turkey in protest over reported remarks by Turkey’s prime minister in Kosovo. Serbian media have quoted Recep […]
BELGRADE: Serbia’s president says he won’t take part in a Balkan initiative with Turkey in protest over reported remarks by Turkey’s prime minister in Kosovo. Serbian media have quoted Recep […]
Source: BBC The European Union says it has agreed to resume membership talks with Turkey. The EU’s European affairs ministers, meeting in Luxembourg, said the talks would restart on 5 November, after being stalled for three years. The EU had first agreed to relaunch negotiations in June, but postponed the […]
Damage caused to Israel described as ‘significant’ and move said to be ‘an effort to slap the Israelis,’ Washington Post reports. By Barak Ravid The Turkish government of Prime Minister […]
Source: hurriyetdailynews.com Main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has claimed that he is a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, speaking during an interview with daily Hürriyet. “It is true, the family that I belong […]
Excerpts from the Arab League observers’ report on Syria make it clear that the establishment media is only telling part of the story and exaggerating violence by the al-Assad government and its police and military. The report mentions an “armed entity’ that is killing civilians and police and conducting terrorist […]
Source: The Nation October 08, 2013 YASMEEN AFTAB ALI Peace has eluded Afghanistan. The country has been the backyard for powers that have invaded her, plundered her and in the end abandoned her-much like one would an aged mistress! In anticipation of the withdrawal of US combat forces from Afghanistan; […]
The Independent: by Patrick Cockburn – There is already talk of the “Pakistanisation” of Turkish provinces like Hatay and Mardin, which are used by al-Qa’ida-linked groups fighting in Syria as their rear bases. Turkey’s open border policy for rebels means that the Syrian war is spilling across the frontier. The […]
A review of the first episode of BBC Two’s The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors, which traces the 600-year-old story of the Ottoman Empire The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors (BBC Two) […]
A review of the first episode of BBC Two’s The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors, which traces the 600-year-old story of the Ottoman Empire The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors (BBC Two) […]
President Abdullah Gul warned the Muslim world on Friday of the possibility of facing the darkness of the Middle Ages as Europe once did if interest-based beliefs are combined with […]
Source: MSN During a major policy speech Monday, September 30, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will no longer ban women from wearing Hijab in state institution. “It […]
Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek has placed the blame for the turmoil in the Middle East on those who provided weapons exacerbating the conflict, during a meeting with his Kuwaiti counterpart […]
…… Here are 5 good news stories from the Muslim world: Muslims in the UK Are Most Charitable A recent survey of the different faith groups in the UK revealed […]
By Christoph Reuter spiegel.de Foreign Islamists coming into Syria have been gathering in the relatively quiet north. But many of them are finding transit towns — with good food, video games and smoking — preferable to the front. When they do end up fighting, it’s often with each other. Atmeh […]
Source: Asia Times: On September 26, 2013, Turkey made the rather eyebrow-raising decision to put its long range missile defense eggs in a Chinese basket, announcing it had awarded a US$3 billion contract to the People’s Republic of China for its truck-mounted “shoot and scoot” FD-2000 system. More:
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely […]
One of the most enduring (and incorrect) accusations made about the Ottoman Empire is that it was intellectually stagnant. Orientalist historians claim that the Ottomans saw science and religion as […]
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Turkey’s ‘Muslim-friendly’ or ‘halal’ hotels that offer visitors an alcohol-free environment along with separate swimming pools for women and men are drawing Turkish tourists, not […]