Reason for Syria strikes on Turkey is apparent
BEIRUT — Syria’s cross-border attacks on Turkey in the past week look increasingly like they could be an intentional escalation meant to send a clear message to Ankara and beyond, […]
Turkey’s parliament authorises military operations against Syria
Guardian: Turkish military fires into Syria for second day after five civilians are killed by shelling in border town Turkey’s parliament has authorised military operations against Syria and its military […]
Turkey fires into Syria for fifth day
Turkish artillery fired into Syrian territory yesterday for a fifth consecutive day, responding swiftly after the border town of Akcakale was once again struck by a mortar round. Turkish artillery […]
Sanctions hurt Syria and Iran but regimes can ride on regardless – One of the small but immensely wealthy states which may suffer from Iran’s crisis is Dubai
by Robert Fisk, The Independent The Tehran “bazaaris” – the men who have shouted for an end to Iranian subsidies to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad – have to be taken seriously. They were the rich boys of the souk who supported the Islamic revolution against the Shah, the […]
Turkey returns fire after new Syrian shelling
Source: TOI: ANKARA: The Turkish army early on Saturday returned fire after a new round of shelling from Syria hit the border province of Hatay, the Anatolia news agency reported. Read More:
Syrian War Threatens to Spread to Neighbors
Source: Spiegel-Germany AFP With deaths in Turkey, shelling in Lebanon and skirmishes on the border with Jordan, it is clear the war in Syria has begun to spill over to into neighboring states. The longer the crisis lasts, the greater the danger becomes of a major regional escalation. More:
Turkey says it doesn’t want war with Syria
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country does not plan to wage any war against Syria after the Turkish parliament gave the nod for military operations outside the country. PRESS.TV “We have no intention of starting a war with Syria,” Erdogan said in a joint press conference with […]
Turkey sends mixed signals over Syria
Source: Asiatimes: Although Ankara authorized military action against Syria on Thursday following a deadly cross-border exchange of fire, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed he doesn’t want war, while demonstrators in Istanbul reject the country becoming a “US stooge”. Amid concerns a regional conflict is about to begin, Ankara […]
Turkey Strikes Back After Syrian Shelling Kills 5 Civilians
Source: NY Times: The Turkish prime minister announced on Wednesday night that Turkey had fired artillery at targets in Syria, in retaliation for Syrian mortar fire that fell in a Turkish border town and killed five Turkish civilians. It was the first instance of significant fighting across the Turkish-Syrian border […]
Turkish democracy is example for Muslim world — Erdogan
ANKARA —- Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan trumpeted Turkey’s credentials as a rising democratic power on Sunday, saying his Islamist-rooted ruling party had become an example to the Muslim world after […]
Did Jesus have a wife? New York Times, NBC
This is an interesting question that must stir up a lot of discussions. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has always held the view that Jesus was a human being, a prophet of God and […]
Is Turkey Ready to Become the Dubai of Europe? Not quite yet.
by BLOOMBERG editors. Istanbul hopes to snatch some of the jobs and wealth that come with hosting a global financial center — a good dream to have when established centers […]
Islam’s humane view of blasphemy – Opinion, Christian Sc. Monitor
Source: Violent protests over the video that insults the prophet Muhammad highlight a fundamentalist view of blasphemy. But this interpretation relies on only a handful of sources and ignores Islamic authorities […]
Turkish Airline flying Takfiri militants of Al-Qaeda from Pakistan to Syrian borders
Source: Let us Build Pakistan By acting as a willing accomplice in global Saudi Salafi Jihadist project, Turkey is digging its own grave. Turkey in 2012 is playing the same role against Assad regime in Syria as Pakistan played in 1980s against Communist regime in Afghanistan. Not unlike the so […]
Turkish Airline Flying Al-Qaeda from Pakistan to Syrian Borders
Turkish Airline Flying Al-Qaeda from Pakistan to Syrian Borders http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9106240242 TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkey’s national air carrier, Turkish Air, has been transiting Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from North Waziristan in Pakistan to the Turkish borders with Syria, sources revealed on Saturday, mentioning that the last group were flown to Hatay on […]
School: German children cannot learn Turkish
Credit: The Local Chiara Rick from Duisburg, North-Rhine Westphalia, asked to learn Turkish with some of her Turkish-speaking classmates but was told that there was a state decree preventing it, said regional paper the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). She had learned some English while in kindergarten and has a passion […]
Migrant boat sinks off Turkey, children among 61 dead
AHMETBEYLI, Turkey — At least 61 migrants including Palestinians and Syrians, more than half of them children, died after their overcrowded boat sank just tens of metres off Turkey’s western […]
An autumn abyss becomes more likely
August 31, 2012 01:00 AM By Joschka Fischer The Daily Star In the coming months, several serious regional economic and political crises could combine into one mega-watershed, fueling an intense global upheaval. In the course of the summer, the prospect of a perilous fall has become only more likely. The […]
Family Tree of Languages Has Roots in Anatolia, Biologists Say
NY Times: Biologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology: the origin of the Indo-European family of languages. Multimedia […]
Future of Religious Minorities in the Muslim World
Source: Huffington Post By Imam Mohamed Magid President, Islamic Society of North America As an imam and as the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), I know all too well the many challenges that American Muslims experience on a daily basis. We struggle for inclusion, for acceptance, […]