Turkey is seeking to assure its non-Muslim citizens
By Bulent Arinc The Daily Star Lebanon After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities. In […]
Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood: Unexpected Adversaries
Credit: Stratfor: A demonstrator steps on an ostrich egg with a drawing of Saudi King Abdullah on March 17 in Ankara The political gains of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have breathed new life into long-suppressed political Islamist forces across the Arab world. While it may appear on the surface […]
Turkey exploring paths to end Kurd conflict
By REUTERS Published: Mar 6, 2012 00:04 Updated: Mar 6, 2012 00:04 ANKARA: Turkish Gendarmerie Colonel Ridvan Ozden was killed in 1995, his wife says, not by Kurdish militants, but by his own colleagues for opposing their “dirty war” and saying the solution to the Kurdish problem was not through […]
What’s inside Muslim minds? A Survey
Daily Times Pakistan: Ishtiaq Ahmad: Multiple meanings and interpretations of Islam are possible. The two main interpretative approaches are those of the apologists who strive to reconcile Islam with modernity […]
No new French Armenian genocide law before June
By RFI There will be no new French law on Turkey’s alleged genocide of Armenians until after France’s presidential election, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party announced Wednesday. France’s Armenian lobby group has demanded that candidates promise to redraft the bill after it was declared unconstitutional. No sooner had the Constitutional Council […]
Jesus predicted advent of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in Bible found in Turkey
Source: Emirates 24/7 Turkish culture and tourism minister says Vatican has asked to see the book….. Turkey says it has acquired a 1,500-year-old Bible in which Jesus Christ is believed […]
Muhammad in Bible: Bible which predicts coming of Prophet Muhammad unearthed in Turkey
The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus’ native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophet’s coming. Turkish culture and tourism minister […]
Libya wants Turkish companies to return
By SELCAN HACAOGLU | AP ARABNEWS ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey’s prime minister called on Libya on Saturday to disband militia forces to restore security and assume full power in the country, even as his Libyan counterpart invited Turkish companies to return to Libya to finish construction projects worth billions of dollars. […]
Antique bible turns up in Turkey
Reuters: Turkish authorities have confirmed that an ancient bible thought to be 1,500 years old is being kept safe after being seized from a gang of smugglers. The document is […]
China-Turkey trade to expand
Source: China Daily BEIJING – Trade relations between China and Turkey will deepen in the coming years despite inevitable frictions, experts said. “Trade frictions between China and Turkey are inevitable as bilateral trade volume expands and the global economic slowdown intensifies export competition between the two fast-growing economies,” Li Guofu, […]
“Conquest 1453” about Istanbul, hits cinemas
By Menekse Tokyay for Southeast European Times in Istanbul — 20/02/12 It is rare to see movie theatres packed in the middle of a workday, but that’s what happened Thursday (February […]
Threats of war cloud hopes for Middle East
Washington Post: BEIRUT — Fears of an as-yet-undefined Middle Eastern war are darkening the horizons of a region that only a year ago was celebrating the fall of dictators, the ascent […]
The ‘Vogue of the Veiled’ – Turkish Women’s Magazine Targets the Chaste
Source: Spiegel International The photos demonstrated conclusively to him that taboos hardly exist anymore — and that it was time to come up with something to combat the “diktat of nudity.” He knew that he and his team were on the right track. “Cosmopolitan, Elle, Vogue, Marie Claire, it’s all […]
Mideast nuke race feared
By EDITH M. LEDERER | AP ARABBEWS DAVOS, Switzerland: Former Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Turki Al-Faisal has warned that unless the Middle East becomes a nuclear weapon-free […]
‘Jordan remains committed to protecting Jerusalem’
Source: Petra Press Agency, Jordan Times. AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday underlined that Jordan will continue its role in protecting Jerusalem and its holy sites. During a […]
France urges Turkey not to overreact to genocide law
PARIS: France urged Turkey not to overreact on Tuesday after the French parliament adopted a bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide. Speaking on Canal+ television Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, who was personally against the move, said […]
France’s Armenia genocide bill faces setback
Rfi France. The Senate’s Laws Commission rejected the bill on grounds that it was inadmissible, with 23 votes for, nine against and eight abstentions. On Monday, a plenary session will vote on the commission’s decision, however most of the senators likely to oppose the bill are expected to abstain. The […]
Mullah Nasruddin
Nasruddin became known to Richard Merrill through the stories collected by Idries Shah, as a Persian Sufi folk character. This incredible personage come to life as a direct-manipulation puppet in the hands of puppeteer Richard Merrill of Brooksville, Maine. History break: In Turkey, he is known as Nasreddin Hodja of […]
Turkey warns against Shiite-Sunni cold war
Reuters | Jan 05,2012 | 23:55 ANKARA — Middle East powerhouse Turkey on Wednesday warned against a sectarian cold war in the region and said rising Sunni-Shiite tensions would be “suicide” for the whole region. “Let me openly say that there are some willing to start a regional Cold War,” […]
‘Iraq refuses passage of Jordanian trucks to Turkey’
AMMAN — Iraq has refused to allow passage of Jordanian trucks heading for Turkey through its territories, citing concerns that such a move would have negative effects on the Syrian people. Salam Quraishi, an economic adviser to the Iraqi government, said on Saturday that using Iraq as an alternative transit […]