Turkey now slams France of genocide
ISTANBUL: Turkey has accused France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria. The comments Friday by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the latest response to French legislators […]
Turkey withdraws French ambassador after Armenian genocide vote
By RFI Turkey has recalled it ambassador from Paris in protest at a French bill making the denial of the Armenian genocide a criminal offence. France’s lower house of parliament approved the bill, which makes it a crime to deny the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians at the hands […]
Pilgrimage to Rumi: May It Be Love
Omid Safi, Huffington Post A few days ago I stood with a few thousand people, huddled inside Rumi’s shrine, celebrating the 738th anniversary of his passing on to the Beyond. […]
France and Turkey in war of words over 1915 massacre of Armenians
A war of words between France and Turkey escalated on Wednesday over the 1915 mass killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, with France’s Europe minister claiming […]
Vatican in bid to resolve Syria crisis as U.S. prepares to strike deal with Iran
By Antoine Ghattas Saab The Daily Star, Lebanon The Vatican is engaged in an attempt to resolve the nine-month-old crisis in Syria, while the United States is preparing to strike […]
Video shows Turkish woman being slapped by police
Istanbul (CNN) — A high-ranking Turkish government minister is calling for the speedy punishment of several police officers who were caught on a police station camera, repeatedly slapping a detained woman in the face and pulling her hair even after she had been hand-cuffed. The video showed an incident that […]
How Europe came to forget about its Arabic heritage.
BY ABDUL HAQ COMPIER Source / Courtesy: January 2011, Alislam-eGazette Summary: Traditional education about Western civilisation tells the story of how around 1500, Greek texts recovered the lost memory of Europe’s Greek […]
Noah’s Ark officially found in Turkish mountains
Irina Shlionskaya. Pravda.Ru 02.12.2011. In September 1960, a 27-year-old US doctor Ron Wyatt, an amateur archeologist, read an article in Life Magazine about the phenomenon. The search for Noah’s Ark became the primary objective in his life. In 1977, Wyatt started the mission to Turkey with his two sons. Having […]
World’s top Muslims list appears with Erdogan only #3. Who should be #1?
An annual list of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims has appeared and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, the man who made Turkey’s “Muslim democracy” a model for many Arab […]
Graphic Image Fuels Push to Protect Turkish Women
STANBUL—A Turkish newspaper’s front-page photograph of a woman with a knife sticking out of her naked back after her husband allegedly stabbed her has triggered controversy, in a nation dogged by high levels of domestic violence and so-called honor killings. Enlarge Image Agence France-Presse / Getty ImagesProtesters in Ankara in […]
World changing, civil society advancing
By ALI BLUWI ARABNEWS Arab citizens are fed up with the West’s ideology as well as double standards Many pundits and analysts ponder the reasons that made the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 the breaking point in the Middle East. This transformative period led to instability, particularly […]
Turkish Muslim pilgrims’ bus ‘shot at in Syria’
A bus, part of a convoy carrying Turkish pilgrims, has come under gun attack in central Syria, Turkish media and officials say. At least two people, one of them a bus driver, were injured in the attack near the flashpoint city of Homs, they say. The passengers, who had attended […]
Turkey admires Tunisia’s secular facelift
Source: asiatimes Early signs that Tunisia’s new ruling party, Ennahda, will emulate Turkey’s model of secularism in governance have boosted efforts by Ankara to harness the momentum of the Arab Spring. Although Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu abhors the term neo-Ottomanism, a look at the region now shows his country […]
Malaysia and Turkey exploring opportunities in ‘New Silk Route’
By MUSHTAK PARKER | ARAB NEWS In the corridors of power in Ankara, a new thinking is emerging especially among the “Young Turks” of the Turkish establishment. A combination of the aftermath of the global financial crisis; the seemingly intractable euro zone debt crisis with neighboring rival, Greece, bearing the […]
Saudi Arabia gives $50m for quake-hit
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The Kingdom announced Thursday it would donate $50 million in aid for Turkey’s quake victims. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah had given orders to help “its sister nation” Turkey in its efforts to deal with the devastation of the quake, the Saudi Press […]
Germany looks back at 50 years of Turkish immigration
Source : The Local This week marks the 50th anniversary of the treaty bringing hundreds of thousands of Turkish “guest workers” to Germany, a move which dramatically altered the fabric of German society. On October 30, 1961, booming West Germany signed a recruitment agreement with Turkey to supplement its workforce. […]
5 quake survivors saved from rubble in Turkey
Source/Credit: Associated Press (AP) ERCIS, Turkey (AP) — Five people were pulled out alive Monday from the rubble in eastern Turkey after a 7.2-magnitude quake leveled buildings and killed some 272 people. Four of them were rescued after one managed to call for help with his cell phone. Dozens of […]
Arabs are rewriting their own narrative
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon I had the pleasure this week of speaking at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University on a panel titled “Continuing Tensions in the Levant.” The panel made me realize two related things. First, all major players in […]
We need united stand against intolerance
By EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU The horrific and tragic incident that happened in Norway reminds us again of the importance of combating religious intolerance and promoting cultural understanding. Anti-Islam and anti-Muslim attitudes and activities, known as Islamophobia, are increasingly finding place in the agenda of ultra-right wing political parties and civil societies […]