The Lion Tattoo on Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s Back and Turkey’s Elections
Kılıçdaroğlu appears to have persuaded his coalition partners that a lion with no head, tail,…
Upside-Down Narratives: Paris Attack Targeted Muslims, Not Kurds
The anti-Muslim and xenophobic perpetrator openly attacked the “Ahmet” component of the Ahmet Kaya Kurdish…
How Turkey’s Opposition Demonizes Refugees
According to the CHP leader, every segment of society, “shopkeepers, farmers, laborers, unemployed, disabled, interns,…
Unprecedented Times: Macron’s France at an Impasse
Whatever had not happened before in the history of the Fifth Republic has taken place…
Islamophobia and the French Presidential Election
In his brief 10-minute speech after the election results were announced, Macron hastily began embracing…
How the Russia-Ukraine War Turned the Political Climate in France Upside Down
Muslims in France could partially breathe now because people are now more afraid of the…
Éric Zemmour: An Anti-Semitic Candidate For a Better Islamophobia in French Presidential Elections?
Even 93-year-old former far-right party leader Jean Marie Le Pen declared that he supports Zemmour…
France under Macron: All Citizens Can Criticize the Republic Except Muslims
When will France end its war against its own Muslim population that it had always…
French “Enlightenment Islam” and State Authoritarianism
Today’s France instead of creating a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country, a model of integration, it…
Macron’s “Islamist Separatism” Discourse Is An Islamophobic Hysteria
The fight against the so called “Muslim Separatism” in France reveals a lot about France’s…
The Right to Blaspheme, the Mila Case, and Islamophobia in France
Today, Islamophobia is not only the fear of Islam, but has become an explicit threat…
Despite Quiet Threats, Mothers of Diyarbakir Continue to Resist
The terror group and their supporters certainly use an iron hand in a velvet glove.…
Islamophobia Is Now a Source of Pride in France
French Muslims live in a climate of hate and face a continuous atmosphere of discrimination…
Expanding Definitions of Anti-Semitism Shield Israel from Its Crimes
Israel labels almost every critic as anti-Semite not because it is excessively resentful or paranoid…
French Islam: How France and the UAE Partners to Create a State Approved Religion
Just as the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman offered to cooperate with Britain to…
‘Give me my son or I will burn this place down!’: A Kurdish Mother’s Fight against the PKK
Now, Kurdish mothers whose children were abducted by the PKK are encouraging each other to…
Cüneyt Cebenoyan: A Turkish Leftist Who Spoke the Unspeakable
After Cebenoyan died in a car crash on August 3, 2019, most of the people…
Has Conservative Politics Come to an End in Turkey?
The successive election victories of the AK Party led by Erdogan for the past 17…
Ekrem Imamoglu Is Not the Political Rockstar Turkey’s Opposition Is Expecting
The real cause of excitement in both Turkey and the West over the CHP’s Istanbul…
Istanbul Mayoral Election: Will Everything Be So Fine for Ekrem Imamoglu?
For three months up until the March 31 election, “everything was fine” for Imamoglu, but…
Istanbul Mayoral Elections (I): What Really Happened
For what or in spite of what did the AK Party and its ally MHP…
Istanbul Mayoral Elections (II): CHP for Democracy or Democracy for CHP?
The CHP is the only unrivaled political party in Turkey in objecting to the election…
Will Ekrem Imamoglu Follow CHP Politics or Erdogan’s Footsteps?
Will İmamoğlu, a high-profile CHP politician now, perform Friday prayer with congregation on Fridays? If…
Turkey’s Communist Mayor
“If the girls of Dersim had not been given out for adoption, they would have…
Öcalan’s Birthday and the PKK’s Day of the Dead
“Today, Kurdish women and youth are sacrificing their lives for Apo because of his contributions…
Jacinda Ardern and the World’s Muslims
While cultural racism and Islamophobia invade all corners of Europe, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda…
The European Parliament Seeks the Medieval Age in Hagia Sophia
The European Parliament considers defending Hagia Sophia’s conversion into a mosque an extremism and underlines…
The Hysteria of Cultural Racism
The French Muslims are afraid right now. Politicians, intellectuals, and the media are incessantly speaking…
Undemocratic But Democratic: How the Global Hegemony Is Maintained through Coups
Speaking to New York Times, a senior officer who has worked in the Venezuelan military…
Blackface in Fashion: Attention Seeking or Institutional Racism?
Fashion has the power to turn worn out pieces into highly demanded top trends with…
What Does the Golden Rule of Politics Say for CHP’s Conservative Candidates?
Ekrem Imamoglu started his campaign by visiting the mausoleum of the Ottoman Emperor Mehmed II,…
Macron’s Syria Policy: Does France want to Play the Role of the US?
French President Emmanuel Macron took his stance in the White House-Pentagon conflict, praising James Mattis,…
Do Historical Analogies Make Sense to Understand the Yellow Vest Movement in France?
Despite all these comparisons, it is commonly believed that the Yellow Vests constitute an unprecedented…
Yellow Vests and Little Red Riding Hood
Having come to Brussels for a conference organized by far-right groups in a way reminiscent…
Yellow Vest Protests and the Constraints of Modern Democracy
The yellow vests uprising is not an identity movement. This very aspect is the actual threat…
Macron’s Censorship Law for Democracy
While Macron believes that the Press Law of 1881 is not enough to fight the…
How did the US give up Backing the PKK?
An article in the PKK’s newspaper “Yeni Özgür Politika,” which is published in Germany and…
Is the Old Turkey Coming Back?
The old Turkey was a period when the nation was reduced to only one ethnicity…
In Memory of Ara Güler: Turkey’s Visual Historian
Ara Güler, who sadly passed away at the age of 90 this week, was Turkey’s…
Nobel Peace Prize Should Have Gone to…
Of course, Murad’s and Mukwege’s experiences are unbearable and the duty they take on is…
The French Islam
Associating a terror group with Islam is scandalous. Would have DAESH been called a “humanist…
Colonial Past Haunts France (II): The case of General Aussaresses as an Attempt to Vindicate the French State
During the three-day hearing in which he was tried with the demand of a 5-year…
Colonial Past Haunts France (I): Torture in Algeria Finally Confessed
According to historians and newspaper archives, torture was not started by the French military during…
Human for Sale? Human Breeding Has Become More Dangerous than the Atomic Bomb
It is fascinating that those who referred to atomic bomb as healthy children 73 years…
The US atrocity and Trump as a scapegoat
U.S. President Donald Trump is also a scapegoat. Since his inauguration, his discharge is constantly…
Long live putschists, long live unlawfulness!
While the majority of coup plotters were tried and arrested, some of them fled to…
Does the Turkish opposition have any sense?
Sad, isn’t it? The CHP and its leader Kilicdaroglu, who faced nine election defeats, did…
Evangelicals and the messianic character of US foreign policy
Of course, the threat is not because evangelicals believe in seven curses that will appear…
FETO’s German Wing and the Supreme Court
Surely there is a Supreme Court in Berlin today. But it is alarming that a…
Will HDP Choose Democratic Politics and Stand Against the PKK?
With its 67 deputies, the HDP has another chance to choose democratic means over violence…
PKK, Kamikazes, Lotus Flower and Dessert
The PKK does not only announce their acts with the notes they leave near the…
“They Would Have Crucified Me”
The trauma experienced by the CHP electorate since the election day is surely in the…
Ditches Against Peace, Terror Against Politics
During the ditch terror that the PKK inflicted, half of the population in Sırnak’s Cizre…
Turkey’s Snap Elections: Why During the State of Emergency?
In the Ottoman Code of Civil Law, there is a nice rule: “Bad examples do…
The 300 French Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Just as France did not act with religious motifs while colonizing Africa, it also did…
An Alliance of Chaos?
Will they say “We do not have any mutually-agreed program on any subject. We only…
Kemalism is Over, Long Live Opportunism!
Over the course of the past seven years, Kilicdaroglu’s CHP differed from former party leader…
Who is Afraid of Early Elections?
The CHP chairman Kilicdaroglu does not seem to know yet if he will run himself as a…
A Religion of Secularism?
Secularism, which turned into the official religion of the state with the 1905 French law…
FETO’s Russian Roulette?
As part of the investigation Turkey and Russia conducted jointly, Russia asked to examine the…
How Old is France’s Latest Syria Move?
The statements issued by Élysée Palace regarding the Macron-SDF meeting stressed the male and female…
CHP’s Possible Strategies for the 2019 Election
From the 1970s onwards, Erbakan established four different political parties – all which were shut…
Politics versus Justice in the US: Iran Sanctions Case
Everyone is aware that despite Halkbank being a completely different case, the super-powerful US could…
Where does Meral Aksener’s Iyi Party stand in Turkish Politics?
In order to appeal to all political factions, Aksener has gathered various figures, who are…
FETO and its Role in Stoking the Kurdish Issue
How the PKK dug trenches in many cities, especially in Diyarbakır, in order to start…
Germany’s “New Free Policy”
There is a newspaper, published in Frankfurt and sold along with Frankfurter Allgemeine, Le Monde, Le Figaro, El Pais and The…
How Gülen adopted the Assassin’s Strategy
Even if Fetullah Gülen did not examine and take after Hassan-i Sabbah and his Hashashin – which is…
The Journey of a Soul: Ayşe Şasa
An elderly woman said “You assume that life is over, but it suddenly starts over,…
Why DAESH is So Pleasant to Israel
Daesh, the world’s most modern and sadistic terrorist organization – known for putting people into…
Is Marine Le Pen Far Right in the French Presidential Elections?
The French are getting more used to far right by the day. The enemies and…
Why People said “Yes” in Turkey’s Referendum
If the referendum on the presidential system in Turkey was a close call for “no,”…
French Elections: Being an Outsider in a Post-Truth World
If the predictions of the research companies are true and Le Pen is able to…
Turkey and its Ceremonial Parliament
Is Turkey completely free of issues regarding democracy? No, not completely. Yet, people have become…
Was July 15th a Controlled Coup Attempt?
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has made an allegation this…
Sultans of Democracy Demand the Head of Erdoğan
Anti-West sentiments increase among millions of supporters of Erdoğan and even those who oppose him.…
Paranoia and Propaganda: Russia’s Role in European Elections
Former president of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy, in his recent interview to France…
The Curriculum Debate: Has Positivism left Any Reason for Humankind?
In Turkey today, there are discussion about how children should be taught the theory of…
President at Élysée Palace, Queen at Buckingham Palace!
Despite all the illegitimate attempts aiming to depose him, Erdoğan received 51.79% of the votes…
The Gülen Cult, between Modernism and Narcissism
Our experiences show that resorting to violence or committing massacres are not confined to a…
How Women are De-Humanized
In Marilyn Monroe’s Fragments, a compilation of her intimate notes, poems and some letters, there’s…
Who Killed Karlov?
Who killed Karlov, the Russian Federation’s ambassador to Ankara? According to the initial findings, there…
Portrait of a French Sufi on the Night of Reunion (Şeb-i Arus): Eva de Vitray Meyerovitch
Eva de Vitray Meyerovitch died in Paris in 1999, at the age of 100. She…
Turkey – EU Relations recall Serge Gainsbourg’s Song: Je t’aime! Moi non plus!
At the current point, the bridge between Brussels and Ankara isn’t functioning well for both…
If the US has Trump, France has a Myriad of Trumps
Millions of Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians and others in the Middle East are struggling to survive…
Much Ado About Nothing! Islamophobes and Racists, don’t be Afraid!
Unfortunately, it seems that little has changed for the 6 million Muslims living in France.…
