Anti-Turkey Cartoon by Geert Wilders Has a Backstory in the Netherlands
On the evening of the Netherland’s NCTV report was leaked to the media, Geert Wilders published a cartoon on Twitter insulting Turkey’s President Erdogan.
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The Most Dangerous Place in the World: Jammu & Kashmir and Its Ongoing Border Disputes
The people of Jammu&Kashmir do not engage in border disputes with each other. They wait for a plebiscite, promised by…
The Last Remaining Arms Control Treaty between the US and Russia Expires Soon: An Interview with Rebecca Davis Gibbons on the New START
New START Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty is expiring on February 5, 2021. Nihan Duran interviewed Rebecca Davis Gibbons on the…
The Arrest of Alexey Navalny: Who in Russia Is Afraid of the Kremlin Critic?
Alexei Navalny can pose a serious threat not to Vladimir Putin, whose approval ratings are still high, but to certain…
A Clash with Silicon Valley is Inevitable: Social Media Giants Turn More Aggressive
With their embargo against Trump, tech giants intervened more visibly than ever before in the political system of their own…
Living as Muslim in New Zealand after the Christchurch Mosque Attacks: An Interview with Anjum Rahman
All the concerns are still there. There are people, going down the path of hate. The systemic and institutional discrimination…
Will Latin America Turn into Another Domain of Right-Wing Politics?
The growing influence of evangelical Zionists is not the only drive for the establishment and solidification of far-right regimes in…
French “Enlightenment Islam” and State Authoritarianism
Today’s France instead of creating a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural country, a model of integration, it replicates the former attitude towards…
Malaysia and Turkey: Old Friends, New Allies?
Turkey views Malaysia as its gateway to Southeast and East Asia, and likewise Malaysia sees Turkey as its doorway into…
The Insurrection and Its Discontents: American Exceptionalism Revisited
Surely, the storming of the U.S. Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the collective rejection of the…
GCC Breakthrough Faces Risk of Relapse as Underlying Tensions Remain
Even if competition is more than likely to continue, reconciliation between Qatar and the Saudi bloc can incentivize the parties…
Capitol Hill Attack Is the Logical Endgame of Trumpism
Unaccountability breeds impudence. It is an urgent moral necessity to hold accountable all those who incited the coup attempt through…
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 own history and view of…
Political Assassinations: From the Assassins to Modern Politics
What is most worrisome about political assassinations today is that just like the assassination of Ferdinand in 1914 was the…
“We Are Scared of Our Own Shadow”: An Interview with Raphael Liogier on Islamo-Paranoia in France
First thing we should do is to stop talking all the time about Islam. Because when we talk about Islam,…
French Youth and the Far-Right: When Will the Culture War Begin?
What is happening in Europe today with the rise of right-wing parties is a generational change that reflects a shift…
Morocco Lost One of Its “Sacred” Causes with the Israel Normalization
Until Donald Trump announced the US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in exchange for the restoration of diplomatic…
Search of Turkish Ship on the High Seas Was Illegal
The command council of Operation Irini is dominated by France and Greece, both in a serious conflict recently with Turkey…
Should We Care About the New Variant of COVID-19?
We need to realize that new and deadlier variants of the Coronavirus are possible and they can possibly resist the…
