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Öcalan’s Birthday and the PKK’s Day of the Dead

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On this occasion, the PKK’s umbrella group – the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) – released a statement for those in prison who died during hunger strikes and for those that are continuing their hunger strikes in retaliation against Ocalan’s isolation in prison: “Leyla Guven, our comrades in dungeons and all across Europe are sacrificing their lives to pay back the leader Apo, who led to their actual birth.

Arab Emancipation and the Liberation of Palestine

Opinion
The vectors in the war treated as booties much of the territories that were once part of the Ottoman Caliphate and that today constitute the Arab world, a world that ended being divided into no less than twenty political entities tailored in the shape of the modern territorial sates of Europe.

The End of the Liberal World?

Opinion
Domestically, the liberal interventionism of the West has undermined the very fabric of society and eroded the normative foundations of the state system not only in the targeted countries (particularly in the Middle East), but also in the regions where it originated, namely the United States and Europe.

The Link Between Brexit and Turkey’s Dashed Hopes of Being an EU Member

Opinion
The only consistency with the talks, which started informally in 1999 when I was working in Brussels, is that they have never ever been sincere in that behind the façade of the EU serenading itself on the international circuit, with Turkey’s help, all EU negotiators in Brussels who really matter (in other words in the European Commission rather than obscure MEPs who you’ve never heard of) know perfectly well that the political resistance against Turkey joining the EU has never been greater than it is today.

A Muslim Chancellor in Germany?

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” Regardless of the question as to whether German parties or society in general has connections to Christianity as a religion, it has to be mentioned once again that pious Muslims are generally excluded from political participation in Germany and across Europe.