On August 23, 2016, Turkey launched Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria, with the aim of fighting the terror group Daesh and expelling them from the border areas west of theEuphrates.
Serhan Afacan interviewed Professor Şener Aktürk and talked about the present international developments with regard to the geopolitical crisis in the Caucasus, Ukraine, and the Middle East.
The fine line between remembering and reliving the trauma of previous experiences can at times unwittingly be blurred, distorting the view of the past.
The night of July 15, 2016, marks a turning point in Turkish history, when citizens traumatized by the coup attempt resisted logistically superior and heavily armed pro-coup soldiers who sought to undermine the country’s sovereignty.
urkey has lived through the biggest trauma in its recent history, as the members of the Fetullah Gülen Terror Organization (FETO) attempted a coup d’état on July 15, 2016.
The Jameel Prize is ‘an award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition’ and is currently on view at the Pera Museum until August 14th 2016.
In order to assess the geopolitical dimensions of the failed coup in Turkey, first of all, one has to acknowledge that there is a near consensus in Turkey that the failed military coup was executed by the followers of Fetullah Gülen, who has been living in the United States since 1999.
The long and painful night connecting July 15 to July 16 witnessed a series of extraordinary events that rattled Turkey’s democracy through an unorthodox military coup perpetrated by military officers associated with a terrorist organization secretly formed by messianic and secretive cleric Fethullah Gülen.
On July 15, 2016, an organized junta embedded in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) attempted to stage a coup against the Turkish government using terrorist methods.
It was not only the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) that the FETO terrorists infiltrated long before the coup attempt; some police chiefs and intelligence agents were also FETO terrorists, working within the Police Department and intelligence agencies when the junta takeover was attempted.
Auffallend war es zudem, dass die Motivation, die sich hinter dem Putschversuch verborgen hat, insbesondere in der westlichen Medienlandschaft nicht objektiv und wahrheitsgetreuthematisiert wurde.
Since the nationalist Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) administration in the early 20th century, the modernist elite in Turkey have tried to create a homogenous and “harmonious” Turkish national identity.
Great Britain’s decision to leave theEuropean Union is not only a turning point in Europe’s history but also a huge challenge for the world’s economic and political system.