Is Normalization Possible in Turkish-Egyptian Relations?
A recent effort at reconciliation was made just before the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul in April 2016.
Turkey and Egypt: Towards a Normalization?
The Egyptian Foreign Minister’s visit to Turkey during the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit last month was an indicator of Sisi’s position—the minister only stayed for a couple of hours in Turkey, and left without conducting any diplomatic meetings with his counterpart.
The 2016 Elections in Iran
Firstly, the elections were held to determine not only the 290 members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, otherwise known as the Iranian Parliament, who serve four years but also the 88 clerics of the Assembly of Experts, a critical body of the power structure in Iran, who are also popularly elected for an eight-year term.
What is Sectarian Politics?
Today, such politics are drawing not only the Middle East, but also other territories of Islam into conflicts, due to the competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia in sectarian politics.
Turkey Debates Presidentialism: Lost in Translation?
Some citizens, especially those of Islamic and Kurdish identity, used to be less equal than others before the law.
Social Polarisation in Turkey: Myth or Reality?
Claims regarding the division of the Turkish society on the basis of adherence to Islamic values and practices are nothing new.
OIC Economy: In Search of a Concrete Solidarity
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was founded with the aim of collaborating on international political problems concerning the Muslim World.
Ms. Marvel Fighting Orientalism
The negative image of Islam is not just a Western project, but it also has a history in Turkey and other Muslim majority countries.
Diyanet Center of America: An Architectural Quest for Identity
), a fellowship hall including a restaurant, cafe and shops, a double Turkish bath with its pool and indoor sports hall, a guesthouse, a state-of-the-art Museum of Islamic Civilizations, a neighborhood consisting of Turkish houses, a Turkish-Islamic garden, open sport areas, picnic areas, fountains and parking area for 400 vehicles.
On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes
You look at the original mobilization that established the Turkish national state – I only make a passing reference to that in the book but I discuss it in at least two separate independent articles, including “the monoreligious but anti-ethnic definition of Turkish nationhood” which was published in Middle Eastern Studies in 2009, and a much more recent article, which appeared in Social Science Quarterly in September 2015 and is titled “Religion and Nationalism: Contradictions of Islamic Origins and Secular Nation-Building in Turkey, Algeria and Pakistan”.
The Geneva Talks and Syria in its Aftermath
Finding the opposition fighting against the Assad regime too “Islamic”, the US is engaged in efforts to create an artificial armed group that is in line with its own interests as done previously in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Russia in Syria
Confirming this understanding, the first heralds of what will follow came in the Islamic fatwas released by Saudi Arabian religious authorities to fight Russians in Syria
First, there is no doubt that the Russian intervention in Syria is a wrong decision.
ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited
n June 29, 2014, an armed group declared that they had established the Islamic State and that they were to restore the caliphate.
Turkey’s Settlement Process: Back to the Original Positions?
The message emphasized the common historical denominators of Turks and Kurds, who are united by their Islamic fraternity, and called on the PKK to withdraw their forces from Turkey, and stay loyal to the ceasefire until a peace agreement is concluded through negotiations.
Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”
In both cases, these “barbaric” and “foreign” attacks targeted peaceful civilians and the only possible response would be the declaration of a “global war on Terror” (Georges Bush) or a “merciless war” against the Islamic State (François Hollande).
The Syrian Crisis and Turkey-EU Relations
Second, because of the refugee flows, xenophobic and Islamophobic political parties grow stronger in every election.
