The issue of fixing relations with Israel has not been on the agenda because of the heat of internal politics. Although there hasn’t been an official agreement, it is evident that discussions are happening behind closed doors. It is evident from leaked news that both parties are using their aces while on the bargaining table.

It would be hard to suddenly change the course of the discourse used when we consider the discourse Turkey used against Israel in terms of foreign politics and internal politics. The discourse bar was held so high that the Arab world, which was constantly abused by Israel, brushed off the inferiority complex and started to believe that they would take revenge. It is evident that the voices that rose from Turkey were some kind of morale boost for the Arab world, which always felt degraded by Israel and their politically inferior leaders.

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Once more, the flurry of naivety inside of us has blown up. Interruptions, ethnic or global concerns: Islamic and humane measures, justice. As long as truth is being replaced, our consciences, our sense of justice and our Islamic views will continue to be a victim of strategic calculations. DEVAMI>>>…

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The result of the election in Israel had wronged all the guesses and public opinion surveys. Netanyahu triumphed in the elections. This result does not only concern the inner balances in Israel. After all, Israel has never been a structure consisted only of being “within” itself. Israel always tried to exist with the outside; since it tries to legitimize its justification for existence with legends, it will feel safe at a direct scale to the support of outer factors. DEVAMI>>>…

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I don’t know if you are aware of it, but lately there is an ocular increase in the number of assassinated foreigners in Turkey. Almost all of their common feature is being Central Asian or Caucasian-rooted and conducting political opposition against the one-man methods, which is turning into some kind of diktat. DEVAMI>>>…

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Greece was the symbol country of the European Civilization. They were the geographical inheritors of the Ancient Greek Civilization, which formed the intellectual foundations of the idea of Europe. In order to actualize this imaginary fiction, they had been separated from the Ottomans, as the imperialist project of Europeans, and gained a political existence. One of the archaic roots of the three trivets, Athens, Rome and Jerusalem, which formed the European civilization, was rising here. DEVAMI>>>…

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There are two crucial results collecting curiosity in the upcoming June elections. The first one is whether AK Party will receive enough votes to pass to a Presidential system. As for the other, it’s whether HDP will exceed the threshold. In other words, there is a threshold issue for both parties. DEVAMI>>>…

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Netanyahu’s speech at the United States House of Representative was important in the sense of the picture he presented, rather than the message he transmitted. Despite Obama’s opposition, he had gone up to the rostrum on the Republicans’ invitation and spoke to his own voters in an environment, where he didn’t feel like being a stranger. He gave a speech about the necessity of not continuing the nuclear negotiations between US and Iran. DEVAMI>>>…

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Few exceptions aside, it is very difficult to hear a sermon in that country’s language upon entering any mosque in Europe. The language used is generally the language of the descendents of the mosque’s founders and its congregation. All of a sudden one gets the sense of being in a mosque in Anatolia or Pakistan. Not just the language, but all the rituals adopted in the mosque, right down to its decorations are reminiscent of the cultural roots of its congregation. Mostly they resemble poor copies of the societies they hail from. DEVAMI>>>…

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Today marks the 50th year of Malcolm X’s martyrdom. He was murdered on Feb. 21, 1965 at the highpoint of his struggle and at a time when he had comprehended the universal truth of Islam and had started voicing his discourse of the fraternity of Islam as a solution to the racism/discrimination between whites and blacks. DEVAMI>>>…

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Even if, during the last century, the rise in nationalism in the Middle East coincided with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, it would still be wrong to draw conclusions that establish a parallel between them.

The first nationalist currents to emerge in the Ottoman Empire were among the non-Muslims. And they managed to split away or were separated with the support of Europeans who perceived it within the framework of an “eastern problem.” DEVAMI>>>…

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