When street protests against the Baath regime in Syria evolved into an armed struggle, the hope that Assad would step down soon prevailed. Formation of the Free Syrian Army and sporadical clashes with the Syrian army forces followed. At that time one of the spokespersons of the Syrian opposition organized an information meeting summing up the course of events. Representatives of the circles supporting Islamic movements in Syria or at least wishing the Baath regime to step down participated. DEVAMI>>>…

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The events in Mali have revealed a new case of resistance for Africa. It is a dynamism brought about by a Salafi-based understanding of Islam. However, when the history of colonialism in Africa is considered, this is not the first instance of rebellion against foreigners. In European readings of history, which commence the history of Africa with colonialism, the remembered indigenous cultures and especially Islam serve as the simultaneous sources of local resistance. DEVAMI>>>…

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Almost every segment of Turkish society is being seriously tested these days… Whatever the solution proposals are and however different the attitudes displayed, it will show as a litmus paper the real supporters and opponents of bloodspill in this land. What follows the funeral of the three PKK terrorist leaders in Paris may blow the fire but as well it may be a successfully passed test indicating the social maturity. DEVAMI>>>…

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With deep anxiety we await the result that will emerge from the attack that suddenly changed Turkey’s agenda and that made all our hearts ache. In one moment we appeared as a country that is desired to be made vulnerable to every kind of excitement, outrage and provocation. For this reason, in spite of the Prime Minister’s excitable personality, his call for common sense was emotional, but one that addressed the sensitive issue of the country being vulnerable to being taken hostage. DEVAMI>>>…

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Analyzing the subject of Syria demands facing up to painful truths. My first reaction when the synergy of the “apolitical revolutions” called the “Arab spring” reached Syria was this: A very untimely attempt is being made. There are two reasons for this: The first is the minority-friendly and military character of the Baath regime; the other is the inadequacy of the necessary international conditions required to make such an attempt successful… DEVAMI>>>…

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Erbakan has finally passed on.

He put his stamp on at least forty years of our political life. His foes were as numerous as his friends. On the topic of Turkish Islamism he represented a first in many things. However much it is desired to put him within conservative parenthesis, he spread a universal Islamic ideology on a broad base and established his politics on this.
While, on the one hand, trying to consciously load a historical perspective on his own society to inoculate them with self-confidence, on the other hand, with this motivation he pursued his claim of being the leading country to world Muslims. DEVAMI>>>…

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The recent diplomatic traffic taking place in India’s capital did not get much attention from our media which is too much absorbed with internal politics and borrowed world problems like a shift of axis. We assume that because our eyes are dazzled by the Western axis we can protect ourselves from a shift in axis by neglecting the rest of the world. DEVAMI>>>…

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When I saw from a distance the village close to Qurtoba, one of the Islamic civilization’s most magnificent capitols, I felt a fantastic inner emotional explosion. On the banks of a river, a fortress built during the Middle Ages on a high hill over-looking the plain dominated the horizon. No, it was an Andalusian fortress. With its walls and towers, there was an Andalusian fortress in front of me. Even though some places were deformed by elements added during the Spanish Middle Ages, it could be seen at first sight that it was a work of Muslim Andalusia. DEVAMI>>>…

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I find the rapprochement between Syria and Turkey important in spite of all the reservations of the Baath regime. This is more than just a regime issue from the perspective of both Turkey and Syria.

Before anything else, the walls that were artificially placed between the people who have been intertwined by the common civilization of a geographical area must be torn down. DEVAMI>>>…

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The first meeting on the weekend after tension between Turkey and America which was triggered by Turkey’s “no” vote on the UN Security Council’s embargo against Iran gives some interesting clues in regard to new global balances and crises. The signs from the meeting are even more striking than the sudden start of PKK attacks (or more correctly, their being made obvious), the tensions on the Israeli line suddenly being made to flare up in the Turkish media and the statements made at the end of the Obama-Erdoğan meeting. DEVAMI>>>…

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