When we talk about reading the alternative history, of course first of all, the last  times of the Ottoman Empire and the disputes on the first years of the establishment of the Republic come to mind. The tension between the things that the fictioned history teach and hide is the only difference of the political position for a majority. The ideological historicalness will go on feeding the rival political rhetorics as the dilemma of the fictioned and forbidden-to-speak history ( formal-informal) is so strongly discriminated. DEVAMI>>>…

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The ones who passed the Lebanese border and reached Syria seemed to have the shock of what they lived in their own lands when they looked back behind. Most of the ones who came had relatives in Syria or a place to stay or as the most important among all of these, they could find a vehicle to pass the border… They were the tired people of the war who had to leave their country behind no matter their social and economical positions were…. DEVAMI>>>…

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The conflicts that occur sometimes are casual. The most explicit example is Iraq in which the sectarian conflicts have been started to being fuelled. Being together Shi’is and Sunnies is not a reason for a sectarian fighting in the region that is the center of Shi’a. Thus, the sectarian and ethnic segregations/ conflicts are new modern illness for the region and unfamiliar tendencies in terms of its history and social structure. DEVAMI>>>…

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American administration claims to bring the sides to Annapolis after seven years for an expanded peace in Middle East, more truely between Palestine and Israel. So it is in a way trying to save its image in Iraq in Palestine. But there is no reason for being hopeful as we look at the position of the parties and the timing for an assertive peace summit. DEVAMI>>>…

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