Finally, the kids of those who brought freedom, fraternity, and egalitarianism to the world took action against the Islamic forces that were on the edge of choking the Middle East into darkness and wildness!
That means our region might feel safe against the danger of rolling into the medieval darkness. DEVAMI>>>…

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The election results, which will determine whether Scotland will break off from the UK – or to be more clear, from England –  is significant, especially for the individual voters. The election, per se, is pregnant with important consequences.
The dismantling of the UK, which once was the empire “where the sun never set” and looked like a fisher isle, can be read as the decline for the advanced historical point of European enlightenment today. DEVAMI>>>…

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Every term, when popularized, loses its content. Everything with a meaningful content may be evaporated. What we are living through is assessed in terms of emptied values, relationships and interests. Our minds strive to observe developments through their narrow strategic outcomes and goals and our same minds are trying to produce counter-strategies. Yet, when it”s considered that an effective strategy, determined value and experience don”t exist, it is impossible not to fall into the trap of Machiavellian indecency. DEVAMI>>>…

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It had been forgotten that the powers, which form the Western Alliance as a military strategic and ideological design, are formed from countries that had choked one another in history. Although, the Western Alliance design, which stands like strategic irony, had held two elements together until today; a common enemy threat and the U.S.A’s de facto hegemonic power. Meanwhile, recently we had experienced that the necessary system demands like democracy, human rights, capitalist system, which are becoming prominent as the Western values, have a weight at the rate of strategic priorities. DEVAMI>>>…

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What is religion and what is sacredness? Is everything that is divine a religious thing? If a Muslim restricted his relationship with religion to the sacred, would he act Islamically? Many people are preoccupied with other issues that they cannot deal with these kinds of questions and likewise they don’t want to be bothered due to their brain comfort. DEVAMI>>>…

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In an age like ours where the communication technology has so much improved, we can predict that the privacy, state secrets and military intelligence cannot remain totally as a secret. Thanks to the intelligence activities and their sophisticated methodologies, advanced technologies, as individuals we are under surveillance unprecedented throughout human history. Our ‘freedom’ amounts to the capacity of our surveillance. In as much as the state has developed the sophisticated intelligence methods, it provides us the sentiment of freedom to that extent. Since the traditional state mechanism applies this auditing with primitive methods, it establishes its own control through more sensible, compelling, violence-bearing ways. DEVAMI>>>…

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While Turkey was quite preoccupied with the change at the summit of the state, a quite relevant meeting with the country was held in Germany. On the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the World War I, the Balkan conference which was held in Berlin is completely a product of a perfect German strategic vision. The Balkan conference is significant in determining what the role of the Eastern Europe is, especially the Balkans and what strategic vision will give its shape. DEVAMI>>>…

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When national interests and objectives are in question, a general reconciliation and solidarity will be provided in the foreign policy. National objectives, and in the strict sense, foreign policies have an important effect on the formation of rooted nations’ identities. Sadly, it’s not right that these objectives are always including rightfulness, justice and truth. Actualizing different politics through these types of national feelings and mobilizing the society is one of the most frequently used methods used by governments. DEVAMI>>>…

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While we are still trying to elaborate the last incidents in Iraq, we don’t mind putting our clichés into the topic and simply putting it away as ‘America is behind ISIL’. This way we get rid of all of our responsibilities and supposedly solve the most enigmatic question of the region in a moment. Of course, every kind of incident in a country like Iraq, the center or summary of the Middle East, is in the interest of the US as is the case with the Syrian issue. However, to skip the social, historical background, political developments, local actors and take the easy way out immediately does not solve the questions. Looking at the incident from a geostrategic equation, those, who argue that a Shia crescent has risen with the latent allegiance between America and Iran, are just as coherent when explaining that there is a strategically breaking of the above equation through the allegiance between Sunnis (howsoever represents Sunnism) and the US. DEVAMI>>>…

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I should state this from the beginning; this article is not the examination of Salafism or another superstitious, practical sect in terms of theology. Within the frame of the Koran and Sunnah, a Muslim can adapt to different comments and opinions. In this context, it’s self-evident that there is a right to choose within Islamic understandings. DEVAMI>>>…

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