In these lands, the public had chosen its President for the first time. Both Tayyip Erdogan’s and his competitors’ profiles clearly show the direction of the public’s choice. Due to these reasons, the status quo, which we call the established order, was making decisions on behalf of the public, thinking that critical offices, laws and establishments are serious matters that cannot be left to the public’s control. DEVAMI>>>…

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Not possibly, but certainly the result of the presidential election is already apparent. The candidates, the campaign that had been carried out and the language that had been used were the announcement of where the center of Turkey was moving towards and how it will be designed from now on. The competition was only about who was going to conduct this new period –the answer of which is thoroughly obvious now. DEVAMI>>>…

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The centennial commemoration of ‘World War I’ (Harb-i Umumi) began on a hot summer day: July 28, 1914. Compared to WW2 from the view of its relatively more destructive aspect of human damage, WW1 impacted our geography and Islamic world from the heart. Although we were the biggest victims of WW1 and its political, economic and cultural impacts are still continuing, we are feeling that we don’t pay it attention – any attention. As if it is an intention to forget such a tremendous devastation and to read it through the perspective of Europeans which illustrates our mental trauma. DEVAMI>>>…

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While I was wandering on the lane curving between the stone houses, I raised my head to a repeating, rhythmic sound. The sound, which was obviously human-made, wasn’t a melody, but it wasn’t a metallic din either. As I paid more attention, I caught the inner voice, the melody of the sound. DEVAMI>>>…

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Catastrophes are the greatest plagues for humanity. We are being tested with catastrophes, destructions. Our repressed true personalities and social characters come out in moments where everything is turned upside down.

When everything is settled and blessings are pouring over us, of course, it is all good. But, all of a sudden, when we jump out of our bed and everything is getting out of control, do we actually have the courage to face knowing our position on how to react – whether with rebellious feelings or gloom or trust in God – before a catastrophe occurs? DEVAMI>>>…

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Inside certain circles in the West, especially inside media, art, and academic circles, it still takes courage to bring forward the massacre in Gaza, which had become Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Of course, there are theological, economic, political and historical reasons for this love of Israel and to the attempts of stigmatizing every kind of murder as being innocent. DEVAMI>>>…

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There is nothing new under the ‘iron dome’. Well, iron dome is the name of Israel’s defense system. In fact, it is a dome which conceals its relentless aggression for being a war machine. Now the country can conceal it with an iron dome, while habitually crushing the Palestinians with an iron hand. DEVAMI>>>…

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The declaration of the Tanzimat ended the known Ottoman mentality, that is, the end of the classicism empire order. In the aftermath process, a paradigm shift occurred in the Ottoman state mind. It launched a process in which its own intellectual bureaucrats were suspected of its own values and system that led to dissolution and culminated in the yielding of the same class of people, gradually into the hands of a Westernist, enlightenmentist world. DEVAMI>>>…

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It’s a fact, there is no genuine, convincing reason for Israel to justify the attack against Gaza. It is apparent that Israel wants to use the operation against Gaza as an excuse to build up for a new era. DEVAMI>>>…

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All of us living in Turkey, whether we like it or not, should admit that our life style has changed in the last decade. In terms of economic figures, many changes have taken place in many critical fields ranging from our living habitat, environment and consumer behavior to citizen-state relationships DEVAMI>>>…

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