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Those targeted by Hamas

04 May 2017, Thursday

The renewal of Hamas's primary declaration was expected to have a tremendous impact worldwide, and that is exactly what happened. It had risked being punished by having its election results rejected by the structure – the U.S., Russia, EU and the U.N. – known as the Middle East Quarter, which is in a determining position regarding Palestine, because it, unlike the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), insisted on refusing to accept Israel's existence. As a matter of fact, the price of Gaza's

Which doors will al-Bab open?

11 February 2017, Saturday

Turkey, due to its regional role, history and geostrategic location along with its importance in many areas that can be added to these, is not a country that can be left aside. We are generally very happy to list how important we are. Indeed, looking at the region, it is not possible to show more than a couple countries that have similar qualities.Turkey's all-round importance is probably one of the country's biggest dilemmas. Ultimately, the state holds the legacy of the political and cultural

Can Russia change its name?

28 January 2017, Saturday

There is an interesting matter in Russia's draft of the Syrian constitution that emerged after the Astana talks. Accordingly, the official name of Syria is the Republic of Syria. Russia removes the word Arab from the Syrian Arab Republic, which is the official name of the state in the current constitution. The question of according to what the names of the states were given revealed interesting models especially after empires. The names of the states that emerged in the Middle East and the Balk

Arab Spring rising from the Bosporus

19 January 2017, Thursday

The form of violent action called terror is intended to be used for a specific purpose. It aims to first psychologically and then mentally terrorize what one regards as being an obstacle to actualizing what one claims to be his cause and ideology. It is more dangerous for the target audience to be exposed to a kind of abdication of reason rather than psychological depression. Even if it is against terror, it is possible that the abdication of reason produces a terrorist discourse. In other words

Is Trump going to move to Jerusalem?

05 January 2017, Thursday

With the Middle East in complete chaos and tumult, certain common objectives and sensitivities are falling off the radar. Only recently, when the Middle East was in question, headlines such as Palestine, Israel and Jerusalem would come to mind. The primary matter of concern for Western countries was protecting an occupying regime that the Arabs wanted to “destroy.” Zionist propaganda was successful in turning the historical legend of victimization, the massacre of Palestinians, and occupying the

Why didn't the US veto?

27 December 2016, Tuesday

One of the week's most interesting developments was beyond any doubt the decision the United Nations Security Council took against Israel. Surprisingly, the U.S. President Barack Obama administration adopted an attitude contrary to the U.S.'s traditional politics against Israel.The U.S. abstained from voting in the U.N. Security Council on the draft resolution declaring – also according to international law – all Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands, officially occupied by Israel, as illegal,

The Aleppo fury line

15 December 2016, Thursday

Aleppo is at the throes of death with the gravest pain it has seen in its history. The bombed state of Umayyad Mosque, bearing the sign of the prophet, where I last offered morning prayer… The silence reminiscent of the day of reckoning in the glance of the children carrying the weight of the world's entire pain and anguish in their tiny chest… The last cries of a city burned down and collapsed to ruins by bombs, where atrocity has defiled everything… The policies dragging to the rejection of ev

From the Arab Spring to the 'Arab Winter'

08 December 2016, Thursday

All demands of the Middle East and as a matter of fact, of the entire Muslim world, have been taken hostage. Once upon a time, dependent, dictatorial regimes that became estranged from their community, were protected in the name of stability. The fundamental characteristic of these regimes supported by the West or the Soviet bloc was that they were dictatorial regimes closed off to social demands. The common ground of regimes that are closed off to social demands and have no free political parti

The West's mentality sanction

26 November 2016, Saturday

We have political tension with Europe. The European Parliament (EP), leaving aside all kinds of balance calculations and internal conflicts, approved the decision against Turkey with a wide margin. The EU, which is a ball of conflicts within itself, also leaving aside strategic concerns, signed a decision that wants to teach Ankara a lesson. It can't be said that our relations with the Middle East is going well either. On one side, bloody terrorism and sectarian rivalry is pulling Turkey away fr

Neo-liberalism's alliance with neo-nationalism

19 November 2016, Saturday

Before the possible new formation of U.S. politics due to the presidential elections could even be discussed, it seems that anxiousness has surrounded Europe. Apparently, there is concern that the election results in the U.S. will encourage nationalist-right politics in Europe. If we overlook Europe's fault that led to the nationalism in the subconscious to surface in the form of ideological nationalism, we need to make sure we find this cause-effect relationship correctly. Yet, it is no secret