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Attention, the PKK terror group is transforming!

08 November 2018, Thursday

Turkey has achieved many successes in its fight against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorism. By getting rid of the terror elements in the Turkish Armed Forces and police forces after July 15, the course of the fight against terrorism has changed. Especially, the unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned combat air vehicles are clamping down on terrorists. With determination and coordination, the fight against terrorism has become this effective for the first time in history.Will this effective

AK Party congress, elections and the economy

16 August 2018, Thursday

Opposition parties want to defeat the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and overtake it at the ballot boxes. This is the nature of politics. The opposition party seeks to become the ruling party by highlighting its incompetence, making complaints to the nation about the administration and producing new projects and targets.The AK Party did not give the opposition a chance to win at the polls. Because AK Party has always been in the struggle to make the best of everything. It worked with

The voters’ message to the AK Party

28 June 2018, Thursday

Evaluating the June 24 election victory from the balcony of the Justice and Development (AK) Party’s headquarters, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “We received our nation’s message to our party. In the upcoming period, we will stand before our people having completed these deficiencies.”It is an unwavering AK Party tradition: Despite having triumphed in all elections, the AK Party’s relevant boards comprehensively analyze the election results. They never say, “We won anyway, let’s not bothe

June 24 is resistance!

18 June 2018, Monday

Following the bloody incident in Suruç, neither the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), nor the Good Party (İYİ Party), nor the Felicity Party (SP) stepped up and said a single word to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) or the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or criticized them.They instead held the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party responsible for the incident and harshly criticized it.The three alliance parties have been doing this for a long time now. They are carefully av

Razan al-Najjar

04 June 2018, Monday

Razan al-Najjar. She was 20 years old. Only 20. She was a Palestinian medic. She was helping injured protestors during the peaceful demonstrations of the ‘Great March of Return,’ which was started by Gazans 10 weeks ago. Israeli soldiers responded with lethal weapons and 118 Palestinian protesters were martyred and hundreds more injured during the ten-week protests. Razan al-Najjar, a beautiful, lively and bright 20 year-old nurse, had volunteered to aid the wounded protestors throughout the mar

Justice will be sought for blackmail

19 February 2018, Monday

On July 28, 2016, only two weeks after the July 15 coup attempt, I wrote an article titled, “Ensenizdeyiz” (We are on your back), and expressed some of my concerns on the fight against the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).I had highlighted that as Turkey was fighting FETÖ as one, some were trying to solve their personal matters and others were trying to turn the struggle into a profit for themselves.It has now been about one-and-a-half years since the incident. Our determination in the fig

Kurds, PKK and Afrin

25 January 2018, Thursday

All spokespersons of the Republic of Turkey have underlined that the operation targeting Afrin is not against Kurds, but the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist organization. Information received from the ground also confirm these statements. The previous day, Anadolu Agency (AA) announced that Kurds started returning to the village of Shenkal that has been cleared of the PKK’s Syrian affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD). A 55-year-old Kurdish mother was kissing Turkish soldiers on t

Afrin operation in 10 Questions

22 January 2018, Monday

1. Why is Turkey conducting an operation in Afrin? A terror state that is controlled by terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s Syrian offshoot, the PYD, under the direction of the U.S., is trying to be established in the north of Syria. The long term plan for this is to extend this terror zone to Qandil from İskenderun. PKK/PYD controls and wishes to expand two regions called Afrin and Kobani thanks to the tolerance of the Assad regime and the U.S.’s training and weapon support. Turkey ha

Fahreddin Pasha: We forgot him, but the Arabs couldn’t

25 December 2017, Monday

The Armistice of Mudros was stipulating that Medina be left to the British-backed Arab insurgents and the Ottoman soldiers in the city surrender. The command explaining the situation to Fahreddin Pasha, who oversaw the defense of Medina, had arrived. However, the pasha had no intention to surrender or hand over Medina to the British. He resisted until the last moment. As a matter of fact, he decided to abandon his weapons and remain in Medina as a “neighbor,” in other words, a resident who came

Burj el-Barajneh

18 December 2017, Monday

When, a hundred years ago, the last Ottoman soldier left Palestine on Dec. 9, 1971, 600,000 Muslims and 60,000 Jews lived on Palestinian lands. In 1948, Muslim population hit 1.2 million, whereas Jewish population reached 800,000.Right before Israel was founded on Apr. 9, 1948, Jewish Irgun and Stern terrorist organizations brutally murdered 145 Muslims in the Deir Yassin village, which is close to Jerusalem. This horrible incident caused 1 million Palestinians to abandon their homes. In 1950, J