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The Table of Six’s crisis of leadership

21 March 2023, Tuesday

The Table of Six quickly failed to live up to its own claim about running the country using a metaphor of an automobile with six drivers. The addition of two more mayors made the metaphor obsolete, and this indicated that the situation was not mere political opposition, but a genuine reality.It is clear that this metaphor, produced by the public, signals beyond having multiple leaders that in the final analysis, the relativity of the ordering based on existing vote rates and deputy numbers, and

Twitteristan: meet the virtual country spewing hatred against Muslims

22 September 2022, Thursday

Yesterday, Yeni Şafak published a very important news article, highlighting a report prepared by the Islamic Council in Victoria, Australia, under the title “Islamophobia in the Digital Age.”According to the report, Twitter leads social media in inciting hatred against Muslims, and nearly 86 percent of anti-Muslim tweets come from the United States, Britain and India.During the two-year study, between August 28, 2019 and August 27, 2021, India saw the highest number, with a rate of 871,379 anti-Muslim

What role did the Turks play in Islamizing India?

21 April 2021, Wednesday

In his speech at the “Asia Again; New Perspectives in Developing Turkey’s Trade with Asian Countries” summit that was organized in January 2021 by the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEİK), Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said: “The pendulum of history is swinging to the continent of Asia once again. The 19th and 20th centuries were the centuries of Europe and the U.S., respectively. All data today shows that the 21st century will belong to Asia. Many countries are acting bearing t

Remaining Muslim in India

18 April 2021, Sunday

It was about 15 years ago when I visited India with a few friends.Our initial goal was to travel around Mumbai/Bombay, yet we extended our journey all the way to Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) out of curiosity to see the Muslim face of India.This is due to the fact that, while the ratio of Muslims among the Indian population of almost 1.5 billion is 15%, this figure was 25% in Kolkata. Therefore, it seemed like a place where we could more closely observe the life of Muslims.Early on a Friday mornin

How should we defend the cause of Jerusalem?

31 January 2020, Friday

Discussing something that is "wrong" and wrongfully discussing something are not one and the same.The latest attempt regarding the U.S. granting Palestinian territory to Israel is a huge mistake and the last of the chain of errors starting from the abandonment of Palestinian territory to British domination to date.What is most interesting is that in the ledger of history, the said wrongs are recorded as losses in the name of Muslims and profit in the name of Jews and Christians. The British open

The Saudi Kingdom’s fear of Turkey

15 October 2019, Tuesday

When you want to buy sugar, coffee, meat, et cetera products from Brazil, you will come across American companies.I enquired with a lawyer in Sao Paulo as to the reason behind this. He had said, “We even sold our soul to America in order to live: this is the reason.” I guess, being the member of an empire that was exposed to the invasion and colonization of the West, he had said this, confident I would understand him correctly.In fact, tribe leaders whose souls were bought with the British promi

Fasting is above and beyond its known benefits

28 May 2017, Sunday

We have reached yet another month of Ramadan. All praise is to our Lord who has given us this opportunity. Talks on the benefits of fasting have also started. Let them start; what needs to happen will happen. Whatever the environment requires to be said will be said; there is no escape. Eventually, the real escape with fasting is to God alone; the connection is to Him alone and its benefit also, can be requested from Him alone. I repeat, thinking that it is time for the article I wrote on Jun

Eid on days of tribulation

13 September 2016, Tuesday

I started writing my column by closely monitoring the news that appeared on my screen about a bomb-laden vehicle being blasted in the area between the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) provincial headquarters in southeastern Van province and the governorate, breaking many building windows with the impact of the explosion and several ambulances being directed to the area. Yes, it is eid today. But it is not eid for terrorists, those wanting to target the country's integrity, enemies disg

Losers ask: What will happen to us?

06 November 2015, Friday

With the Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) clear inherent victory, the choir of evil's excuses to cast a shadow over the people's expectations for today and the future, their demands, hopes and this success for the last five days, has come to an end. Now they are asking: “What will happen to us?” This question is a clear indication that those in alliance in enmity toward the AK Party became trapped under that which they announced as their reason for alliance and they were disappointed b

Parallel shackle

29 May 2015, Friday

It's obvious that the parallel structure is working with all its might to corrode AK Party and thus create a rulership problem in order to disturb the peace and stability in the country for their organizational benefits.There is a simple account behind why the parallel structure assigned their media/press opportunities, social media teams (that were formed during Gezi incidents), and their group of brothers/sisters with Jawshans in their hands, to support HDP;AK Party's rulership will not be pre