Turkey

Inconvenient facts for those manufacturing the Turk vs Kurd or Arab vs Kurd false binaries

As the world turns its fire on Turkey, it is told you were damned for backing Syria's revolutionaries, damned for fighting terror, damned for embracing four million refugees and damned for seeking to repatriate them.

While many of us in the UK only realise there’s a local election when rummaging through our take-away menus, Turkey’s local democracy teaches us all a lesson.

The facts to set the record straight...

“But they plot, and Allāh plans. And Allāh is the best of planners.”

The new system will “make Turkey stronger and more stable. This is what frightens Europe.”

“I was informed about the assassination plot by the MIT but here I am. These types of threats will not sway us from our path. We will persist on the road we set out on fearlessly..."

Erdoğan: "Muslims are way too busy fighting and disagreeing with themselves, and shy away when confronted by their enemies… since 1947, Israel has been free to do what it likes in this region. They do whatever they feel like. But this reality can be undone … if we unite."

US representatives, including the US president’s daughter, have entered into occupied Palestine to ‘inaugurate’ the opening of a US embassy on the site of the US Consulate in Jerusalem.[1] This follows the US’ unpopular move of recognising Jerusalem as the ...

Z A Rahman brings some historical background to the recent smearing of Fahreddin Pasha by UAE's foreign minister...