Tag: TURKEY
“How dare Turkey criticise UAE over Israel relations?”
Exposing hypocrisy or a fallacious question?
Has “Back-Stabbing” the Palestinian Cause become the New Norm?
Does the formal normalisation of relations between Israel and the UAE signal a new normal?
When moments like the Hagia Sophia come
When world news overflows with negativity around Islam and Muslims, it is even more important to pause and embrace the moments of celebration.
Hagia Sophia: What Western news isn’t telling you | Dr Yakoob Ahmed | Unscripted #55
On the grand reopening of Masjid Aya Sophia, Ottoman historian Dr Yakoob Ahmed discusses the history and broader Eurocentric discourses surrounding the Hagia Sophia, Islamic history and conquest.
‘War on Kurds’ Myth Debunked – Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring
Inconvenient facts for those manufacturing the Turk vs Kurd or Arab vs Kurd false binaries
Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring: call it repatriation
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…
China’s Concentration Camps: What Can We Do?
“We are witness to the ‘largest industrial scale persecution of a religious minority since the Holocaust’ and we find Muslim leaders, at best, staying silent, and at worst, speaking in support of…
Three Important Things Turkish Elections Prove Every Time
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.
Hagia Sophia to be called a mosque, says Erdogan
Tourists will visit “Hagia Sophia not as a museum but as a mosque” says Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Unity of Muslims: an anti-imperialist stance
Prof Ali Güneş argues that today's Muslim leaders should apply a policy of unity spearheaded by Sultan Abdul Hamid II almost a century ago