Tag Archives: TURKISH

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

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.

Should brown people's Britishness be dependent on good behaviour?

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

Contrary to prominent western media narratives, hundreds of thousands of Turks from all over Turkey and from every political persuasion gathered in nationwide rallies marking one year since the failed coup, under a motto of National Unity...

The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2017 reveals that, as well as being the provider of the second largest amount of humanitarian assistance, Turkey provides the most humanitarian assistance as percentage of gross national income...

Prominent Islamic scholars from Turkey published a statement in support of Qatar and the Egyptian born and Qatar-based Shaikh, Prof Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi...

In a delightful irony, if he were alive today the far right groups in the UK venerating him as a saint would reject him, call him a foreigner, and tell him to go back to his own country...

Shaikh Dr Haitham al-Haddad congratulates Turkey on its historic referendum, in spite of the systematic demonisation of Turkey's leadership across the west...

The run-up to today's referendum has caused the veil to slip from many European states and "journalists" revealing their contempt for Turks and fears of a strong Muslim nation...