How Gulen and Gulenists Manipulate People
The current power fight between Prime Minister Erodgan and retired Imam Gulen’s mission organization has revealed Gülen’s real agenda. Prime Minister Erdogan is launching a criminal investigation into an alleged “parallel devlet,” “a state within a state.“ Prime Minister Erdogan put the emeritus Imam Gülen and his mission organization under the spotlight in the […]
Can the United States and the European Union Stop Russian President Putin?
The geopolitics of the Black Sea peninsula has one more time become the center of major events. International politics is not about charity; it is all about national interests, and President Putin does have a national interest in the Ukraine. Thus Putin will do anything to protect that interest. Putin does not want NATO […]
The United Nations Is Just a Debating Society
The United Nations Is Just a Debating Society: It Needs Urgent Reform Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has apologized to the Syrian people after peace talks in Geneva ended without any progress. Our world has dramatically been changing economically, geopolitically and socially and has shifted the of balance of power from the West to the East.
Sochi Olympics and Putin’s Russia
The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi started with a great display of fireworks and Russian former Olympians lighting the cauldron. The games are one of the world’s most watched sporting events, and those wanting to have the world’s attention, for good or bad purposes, have a great venue to spread their news.
Geneva II Peace Conference on Syria: Syrian Civil War within a Civil War
The Geneva II Peace Conference on Syria, which seeks to end the war on Syria, seems designed to fail at the beginning of the negotiations. For any peace to be successful, all actors need to make hard compromises if they want to end the war. If they fail to compromise, the war will continue […]
Imam’s Failed Coup in Turkey: Why Gulen Has Dropped His Humanist Mask
In the past Turkey’s military junta would stage a coup and overthrow the democratically elected government, but now an imam is trying to overthrow the Prime Minister, who was elected by popular vote, along with his administration. The imam is using the military junta method in a coup d’ état by forcing a crisis of […]
Fethullah Gülen’s Power Struggle with Turkey’s Prime Minister: How Transparent Is Gülen’s Mission Organization?
Gülen and his followers are accusing Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan of not being transparent and accountable, but also of being authoritarian and dictatorial. The question is how transparent is Gülen and his organization? Recently, the Machiavelli in Pennsylvania revealed his authentic character by cursing the Prime Minister and causing hate toward the democratically elected […]
New Iran and New Middle East
Soon world leaders will join together in New York. The world expects the new President of Iran, Hassan Rohani, to be in the spotlight. In an interview with NBC, President Rohani insisted that Iran has no intention of developing weapons of mass destruction. On his Twitter account Hassan Rohani wished Jews worldwide a Shanah Tovah. […]
The Syrian Tragedy Is Not an American Tragedy
History tells us civil wars are usually resistant to outside solutions. Hate usually runs deep, and often many parties are involved with all of them having different interests, so that it is hard to satisfy every group. In Syria, Turkey supports a radical Islamist group to gain influence against the Kurdish minority. Those who fight […]
The Obstacle to Kurdish Nationhood Has Been the Kurds Themselves
With the PKK–Turkish government peace process once more sadly hanging by a thread, the Turkish media and especially the Gülenist media have already launched a pre–emptive blame game. We already know for a fact that Gülen and his followers never wanted the Turkish government to talk to the PKK or to listen to what […]