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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. In addition, Iran released eleven prominent dissidents and human rights activists, including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Mohsen Aminzadeh and others. Continue reading →

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 in Syria are the Islamic rebels; they are not American allies; and they are not going to defend American national interests. Continue reading →

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 the Kurds would request in order to end the struggle. Gülen and his followers believe the only way to solve the Kurdish problem is to convert and assimilate them into their religious belief and thus their way of life. Continue reading →

President Obama and some US allies are now accusing President Assad of using chemical weapons against his citizens without showing any evidence to shape the view of the American people and as a pretext to intervene with military action against the Assad regime. We all know that in a war civilians will die; furthermore, American intervention may turn a regional multipolar war into truly international escalation. Continue reading →

Today what is going on in the Middle East is rooted in political opportunism, the spread of different ideologies, radicalism, and the distortion of religious tenets in order to instill their own ideology. The Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 led to fears in Sunni countries that the Shia revolution could spread to other Muslim countries. Continue reading →

Today democracy has become one of the features of contemporary politics in the Middle East. Many leaders, scholars and citizens consider themselves to be democrats but fail to come up with a single definition of democracy. Continue reading →

“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by Tyrants.” Benjamin Franklin

The issue of religion and the state is one of the most burning social issues in the Middle East. From Tahrir Square in Egypt to Taksim Square in Turkey people are protesting the same thing: people are battling over theocracy or democracy, and the disagreement arises from the question about what should be the supreme authority. Continue reading →

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Throughout history, the Kurdish people have faced one incontrovertible fact of real politics. Kurds have no real predictable or long-term allies in the Middle East. Because of disunity among Kurdish people, they have often sought alliances with international powers, and most of the time these friendly allies decided it was in their interest to drop Kurds in favor of the regime that they opposed. Continue reading →