The Obstacle to Kurdish Nationhood Has Been the Kurds Themselves

Posted on September 13, 2013 by admin

 

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 →

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Attack on Syria Does Not Benefit U.S National Security or Strategic National Interests

Posted on September 3, 2013 by admin

 

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 →

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Muslims should blame themselves and stop blaming others for their current miserable situation

Posted on August 27, 2013 by admin

 

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 →

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Moderate Islam Has Failed in the Middle East

Posted on July 31, 2013 by admin

 

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 →

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Middle East and Clash of Ideologies: Theocracy vs. Democracy

Posted on July 10, 2013 by admin

“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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The Role of Faith in Community Development: Faith and Social Capital

Posted on July 3, 2013 by admin

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The Kurds and Peace: Kurds Tend to forget The Past Easily

Posted on June 1, 2013 by admin

 

 

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 →

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Are Turkey and the United States Strategic Allies or Competitors in the Middle East?

Posted on May 23, 2013 by admin

In his visit to the United States Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was received with top honors by the Obama administration; this shows that the United States takes very seriously its strategic relationship with Turkey. The main agenda for Prime Minister Erdogan’s visit was to seek reinforcement from the Obama administration for NATO’s intervention in Syria to prevent a political solution to the Syrian crisis. Erdogan thought the crisis in Syria would be like the one in Libya. Continue reading →

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A Slam Dunk of Regime Change in Syria

Posted on May 16, 2013 by admin

The United States and its allies thought that the regime change in Syria would be a slam dunk. They thought it would be like Libya. Using a no fly zone imposed by NATO, they thought they could bomb and kill or capture Assad and thereby end the war. Syria is pretty much now at the forefront of international policy. Continue reading →

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Who Is a Threat to America’s National Security, the Assad Regime or Fundamentalists?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by admin

The West, the United States, Israel, Arabs and Turks have tried all kinds of provocations, slanders, and excuses to get rid of Assad’s regime, and sooner or later the Assad regime will be replaced by another one, which may prove to be a worse regime such as Sunni Wahabists or Gulenists. Granted, at present the Assad regime is worse; in fact, we know that more than a million Kurds who lived in Syria could not have their citizenship until the Syrian civil war broke out two years ago.

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