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Fair or not, perceptions matter in every field of life, sometimes to the extent that reality becomes trivial. In politics, the successful management of perceptions is much more crucial and ...

A week ago on Friday the landmark Turkish court ruling about the “Balyoz” (Sledgehammer) case initially resulted in handing down three 20-year plus another 214 extended sentences, respectively, for a ...

The İstanbul 10th High Criminal Court has made a historic judgment in the Balyoz investigation. For the first time in the republican history of Turkey, military servicemen who allegedly acted ...

Democracy can be associated with such noble principles and notions as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom to discuss everything, pluralism, transparency and accountability.   However, some would like ...

US President Barack Obama's foreign-policy landscape is littered with deflated balloons. Soaring speeches, high hopes and great expectations have yielded minimal returns. Across the Islamic world -- from North Africa ...

Muslims have been under serious criticism lately. The turmoil ignited by the anti-Islam movie has stirred a profound debate among intellectuals worldwide, especially Muslim ones. How should we respond to ...

In my article last week, I inquired why we Muslims (at least a part of us) resort to demonstrations that shake the world and often end violently. This was a ...

Recently, four American diplomats, including the US ambassador to Libya, were killed in Benghazi by a group of morons, protesting a so-called movie insulting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), produced by ...

It is very easy in Turkey to be labeled by secularists or Kemalists as being anti-Atatürk or anti-secularist, and the first mental image that pops into mind regarding the accused ...

It is important to remember Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, once foreign minister of Turkey, for his influential roles in the recognition of Turkish Cyprus as an independent state through international treaties, ...