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Turkish Gov't Persecuting Artists & Journalists
Radical Islam 28 January 2013
By Abigail R. Esman
Islamofascism: A controversial buzzword among the pundits and commentators since the attacks of 9/11. The term poses any number of questions, particularly for governments of Muslim countries: Is Political Islam a fascist ideology? Can Islam coexist with democracy? What is the difference between Nationalism and Islamism in an Islamic state?
March held to protest attacks on Armenians
Hurriyet Daily News 28 January 2013
By Vercihan Ziflioglu
Many intellectuals and politicians attended a march organized on Jan. 27 in Istanbul’s Samatya district to protest recent assaults against elderly Armenian women that the 
Turkey Removes Headscarf Ban for Advocates
Bianet 28 January 2013
Turkish State Council's 8th Division suspended the regulation which banned female advocates to headscarves at work. The council division ordered the suspension upon a
Video: Angry Turks chase NATO German Soldiers on the Streets of Iskenderun
thegatewaypundit 24 January 2013
By Jim Hoft
German soldiers manning Patriot missile batteries on the Turkish-Syrian border were attacked by an angry mob of nationalist protesters. The Turks thought the soldiers were
Turkish delegations meets with Yemen Oil Minister
Yemen Post 24 January 2013
Yemen Oil and Mineral Minister, Ahmed Abdullah Dares met in Sana'a on Wednesday with Turkey Ambassador Fazli Corman and several of prominent Turkish representative of the
Danish cartoon calls Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a monkey
Islam versus Europe 23 January 2013
Danmark are famous for our export of bacon and cartoons ridiculing Islam and its leaders. Here is one more, this time from the newspaper Jydske Vestkysten, January 21 2013:
"Ayatollah to Ahmadinejad: "Have a nice trip". Below the picture: "Iran wants to send a monkey into space!""
Turkish religious affairs head meets Bosnia's grand mufti
World Bulletin 23 January 2013
Chairman of Turkey's Religious Affairs Department Mehmet Gormez met Reis-ul-ulema, or grand mufti, of Bosnia-Herzegovina Hussein Kavazovic in Ankara on Tuesday. Gormez said
Turkish PM Erdogan due to Qatar
World Bulletin 23 January 2013
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Qatar on January 29 on a working trip. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Turkish Prime Ministry Press Center
Turkish Charter Schools in America
The Moral Liberal 23 January 2013
Recent developments in Loudoun County, Virginia have brought national attention once again to Imam Fethullah Glen, the Turkish cleric whose followers allegedly run at least
German Patriot missiles systems reach Turkey
Yahoo! 22 January 2013
Germany's Patriot missile systems that will be deployed close to the Syrian border has arrived at a port in southern Turkey. Germany, the Netherlands and the United States
Turkey: Erdogan to Turkish women, have at least 4 or 5 kids
ANSAmed 22 January 2013
Turkey's Islamic populist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turkish women to have 'at least four or five children' in the name of the country's 'grandeur' and faster economic growth, the Hurriyet newspaper reports.
Erdogan had so far asked Turkish women to have at least three kids. He and wife Emine have four children, Ahmety Burak, Necmettin Bilal, Summeyye and Esra. Sixty percent of Turkey's population is under 30,
Erdogan needs to move fast to heal Turkey's divides
The Guardian 22 January 2013
By Fiachra Gibbons
Even for Turkey, where day-to-day politics is conducted at a pitch of tension and paranoia that makes prime minister's questions look like quiet hour at a Trappist monastery,
Bulgarian Turks: From Imperial Rulers To Marginalized Minority
International Business Times 22 January 2013
By Palash R. Ghosh
The bizarre attempted "assassination” over the weekend of a Bulgarian MP sheds light on that country’s long persecuted ethnic Turkish minority. Bulgarian Turks: From
#MyJihad in Turkey: 13 Muslims arrested for plotting attack on church
Jihad Watch 21 January 2013
Will the Islamophobia never end? "Police foil attack on Turkey church," from AFP, January 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Turkish police have arrested 13 suspects
Hitler ad pulled from Turkish mall following complaints
JTA 21 January 2013
An ad featuring Adolf Hitler placed at a Turkish mall was pulled following complaints by Jewish leaders. The ad at the Sapphire Mall in Istanbul was promoting a wax museum.
Turkey not keen on opening Armenia border
Public Radio of Armenia 18 January 2013
Turkey is not positive about opening its land border with Armenia to facilitate Syrian-Armenians’ entrance to the country, as suggested by a petition on the White House’s
DISH Network, Turkish Airlines Support Islamist Conference in U.S.
Radical Islam 18 January 2013
The annual convention of the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) brings together Islamists from around the U.S. and outside the
Turkey's Ugly Trap for Assyrians
AINA (press release) 18 January 2013
Turkey's permission to allow the Syrian Orthodox community to build a church in Istanbul after 90 years of the republican period did make a great splash in the Turkish press recently.
At first glance, this decision is seen as a positive signal by everyone. But upon closer inspection the matter looks quite ugly and filled with mischief. For many years, Orthodox Assyrians
Turkey's ugly Islamic supremacist trap for Assyrian Christians
Jihad Watch 17 January 2013
Islamic law forbids subject non-Muslims, dhimmis, to build new churches or repair old ones. Even in "secular" Turkey, this has been a sticking point, and now in rapidly
Turkish Journalist Outspokenly Defends Israel
United with Israel 17 January 2013
Hurriyet Daily News writer Burak Bekdil is not shy about expressing his beliefs, despite the fact that he is living presently in Ankara, Turkey under AKP rule. At times, his
