1.8 C
Frankfurt am Main

CATEGORY

Columns

[OPINION] Funeral oration for a lost country

Mehmet Efe Çaman The subjective mourning of an academic in exile Does thinking hurt? Sometimes it does, especially when thinking about the past. Things change in...

[OPINION] The end of globalism?

Ekrem Dumanlı France is boiling. Politicians have been trying to understand enraged crowds that took to the streets. Intellectuals, academics and journalists have exerted a...

[OPINION] ISIL and al-Qaeda booksellers are thriving in Erdoğan’s Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt An al-Qaeda-linked bookstore owner in Istanbul who has been selling jihadist books to Turks continues to operate without many obstacles despite a clear...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s war on books and publishing houses

Abdullah Bozkurt The untold part of the story about the unprecedented attack on freedom of the press in Turkey is the toll the crackdown, launched...

[OPINION] Erdoğan, a modern-day Don Quixote, fights millions of monsters in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Just like in the novel by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, who created a fictional character named Don Quixote who jousts with windmills...

[OPINION] The murder of the Russian ambassador exposes Erdoğan’s jihadist friends

Abdullah Bozkurt Despite attempts by the Islamist government in Turkey to hush up the investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov and falsely...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s caliphate dream put in motion in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Further evidence was revealed in Turkey earlier this month accentuating the long-held ambitions of the corrupt President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to steer the...

[OPINION] Fundamentals of the alliance between Turkey and the US undermined

Abdullah Bozkurt The fundamentals of the security cooperation between Turkey and the United States have been seriously challenged and undermined by the government of President...

[OPINION] Al-Qaeda and ISIL outfits operate in Turkey under charity cover

Abdullah Bozkurt Two front aid groups that operate in Turkey’s southeastern border provinces near Syria, led by known militants of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State...

[OPINION] The air force on NATO’s southern flank gutted

Abdullah Bozkurt The Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has gutted the NATO alliance’s second largest army, depleting what used to be a robust...

[OPINION] Erdoğan shields Hizb ut-Tahrir from criminal prosecution in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Hizb ut-Tahrir, an outlawed group that calls for the reinstatement of the caliphate that was abolished in Turkey, was recently given a huge...

[OPINION] Turkey’s diaspora agency is building Erdoğan’s proxies abroad

Abdullah Bozkurt The recent appointment to the leadership of Turkey’s diaspora agency confirms the long-held view that the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is...

Latest news