Turkey: The New Model?
NOVANEWS By: Ömer Taşpınar Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter written by Ömer Taşpınar from the book, The Islamists Are Coming: Who They Really Are, co-published by the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace. […]
Category: Turkey
Two Forms of Lethal Polarization: Egypt and Turkey
NOVANEWS There is a temptation to suggest that political life in Turkey and Egypt are both being victimized by a similar deepening of polarization between Islamic and secular orientations, and to some extent this […]
Istanbul Dispatch
NOVANEWS by JASON HIRTHLER It was Karl Marx, in his essay on the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, who said, “They must not represent themselves; they must be represented.” Marx was writing about Louis Napoleon […]
Yabancı Basında Çıkan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Karikatürleri
NOVANEWS Cihan Durgun Gezi eylemleri sırasında karikatüristler ve grafik tasarımcıları yaptıkları çalışmalarla eylemlere orantısız zeka çalışmalarıyla destek vermişlerdi. Bunların yanı sıra bir de sokaklarda duvar yazılarıyla orantısız zekaya destek verenler bulunuyordu. Bu süreç yabancı basının da uzun süre ilgi […]
Kurds protest against wall along Turkey's border with Syria
NOVANEWS BY DAREN BUTLER 1 OF 2. Riot police use tear gas to disperse pro-Kurdish demonstrators during a protest in the southeastern Turkish town of Nusaybin, on the Turkish-Syrian border, November 7, 2013. (Reuters) – Thousands of […]
Palestinian issue and Turkish viewpoint
NOVANEWS In my opinion, if we want to understand Erdogan’s words clearly, firstly, we should understand the parameters of Turkish foreign policy. By İsmail Duman, World Bulletin “ ‘We are confronting a human tragedy, and […]
Turks in Greece denied right to speak Turkish
Turks native to western Thrace in Greece are being told that they cannot speak Turkish. World Bulletin / News Desk To commemorate 90 years since the Treaty of Lausanne, Muslim Turks in western Thrace, Greece, held […]
The Ottomans smelt petrol in Istanbul
According to the Ottoman Archives, during the Ottoman era petrol was discovered in Istanbul, but due to being found in a residential area, permission to explore was denied. World Bulletin / News Desk A […]
Western propaganda against Sultan Abdulhamid II
NOVANEWS During Abdulhamid II’s 33-year reign as the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he was called names like ‘oppressor’, ‘tyrant’ and ‘dictator’ by the likes of French historian Albert Vandal and English prime minister William […]
Syria, Egypt Reveal Erdogan’s Hidden “Neo-Ottoman Agenda”
NOVANEWS By Nicola Nasser Global Research The eruption of the Syrian conflict early in 2011 heralded the demise of Turkey ’s officially pronounced strategy of “Zero Problems with Neighbors,” but more importantly, it revealed a “hidden […]