A recent debate over the TV series “Ayrılık,” which caused a diplomatic row between Turkey and Israel, reminded me of “Midnight Express.” Before this diplomatic crisis, I did not...
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On the one hand we have Turks who do not remember anything, and on the other are Armenians who live as if the events of 1915 happened just 15...
Massacres of Armenians were orchestrated and organized by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) — which came to power through a military coup — while the Ottoman Empire...
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On Sept. 11, Armenian massacres, butterflies, the caliphate and the EU
If Turkey can recover its memory, if Turkey maintains peace with its Muslim identity on the one hand and its long history with Christians on the other, I believe...
A few days ago, I had a strange moment of “enlightenment” that I would like to share with you. All of a sudden, I realized that I have never...
“We don’t have to be tolerant all the time.” While reading this statement I had an interesting flashback. I remembered the entrance of an interesting nightclub in London. I...
However, the Bush administration argued that Guantanamo was foreign soil; therefore, US courts would have “no jurisdiction where the US was not sovereign.” Hence the government concluded that those...
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The ugly truth about the Kurdish question – the Armenian question!?
If we could discuss the Armenian question openly, if we could confront the Armenian tragedy, there would not have been a Kurdish question. We are far from understanding the...
There was interesting news coverage by Afrika last week concerning Maj. Esat Oktay Yıldıran, who served in Cyprus before becoming the commander of Diyarbakır Prison. From the Ergenekon file,...
Moreover, the president suspended the military commission proceedings in Guantanamo and argued that instead of military commissions, he would prefer federal courts or the military justice system prosecute detainees...