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Aleppo’s liberation forces Turkey to accept al-Asad in power

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Ula' 04, 14382017-02-01

Turkey’s stubborn President Recep Tayip Erdogan has been forced to change his stand on Syria and has stopped the ludicrous demand that President Asad must go.

News & Analysis

Turkey’s post-coup crackdown targets Muslim opposition

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Awwal 01, 14382016-12-01

Under the guise of weeding out members of the Gulenist cult from various state institutions, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has embarked upon the wholesale arrest of committed Muslims.

Main Stories

Coup-stricken Erdogan rethinks friends and foes

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 29, 14372016-09-01

July’s failed coup attempt in Turkey has exposed more than the coup plotters. Turkish President Recept Tayip Erdogan has realized that Western rulers and Nato members are not his real friends. Russia and Iran are.

News & Analysis

US strikes Turkey through the Gulenist cult

Ahmet Aslan

Shawwal 27, 14372016-08-01

Ample proof has emerged of the Gulenist cult, backed by the US, in trying to engineer the coup in Turkey. This attempt may have failed but another one cannot be discounted.

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News & Analysis

What Davutoglu’s expulsion means for the AKP

Ahmet Aslan

Sha'ban 25, 14372016-06-01

Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan is ruthlessly ambitious. He is prepared to crush anyone that gets in his way to grab more power. The latest victim is his long-time associate Ahmet Davutoglu.

News & Analysis

Turkey to reconcile with Zionist Israel

Ahmet Aslan

Rajab 24, 14372016-05-01

Recep Tayip Erdogan has had to eat crow and is trying to ingratiate himself to the Zionists once again as he continues with his destructive policy of destabilizing the Muslim East undermining Islamic self-determination.

News & Analysis

Desperate Turkey turns toward Iran

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 23, 14372016-04-01

Confronted by total failure in Syria and after years of strained relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey is now seeking better relations with Tehran. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s visit last month confirms this policy shift.

News & Analysis

Erdogan compounds dilemma in Syria

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Ula' 21, 14372016-03-01

By his ill-conceived policies, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erogan has brought the war on Syria into his own country. The Turks will pay a heavy price for such foolishness, not to mention illegality.

Special Reports

The AKP’s reckless foreign policies

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Awwal 20, 14372016-01-01

Turkey has moved from zero-problem to zero-friendship policy with its neighbors. The only exception is the Zionist regime in Occupied Palestine that had murdered 10 Turkish citizens aboard the Mavi Marmara in May 2010 but it seems all is forgiven now!

News & Analysis

Erdogan’s manipulative tactics bring victory

Ahmet Aslan

Safar 19, 14372015-12-01

Nobody had anticipated the landslide victory that the Justice and Development Party (AKP) secured in last month’s snap elections in Turkey. Even the most optimistic opinion polls showed the AKP barely coming close (not reaching) a majority in parliament to form the government.

News & Analysis

Russia changes equation in the Syrian conflict

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Hijjah 17, 14362015-10-01

Russian President Vladimir Putin has served notice that he will not accept the Western engineered war on Syria to overthrow President Bashar al Asad. He has started bombing Western-backed terrorists creating panic in Western capitals...

News & Analysis

Erdogan tries to scare Turks into voting for AKP

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 17, 14362015-09-01

The AKP-led Turkish government’s fragile peace with the Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has come to an end and revived horrific memories of the past. Since 2009, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had pressed hard to end the ongoing violence in southeastern Turkey. The government’s determined peace negotiations with the PKK initially yielded results and an agree-ment to end the bloody conflict seemed imminent.

News & Analysis

Gloomy prospects for AKP after elections

Ahmet Aslan

Ramadan 14, 14362015-07-01

The AKP has suffered a serious setback in last month’s elections and its hold on power is no longer assured.

News & Analysis

AKP to face first test “without Erdogan”

Ahmet Aslan

Sha'ban 14, 14362015-06-01

Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has alienated many Turks by his extravagant lifestyle and massive corruption of his family and cronies. The June 7 election will prove an important test for his hold on power.

News & Analysis

Opportunist Erdogan backpedals on Yemen

Ahmet Aslan

Rajab 12, 14362015-05-01

Before his visit, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan lashed out at Iran for its alleged meddling in Yemen. Once in Tehran and having witnessed the trade opportunities, Erdogan’s tune changed showing his opportunistic side.

Daily News Analysis

Erdogan’s one-man rule creates rift in AKP

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 12, 14362015-04-01

The Turkish constitution does not allow the president to interfere in the day-to-day running of the country but Recep Tayip Erdogan thinks he is special. His constant interference in government operations has caused deep rifts in the ruling AKP.

News & Analysis

UK asks Muslims to pay price for Hebdo attacks

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Thani 11, 14362015-02-01

Instead of acknowledging its own role in supporting takfiri terrorists that were unleashed in Syria, the British government is blaming Muslims for their emergence. As Baronnes Warsi said, Muslims will speak out when they know they will be heard.

News & Analysis

Furious Erdogan hits at the Gulenists

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Awwal 10, 14362015-01-01

The imperialist and Zionist-linked Gulenist movement and its supporters are being weeded out from key institutions in Turkey.

News & Analysis

Turkey-Iran relations plummet after Erdogan’s outburst

Ahmet Aslan

Safar 08, 14362014-12-01

Unable to get out of the hole he has dug for himself in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has started thrashing about violently. His recent outbursts have deepened tensions with Islamic Iran.

News & Analysis

Kobani’s resistance deflates Turkish imperial ambitions

Ahmet Aslan

Muharram 08, 14362014-11-01

Resistance by the Kurds in Kobani has undermined Turkey’s imperial ambitions. Ankara thought the ISIS terrorists would defeat the Kurds leading to the weakening of the other Kurdish group, the PKK.

News & Analysis

Turkey’s 101-day ordeal with the takfiris

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Hijjah 06, 14352014-10-01

There is something bizarre in the manner in which 49 Turkish diplomats and employees of the Turkish Consulate in Mosul were released from the clutches of the takfiris.

News & Analysis

Hersh, Saudis and the chemical attack on Syria

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 12, 14362014-05-01

The veteran US journalist, Seymour Hersh has laid to rest one lie—that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in al-Ghouta last August—but has left unsaid the role of Saudi Arabia in this dastardly crime.

News & Analysis

Political war escalates amid local elections in Turkey

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 01, 14352014-04-01

The political scandals that preceded the March 30 local elections were meant to damage the prospects of AKP. The Gulenists and their agents in various institutions abused their positions to undermine the ruling party but with little success, it seems.

News & Analysis

Islamophobia is not “freedom of speech”

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Thani 29, 14352014-03-01

Islamophobes always invoke the “freedom of speech” argument to peddle their racist ideology. This nasty campaign has also been joined by opportunist Muslims that want to ingratiate themselves to the white master to advance their political career.

News & Analysis

Erdogan’s political future hinges on local elections

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Thani 01, 14352014-02-01

Local elections slated for end of March will be an important test for Prime Minister Recept Tayip Erdogan and his AKP party to see whether he can weather the Gulenist-led scandals that have gripped Turkey.

News & Analysis

AKP, Gulen movement in “mother of all battles”

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Awwal 01, 14352014-01-02

The “corruption scandal” in Turkey is not so much about corruption per se as it is about power struggle between the ruling AKP and the Gulenists that are working in tandem with the CIA and Zionist Israel.

News & Analysis

Turkey’s return to “zero problem” policy

Ahmet Aslan

Muharram 27, 14352013-12-01

Let by unrealistic expectations of reviving the Ottoman legacy, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan chewed more than he could swallow in Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. After repeated failures, Ankara has embarked on a course correction, one hopes, in sincerity.

News & Analysis

Pledge to end sectarian violence in Pakistan

Ahmet Aslan

Muharram 27, 14352013-12-01

Pakistan has been gripped by sectarian violence for decades but in recent times, it has become more vicious. Committed Muslims, representing “Shi’is” and “Sunnis” from many parts of the world gathered in Turkey to work toward ending this unnecessary conflict in the Ummah.

News & Analysis

Turkish spymaster irks the Zionists

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Hijjah 27, 14342013-11-01

The Zionists are furious; their agents in Iran were arrested and they blaming the Turkish intelligence chief who refuses to toe the US or Zionist line, unlike his predecessors.

Main Stories

Turkey involved in the Syrian chemical attack?

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 25, 14342013-10-01

Commentators in Turkey are pointing the finger at the Turkish government of Recep Tayip Erdogan of being involved in the Syrian chemical attack in order to force the US’ hand. What is the truth?

News & Analysis

Turkish dilemma after Mursi’s fall

Ahmet Aslan

Ramadan 23, 14342013-08-01

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan faces an acute dilemma now that President Mursi has been overthrown in a military coup. Erdogan had set up an alliance together with Qatar to act as policemen in the region. The alliance is now in tatters.

News & Analysis

Taksim protests expose Turkey’s “role model” claim

Ahmet Aslan

Sha'ban 22, 14342013-07-01

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s heavy-handed response to Taksim Square protesters has exposed his intolerant streak. Turkey’s claim to being a “role model” for other Muslims has become untenable.

News & Analysis

On Syria, Erdogan returns empty-handed from US

Ahmet Aslan

Rajab 22, 14342013-06-01

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had hoped during his Washington visit to convince US President Barack Obama to militarily get involved in Syria. The American president did not buy Erdogan’s allegations against Damascus forcing the new pasha to return empty-handed.

News & Analysis

Anatomy of Turkish-Israeli rapprochement: when apology replaces justice

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 20, 14342013-05-01

Turkey’s embrace of Zionist Israel has a lot more to do with regional politics that the cryptic apology offered by Benjamin Netanyahu, with ass-like stubbornness.

Main Stories

Bulgaria-Israel in EU plot against Hizbullah

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Ula' 20, 14342013-04-01

Under Zionist pressure, the corrupt Bulgarian regime is trying to implicate Hizbullah in the bus bombing of last July in order to ban it in the European Union. The Europeans are not buying it.

News & Analysis

Erdogan’s former deputy reveals AKP duplicity

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Awwal 20, 14342013-02-01

After two years of bloody conflict it seems Turkey’s position on the Syrian conflict has not changed. While addressing a gathering in the city of Gaziantep last month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan fired another rhetorical volley at the Syrian government.

Main Stories

Channel 4 documentary exposes British media’s anti-Islam hatred

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 14, 14332012-10-01

Fake historian distorts history to attack Islam in the most scandalous way and Britain’s channel 4 provides him air time. Islamophobia is now official policy in much of the western world.

News & Analysis

Turkey’s hopes fade as rebels fail in Syria

Ahmet Aslan

Shawwal 14, 14332012-09-01

Turkish rulers seem to have miscalculated badly about events in Syria but there is little proof they are about to admit the error and make course correction.

News & Analysis

Turkey’s AKP searching for Erdogan successor

Ahmet Aslan

Ramadan 12, 14332012-08-01

As leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dominated Turkish politics for many years.

News & Analysis

Israeli soldiers involved in Mavi Marmara attack to be tried in Turkish Court

Ahmet Aslan

Sha'ban 11, 14332012-07-01

When Israeli soldiers savagely attacked the Mavi Marmara, the flagship of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 30, 2010, they shot and killed nine Turkish activists; 60 others were wounded.

News & Analysis

Tareq al-Hashemi: victim or master manipulator?

Ahmet Aslan

Rajab 11, 14332012-06-01

News & Analysis

Palestinians struggle in the shadow of Syrian uprising

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Ula' 09, 14332012-04-01

The uneasy peace that had descended on Gaza after the bloody Israeli onslaught of December 2008–January 2009, code-named Operation Cast Lead, ended on March 9 when Israel launched an air strike against Zuhair al-Qaissi, Head of the Popular Resistance Committees group.

News & Analysis

From “zero problems to zero friends”: Turkey’s regional dilemmas

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Thani 08, 14332012-03-01

Merely a year ago Turkey enjoyed much respect among neighbors and established warm and cordial relations with them, helping to catapult Ankara’s political, economic and cultural objectives. Frequent visits to neighboring countries by Turkish delegations, usually accompanied by senior government officials including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, signing memorandums of understanding and agreements, increasing trade and political as well as military cooperation, heralded a new era for the conflict-torn region.

Main Stories

Growing tension with Iran fractures US-Israel alliance

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Awwal 09, 14332012-02-01

The shrill US-Israeli war rhetoric against Iran goes hand in glove with covert operations, such as the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, Stuxnet Virus to disrupt Iran’s uranium enrichment and also reportedly replacing street signs and bricks in buildings with ones equipped with radiation detectors. There are threats and actions to further isolate Iran by boycotting its oil to increase the economic and political pressure on the Islamic Republic.

Main Stories

Capturing the spy drone foils US war rhetoric on Iran

Ahmet Aslan

Safar 07, 14332012-01-01

One of the most striking events in post-Revolutionary Iranian history unfolded in early December 2011 when Iranian state TV showed a captured RQ-170 Sentinel, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the US for spying. It is one of the most sophisticated planes in the US arsenal and had been kept largely hidden from public eye in order to not risk its top secret spy missions.

News & Analysis

Political prisoners in the West-backed Saudi Kingdom

Ahmet Aslan

Muharram 06, 14332011-12-01

Although not given much publicity in the Western media, Saudi Arabia has been brutally suppressing political dissidents. The monarchy does not allow any form of criticism and has instituted harsh measures to silence any critical voices. As a result of this many human rights activists, bloggers, reformists, academics and religious leaders have been detained by Saudi security forces.

Special Reports

“Strategic depth” or strategic domination: deciphering Turkey’s policy on Syria and Iran

Ahmet Aslan

Muharram 06, 14332011-12-01

Since January 2011, Syrian streets have been hit by a protest demanding removal of the Ba‘th regime and Bashar al-Asad from power. A growing armed insurgency and other developments, which took place in November, showed that the situation is getting out of control, dragging the country into a bloody civil war.

News & Analysis

Malaysia’s draconian laws used to suppress opponents

Ahmet Aslan

Shawwal 03, 14322011-09-01

The Islamic awakening sweeping the Muslim East has affected many parts of the world. Malaysia may not be the most likely place to experience revolutionary change of Middle Eastern proportions, but it nonetheless has not remained unaffected.

Special Reports

“Arab Spring” diminishes Turkey’s credibility in the Muslim World

Ahmet Aslan

Shawwal 03, 14322011-09-01

Soon after the so-called Arab Spring began to blossom, Turkey’s popularity has been on the rise in the Arab world. Since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was first elected in 2002, Turkey with its flourishing democracy, and rapidly growing economic and military might has become an emerging regional power.

News & Analysis

Implications of AKP’s third major victory in Turkey

Ahmet Aslan

Rajab 29, 14322011-07-01

When voting ended on the night of June 12, most people in Turkey did not have to wait for official results of the general elections. Turkish and foreign experts had already anticipated that Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would win a third consecutive victory. A few hours later when early results came in, a landslide victory was confirmed for the AKP.

News & Analysis

Political tensions rise prior to elections in Turkey

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 28, 14322011-06-01

Returning from the northwestern Black Sea city of Kastamonu, Prime Minister Recep Erdogan’s convoy was attacked on May 4. As part of his election campaign Erdogan had visited the city to address its residents urging them to vote for his Justice and Development Party (AKP). He then flew by helicopter to a nearby city to continue his campaign, while his election convoy, including his campaign bus from which he usually delivers speeches and greets the people, was returning to the AKP headquarters in Ankara. When Erdogan’s campaign bus was 25 km from the city centre, around the Ilgaz Mountains, a sudden burst of machinegun fire targeted the police car escorting the convoy. After the initial shots, the attackers came closer to the police car and threw a grenade which set the car on fire, injuring one police officer and killing another in the vehicle. After a brief exchange of gunfire with the prime minister’s bodyguards, the attackers fled the scene without suffering any casualties.

News & Analysis

Old guard’s disruptive tactics prior to elections in Turkey

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Ula' 27, 14322011-05-01

Preparations for the forthcoming elections have brought an early spring to Turkish politics. In April, Turkish political parties launched their campaigns for general elections scheduled for June 12. Early poll results predict a landslide victory for the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP).

News & Analysis

ShamGen paves the way for Muslim unity

Ahmet Aslan

Rabi' al-Thani 27, 14322011-04-01

In recent years rapid rapprochement has occurred between Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq. The US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) political triumph in Turkey, and Bashar Assad’s succession of his father, were a series of events that brought these countries together.

News & Analysis

“Mentor” of political Islam dies in Turkey

Ahmet Aslan

Rajab 29, 14322011-04-01

While Muslims in the Islamic East and North Africa were going through great turmoil, in February, the Muslims of Turkey lost one of their greatest leaders. Professor Necmeddin Erbakan had been in hospital since early January for various problems and he finally died on February 27 of cardiac and respiratory failure at the age of 85.

Special Reports

Is Turkey’s experiment sustainable over the long term?

Ahmet Aslan

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

The most important reason for the failure of Turkish Islamic intellectuals may be their detachment from their past/traditions, especially valuable Islamic knowledge of the Ottoman seminaries.

News & Analysis

Will Muslim victims of the Gujarat massacre ever see justice?

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

“The mob then took him out on the road and killed him. Before that they removed his clothes and cut-off his hands and legs,” said Zakia Jafri before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on October 23, 2010. She was describing the brutal killing of her husband, former Congress Party MP, Ehsan Jafri.

News & Analysis

Egregious assault on human rights in the US

Ahmet Aslan

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

A Palestinian-American, Ghassan Elashi was one of the founders and then chairman of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF)

News & Analysis

Hopeful changes on the Turkish political landscape

Ahmet Aslan

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

There was a crucial National Security Council meeting due to take place in Ankara that day. When he was informed about the incident, Mr. He collected some of the fragments while listening to testimonies from people in the mosque

News & Analysis

German Muslims continue to suffer from post 9/11 trauma

Ahmet Aslan

Ramadan 22, 14312010-09-01

Germany has a notorious reputation for its racist and discriminatory attitude toward minorities. It has refused to accommodate a large minority community that has lived in Germany for generations.

Background

Closer look at AKP after its eight-year rule in Turkey

Ahmet Aslan

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14312010-06-01

In order to get a balanced view of the nature of the AKP agenda, one should understand the dynamics of the movement in light of its eight-year performance in both domestic and foreign policies.

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