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Daily News Analysis

Was Dissident Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Murdered in Saudi Istanbul Consulate?

Crescent International

Muharram 27, 14402018-10-07

The dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2. This has raised fears that he was murdered at the consulate.

Features

The nature and objectives of intellectual work in the contemporary Islamic movement

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 06, 14201999-10-16

In March 1924, when Mustafa Kemal abolished the khilafah in Turkey, it evoked three distinct responses from Muslims globally. In India under British colonial rule, with a substantial Muslim population, there was great anger...

World

Democracy, a parliament and a woman in hijab...

Mansoor Akbar Kundi

Jumada' al-Akhirah 06, 14201999-09-16

Sister Safa Merve Kavakci’s hijab battle dominated the political debate in Turkey about the functioning of democratic norms and secularism until it was buried by the August earthquake. While the secular Kemalist government got egg on its face for its poor handling of the rescue efforts, the hijab issue is still being debated.

Editorials

Choices facing Turkey’s Islamic movement

Editor

Rabi' al-Thani 19, 14201999-08-01

The Kemalists’ crusade against the Islamic movement is becoming more vicious. Last month there was another assault when an issue of the Selam Islamic weekly was confiscated.

World

Turkey’s secular fundamentalists target woman over hijab

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 30, 14201999-05-16

Merve Kavakci, elected to Turkish parliament from Istanbul as a Fazilat (Virtue) Party candidate in the April 18 election, appears at first sight quite unassuming, even a little shy. But beneath that gentle exterior is a young Muslimah of steely nerves.

World

Turkey’s Islamists lose ground as voters reject diluted Islam

Our Own Correspondent

Muharram 15, 14201999-05-01

Turkey’s Islamist Fazilat party suffered a disappointing result in the country’s parliamentary elections on April 18. The largest party in the old Parliament, they hoped to increase their largest-single party status by increasing the number of seats they won.

World

Turkey’s ‘Islamists’ under pressure as elections loom

Crescent International

Dhu al-Hijjah 14, 14191999-04-01

The controversy over the arrest of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, and the subsequent backlash from Kurds inside and outside Turkey, have tended to overshadow the fact that Islam remains the Turkish secular establishment’s greatest fear.

Special Reports

Western ‘collectors’ fuel illegal antiquities trade in Turkey

Yusuf Progler

Ramadan 28, 14191999-01-16

To casual observers, the Turkish tourist industry may appear to be somewhat harmless and only superficially damaging to Islamic culture in Turkey. But this is facile and misleading. Tourism brings with it more insidious, and clearly damaging, trends

Special Reports

Tourism in Turkey caters to western phantasms of ‘the Orient’

Yusuf Progler

Sha'ban 27, 14191998-12-16

Istanbul, once a magnificent city of Islamic civilization, known to Muslims of another age as Jannatu dunya (paradise on earth), is today laid open for inspection by the prying eyes of western tourists.

World

Turkish secularists get nasty

Crescent International

Muharram 04, 14191998-05-01

Receb Tayyob Erdogan, the ‘Islamist’ mayor of Istanbul, was sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment on April 21 after being convicted of inciting ‘hatred based on religious differences’ by a special security court sitting in Diyarbakir.

World

Turkish youth win hijab battle

Iqbal Siddiqui

Safar 21, 14191998-03-16

The banning of Refah, Turkey’s ‘Islamic’ political party, was formalized on February 22, when the Constitutional Court’s full verdict was published.

World

Turkey’s Islamic movement at crossroads

Crescent International

Shawwal 19, 14181998-02-16

Three weeks after Turkey’s constitutional court announced its decision to ban the Refah Party and Necmettin Erbakan for being too Islamic, publication of the verdict and its reasons in the official gazette are still awaited.

World

Harsh jail terms for Islamic activists

Iqbal Siddiqui

Jumada' al-Akhirah 30, 14181997-11-01

Two senior Islamic activists in Turkey were given long jail sentences by an Ankara state security court on October 15, on trumped up charges. Nuruddin Sirin, editor of the Islamic daily Selam, was jailed for 17-and-a-half years, and Bekir Yildiz, a former mayor of Ankara’s Sincan district...

World

Turkish secularism a front for army and tool of US power in the Mediterranean

Mahmoud Ahmed Shaikh

Rabi' al-Awwal 27, 14181997-08-01

Mesut Yilmaz’s vote of confidence (281 to 256) in the Turkish parliament on July 12 was marred by brawls and fist-fights. He described his elevation to the premier’s post as a return to ‘traditional Turkish politics.’ Indeed!

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