September 8, 2014

Is Islam more violent than any other faith?

Aydoğan Vatandaş

After the brutal atrocities of the "Islamic State" (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham), Don Lemon, CNN's well-known anchorman, assembled a discussion last week addressing the question “Is Islam more violent than any other faith?”

Al-Qadi troubles in Turkey-US ties

Abdullah Bozkurt

Senior officials at the US Department of Treasury including Secretary Jack Lew and Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen must be in the crosshairs of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his loyalist public prosecutors, who charged veteran Turkish police chiefs last week for investigating Yasin al-Qadi, who is listed by the US Treasury as a “specially designated global terrorist.”

You should give those documents to the court rather than the US

Adem Yavuz Arslan

In a previous column of mine, I wrote about how Turkey's Dec. 17 corruption scandal had been discussed in the US media in a piece titled "What if Dec. 17 happened in the US."

Gov't excludes a further 114 schools from incentive package

The Turkish government has removed an additional 114 private schools from the list of schools that are eligible for government incentives, saying that they were mistakenly included in the original list.