Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts

October 23, 2016

Khamenei’s representative says will not step in paradise if Gülen is there

A representative from the Iranian Mullah regime has voiced his dislike of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, saying that he will not even enter paradise if Gülen is there.

August 25, 2016

What Erdogan and Khomeini Have in Common

Alireza Nader

The Turkish president’s post-coup crackdowns are following in the footsteps of Iran’s Islamic revolution.

April 16, 2012

Turkey abroad that I (we) admire

Ekrem Dumanlı

Korea, Iran and China: These are the three countries that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has visited recently. I had the opportunity to closely follow these trips. The participant journalists have all said something. And there were also remarks and anecdotes that were not published or aired on TV. Let me describe some of these untouched moments from the trip because they suggest that there is a whole other Turkey abroad.

June 13, 2011

Islamic Liberalism -- The Challenges Facing the AKP

Ahmad Ali Khalid*

Muslim democrats and liberals are looking at the recent Turkish elections with a sense of anticipation and expectation.

Is the Justice and Development Party (AKP) now going to evolve further to extend its discourse of liberal democracy, human rights, economic liberalization and modernization couched within a certain cosmopolitan and pluralist Islamic ethos or has this great political experiment run its course?