Monthly Archives: September 2012

Turkey’s powerful prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will be delivering a keynote speech at his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) convention on Sunday, 11 years after he first formed Turkey’s 39th party, in August 2001. His young party … Continue reading →

As the hajj season, the world’s largest annual gathering of Muslims, looms closer, devout Muslims worldwide have wrongly been billed by Saudi Arabia for something that has nothing to do with them, but rather they are suffering the consequences of … Continue reading →

Iran and its ally Syria, both countries knowledgeable on how to wage proxy battles using terrorist groups in other countries, are now revisiting their Turkish assets in terror portfolios they have been investing in for decades. It is a well … Continue reading →

The violent incidents and mass rallies over a provocative film, apparently made by hard-core Islamophobes in the US and featuring hate filled speech and insults that defame the Prophet of Islam, who is revered by some 1.5 billion Muslims around … Continue reading →

In May, I was in Berlin as part of the German government’s guest program to take a peek at the investigations into the neo-Nazi murders of 10 people, eight of them ethnic Turks. On the last day of our visit, … Continue reading →

It is not just the terror card that the overzealous mullah regime in Tehran has resorted to playing openly against Turkey; there is an undeclared economic war being waged by the Persians against Turkish interests, which ultimately aims to cut … Continue reading →

The return of Egypt to its well-deserved regional role after a brief hiatus amid revolutionary changes that have taken place in this most populous Arab country in the Middle East is certainly a welcome development that is now being hailed … Continue reading →

It was another night on the grueling campaign trail, a few months before the June 12 national elections last year. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, an academic-turned-diplomat and politician, was working hard to convince voters in his home province of Konya … Continue reading →