One of the peculiarities of the Turkish people is they love collective action on the Internet.
As Islamist parties emerge victorious from Arab ballots, some are having second thoughts about the Arab Spring.
“I do not think I have ever met a Frenchman who was a liberal,” the late French literary critic Émile Faguet once ironically remarked.
Some commentators argue these days that the much-celebrated Arab Spring is turning out to be an 'Islamic Spring.'
Since 9/11, much ink has been spilled in the West over the troubles in the world of Islam. The problem was painfully obvious...
On Dec. 7, 1925, a cold winter day, a group of policemen knocked on the door of a modest house in Fatih, one of Istanbul’s oldest districts.
The first two countries of the Arab Spring, Tunisia and Egypt, recently had their first free and fair elections. In both, the winners turned out to be Islamist parties.
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, the official body that runs all Turkish mosques, has just realized its fifth Congress on Religious Publications.
Political observers who follow Turkish democracy often get confused with the contradictory phenomena they face.
