Posted on Fri, June 21, 2013 at 16:16 pm CEST
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Christendom’s Greatest Cathedral to Become a Mosque

The ongoing Islamification of Turkey… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Christianism • Byzantine Empire • Christianity • Culture • Eastern Orthodox Church • Global Islam • History • Islamism • Neo-Ottomanism • Religion • Turkey 
Posted on Tue, February 19, 2013 at 00:35 am CET
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Turkey and Tehran: A Cold Peace

The Turkish-Iranian relationship is primed for problems due to differing geopolitical and sectarian interests… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Iran • Iraq • Syrian Revolution • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, February 17, 2013 at 16:03 pm CET
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The British Mandate for Palestine

The Mandate for Palestine was a legal commission for the administration of Palestine after the first World War… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Britain • Historical Documents • History • International Law • United Nations 
Posted on Mon, February 11, 2013 at 00:01 am CET
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Did the Armenian Genocide Inspire Hitler?

The massacre of the Ottoman Armenians helped persuade the Nazis to exterminate national minorities as well… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Semitism • Armenian Genocide • History • Holocaust • Jew-Hatred • Nazi Germany • Ottoman Empire • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, January 11, 2013 at 01:31 am CET
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Ankara’s Unacknowledged Genocide

The Ottoman Empire tolerated the existence of vast non-Muslim subject populations in its midst, provided they acknowledged their legal and institutional inferiority in the Islamic order of things. When these groups dared to question their subordinate status, they were brutally suppressed, and none more so than the Armenians… Continue reading

Topics: Armenian Genocide • History • Ottoman Empire • Religion • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, January 5, 2013 at 19:08 pm CET
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Islamic Supremacy Alive and Well in Ankara

Supersessionism refers to the belief that Christians have superseded Jews in a new covenant with God. Islam, too, sees itself as superseding all previous divine revelation but, unlike Christianity, Islam freely erases history itself… Continue reading

Topics: Armenian Genocide • Bulgaria • Christianity • Cyprus • Global Islam • Greece • History • Jewish Life • Neo-Ottomanism • Religion • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, December 9, 2012 at 21:57 pm CET
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Erdogan’s Volatile Authoritarianism: Tactical Ploy or Strategic Vision?

In recent months, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made a string of highly controversial public statements which appear indicative of an authoritarian mindset… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Neo-Ottomanism • Politics • Religion • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, July 11, 2012 at 19:47 pm CEST
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The Turkish Naval Base at the Dead Sea during World War I

The Dead Sea was a major supply route for the Turkish army between eastern and western Palestine during WWI… Continue reading

Topics: History • Israel • Ottoman Empire • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, July 5, 2012 at 21:52 pm CEST
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Why Were Antique German Weapons Found at the Dead Sea in Recent Months?

Last month Israeli newspapers reported on the discovery of a huge cache of guns, bullets, artillery shells and mines in the Dead Sea… Continue reading

Topics: Britain • Germany • History • Israel • Ottoman Empire • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, April 19, 2012 at 21:41 pm CEST
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Who Gets to be the Caliph?

Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading

Topics: Global Islam • History • Islamic Countries • Islamism • Ottoman Empire • Religion • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Wahhabism 
Posted on Tue, October 11, 2011 at 19:56 pm CEST
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Cyprus on the World Stage

Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change… Continue reading

Topics: Cyprus • Energy • Israel • Security and Defense • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 20:54 pm CEST
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President Sargsyan Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

Turkey has in all ways possible aborted the ratification and implementation of the protocols we initialed in 2009… Continue reading

Topics: Armenia • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 11:48 am CEST
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WikiLeaks: Turkish FM Davutoglu: “Yes, We are the New Ottomans”

Turkey is aspiring to broaden its horizons to include not just Europe but the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in its strategic… Continue reading

Topics: Neo-Ottomanism • The Middle East • Turkey • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Tue, July 12, 2011 at 01:53 am CEST
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The Mediterranean Sea and Its Relationship to Cyprus: A Study of a Mediterranean Island to the Ottoman Empire

The Mediterranean islands, particularly Cyprus, proved invaluable to the expansion for the Ottoman Empire… Continue reading

Topics: Byzantine Empire • Christianity • Cyprus • Eastern Orthodox Church • Global Islam • Jared Feldschreiber • Ottoman Empire • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, March 25, 2011 at 22:06 pm CET
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Arab revolts and Turkey’s new ‘old Kemalists’

The Arab revolts of 2011 awakened interest in the Turkish model, exemplifying an Islamist-rooted party building a liberal democracy… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Armenia • Democracy • Islamism • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, February 12, 2010 at 16:40 pm CET
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Turkey Shows its True Face

In the aftermath of the Gaza war the friendship between Turkey and Israel is declining more and more… Continue reading

Topics: Crethi Plethi • English • Europe • Global Islam • Israel • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, November 23, 2009 at 21:30 pm CET
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Big Lies: Demolishing the Myths of the Propaganda War against Israel (part 1)

Demolishing some lies and myths about the refugee problem… Continue reading

Topics: Arab-Israeli Conflict • Israel • Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • War of Independence