Turkey - Muslims and Liberals https://afterclash.com/tag/turkey/ Current Affairs Today - Latest Current Affairs Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:06:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://afterclash.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/community-symbol-150x150.png Turkey - Muslims and Liberals https://afterclash.com/tag/turkey/ 32 32 Kurdish fiasco ‘America first’ cause https://afterclash.com/kurdish-fiasco-america-first-cause/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kurdish-fiasco-america-first-cause https://afterclash.com/kurdish-fiasco-america-first-cause/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:51:20 +0000 http://muslimjourney.com/?p=1719 WHEN PATRICK HENRY vowed to “live free or die,” he couldn’t have known about today’s Kurdish dilemma in Iraq. Two weeks ago 92 percent of Kurdish voters in northern Iraq voted in a referendum to create an independent state, consisting of the three Iraqi provinces where they’re in a majority. Unfortunately for them, the outcome...

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Turks, EU: Never the twain meet? https://afterclash.com/turks-eu-never-the-twin-shall-meet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turks-eu-never-the-twin-shall-meet https://afterclash.com/turks-eu-never-the-twin-shall-meet/#respond Wed, 17 May 2017 23:24:40 +0000 http://muslimjourney.com/?p=1698 IS TURKEY FINALLY waking up from its dream of joining the European Union? During the past six weeks EU politicians excoriated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his victory in a Turkish constitutional referendum, which transforms the country’s parliamentary system into a presidential one, concentrating wide powers in the presidency. The constitutional changes go into effect after the...

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Did CIA try to bump off Erdogan? https://afterclash.com/did-cia-try-to-bump-off-erdogan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=did-cia-try-to-bump-off-erdogan https://afterclash.com/did-cia-try-to-bump-off-erdogan/#respond Sat, 13 Aug 2016 03:20:37 +0000 http://muslimjourney.com/?p=1650 RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN has upped the ante in his row with the Obama administration, which has heated up since last month’s failed coup in Turkey. The Turkish president now has jumped onto the lap of America’s geopolitical rival, Vladimir Putin. Erdogan’s meeting Tuesday with his Russian counterpart in a czarist palace outside St. Petersburg has opened...

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Erdogan’s hello to Egyptians https://afterclash.com/erdogans-hello-to-egyptians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=erdogans-hello-to-egyptians https://afterclash.com/erdogans-hello-to-egyptians/#respond Sun, 17 Jul 2016 01:22:04 +0000 http://muslimjourney.com/?p=1643 THAT WAS A second in Turkish history. Democratic forces, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, overwhelmed Turkish military units that had attempted to overthrow the country’s democratically elected government. It was a spectacular triumph for Erdogan, and more to the point, the democratic fervor and aspirations of the Turkish masses. The first time Erdogan and...

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Hijab and Muslim women https://afterclash.com/muslim-womens-hijab-often-proclaims-pride-identity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=muslim-womens-hijab-often-proclaims-pride-identity https://afterclash.com/muslim-womens-hijab-often-proclaims-pride-identity/#respond Fri, 08 Jan 2016 01:29:51 +0000 http://muslimjourney.com/?p=1604 Muslim women’s headgear, or hijab, is “a symbol of a dangerous purity culture” among people “obsessed with honor and virginity.” I realize that Asra Nomani, who made this comment, has acquired an Islamophobic prejudice about hijab.  Many Westerners, especially Islam-baiters, say that the hijab is imposed by bigoted Muslim men on unwilling women. Ms. Nomani was...

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