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BURAK BEKDİL

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Living by the ‘de jure’ sword

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Islamists often – but not always – come in two flavors: Those who would decapitate an infidel...

18 Comment(s) 5/24/2013

Turkish soft power: More soft than powerful

BURAK BEKDİL writes:

Ishaan Tharoor wrote in the Time magazine: “Two years later [today], Turkey’s vaunted soft power...

22 Comment(s) 5/22/2013

Family business (II)

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Could Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu be thinking that...

22 Comment(s) 5/17/2013

Family business (I)

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Press reports say that the nine Turkish suspects held by the police have confessed to the twin bombings...

10 Comment(s) 5/15/2013

The days of the Quraysh feud – revisited 14 centuries later

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The Russian media and some peace activists in Syria claim that chemical weapons now in the hands...

25 Comment(s) 5/10/2013

Istanbul 2020

BURAK BEKDİL writes:

Istanbul, Turkey’s unofficial capital, has failed in its four previous bids to host the Olympic Games.

24 Comment(s) 5/8/2013

The Turkish destiny

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“This is the beginning of a long way, of walking together, hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder.”

33 Comment(s) 5/3/2013

‘We have to apologize to the Armenians’

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After the publication of the powerful op-ed piece “We have to apologize to the Armenians” ...

35 Comment(s) 5/1/2013

Violence in Islam: The heart of the matter

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The often apologetic propagandists who discreetly adhere to various shades of Islamism tend...

32 Comment(s) 4/26/2013

Say has been sentenced: We are awfully shocked! (Part II)

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In a way, pianist and convicted atheist Fazıl Say is just further collateral damage in Turkey’s...

13 Comment(s) 4/24/2013

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