The EU's systematic search to keep Turkey outside is shrinking Europe and putting the European Union project into a crisis

We should counter both the root causes of violent extremism and Western prejudice of Muslim communities

The proposals from the opposition parties rest on the premise that something extraordinary is happening in the country today. But their argument is fatally flawed because the AK Party can score more points off extraordinary circumstances than the opposition.

Dr. Farid Hafez from the University of Salzburg and Dr. Enes Bayraklı from SETA analyze Islamophobia in Europe vis-a-vis their new annual report, 'European Islamophobia Report 2015'

A recent report by SETA puts forth a detailed profile of steeply rising Islamophobic incidents in 25 European countries as terrorism and Islamophobia trigger each other

The UNAOC initiative represented a perfect example of Turkey's proactive, multilateral diplomacy based on building international alliances around common principles and inclusiveness, contributing to innovative peace building through dialogue

Europe proved to be extremely ineffective and inefficient in dealing with the refugee crises, and to not perpetuate its mistakes it needs to adopt a new security framework to deal with the increasing threat of terrorism

The perspective of European countries on human rights and autocratic regimes in the Middle East needs to take a more humanitarian form so as to end the ongoing civil wars.

“The choice of a far right partner for the coalition gave a signal that Syriza is not interested in compromise,” Dr. Griogriadis said.

In order for Islam to bring peace to humanity, it is vital for Muslims to create a new definition of ‘universal’ and avoid corrupting the religion’s universal message.

PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, or Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes, in German) finds a cover for rightist extremist racism in Germany and reaches out to masses through this cover.

The Paris attack seems like a strategic strike aimed to sharpen the existing polarization both in France and Europe in general.

While PEGIDA marches continue, thousands of people have repeatedly gathered for counter-rallies to protest PEGIDA.

For the first time in history, a Turkish leader has gone to Germany to hold election rallies and address a Turkish audience.

A far-right party, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), owes its post-1980 existence to a great extent to the Kurdish issue and the terrorist acts of the PKK.

The decision by the Turkish Constitutional Court to reject the closure case against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) opens a new chapter in the history of Turkish democracy.

Current developments and recent social and cultural transformations under the forces of globalization indicate that the prophecy of traditional secularization thesis seems to have failed to capture the ongoing influence of religion. Proponents of secularization thesis established an unavoidable and casual connection between the beginning of modernity and the decline of traditional forms of religious life. Generally speaking theorists of secularization process argued that religion would lose its influence on social and political life once the society absorbs the values and institutions of modernization. For B. Wilson for example “secularization relates to the diminution in the social significance of religion”. L. Shiner on the other hand, argued that the culmination of secularization would be religionless society.