The Gulen Movement's Normalization Crisis
The February 7, 2013 and the December 17, 2013 plots (against the government) have shown to the politics and the society the possible cost to be incurred if the Gulen Movement maintain today the strategy they have adopted under the conditions of the Old Turkey.
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The AK Party and the Operation Against Political Legitimacy
Since the operational political engineering that the Gulen Movement has launched by leveraging its power within the bureaucracy corresponds to a developing new form of tutelary, it threatens democracy in Turkey.
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Democracy cannot flourish in Turkey if Gulen Movement's parallel structure is not dismantled.
Now in Egypt, there is a new Constitution before us which institutionalizes the Military-Judiciary-Police State and narrows the sphere of the civilian politics in the post-coup period, and paradoxically is dominated by completely secular, liberal and Naserist positions.
An agreement that included almost all of the terms in the recent deal had been signed among Turkey, Brazil and Iran in 2010.
Obstacles before establishing private schools that are sensitive to private and social diversity in real terms and that offer different education choices should be removed in Turkey. They should even be encouraged!
What does the West-Iran Rapprochement Take?
The West makes an effort to win Iran back because a controllable Iran is the most natural ally of the West in the region.
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Is Islam Being Banned in Angola?
The Angola issue will pave the way for discussions over Islamophobia again as its profound impacts are becoming more visible in the third world countries lately.
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Unless the US immediately broadens its perspective, there will be no guarantees that the new agreement with Iran will not suffer the same fate the Tehran agreement Turkey and Brazil achieved three years ago.
The most striking characteristic of the last five years is the Erdoğan momentum that has developed a constituent politics and created significant structural turning points when impasses occur.
For all these years, neither the Ikhwan changed the state nor did the state change the Ikhwan.
The debate we are having today is, in a way, the debate over whether the duty of guarding Sykes-Picot, despite the passage of a century, should be carried on or not.
Both Egyptian and Turkish armies have wielded disproportionate influence on the political course of their respective countries. Their roles were not confined to security sectors, as expected from an army in a democratic political sphere.
A combination of obligations and concerns will determine the scope of the possible intervention in Syria.
Gülşah Neslihan Akkaya: No official statement has been issued; however, Saudi Arabia and Qatar will clearly support the intervention as Saudi Arabia is the number one arms provider to the Syrian opposition.
The West still does not trust the political actors holding Islamic traditions in the Middle East, and it does not know how to interact with them effectively.
Ulutaş: On-going detentions and massacres in Egypt have shut the door for a political solution in the country.
One of the most severe pains of the 21st century will be the dissolution of the status quo in the Middle East which presented a luxurious world of geopolitics to the West and to those who kept guard of the regional order on behalf of the West throughout the 20th century.
