France’s desperate endeavors to design a ‘French Islam’
Policies of ‘organizing’, ‘controlling’ and ‘modernizing’ Islam stem from the old colonial discourse that promotes the domestication of the ‘good Arab’
More
Islamophobes contemplate a civil war in France
The escalating violence in French media continues to worsen every day. I am surprised that my fellow citizens are encouraging a possible civil war in France with calmness and serenity, as if it were a normal scenario we should anticipate in the short or long term.
More
President Erdogan: “There are many things that we can contribute to the European Union. They may have things to contribute to us but what should be done is, I suppose, to consult with 81 million people [in Turkey] and see what they will decide.”
The normalization of Turkey-EU relations is a development that inspires hope, even as global concerns such as migration, populism, the trade war, security threats and so on grow more intense
Turkey and Germany need each other more than ever to address and manage common threats such as trade wars, migration issues and security strategies, to name but a few pressing issues
By making this new proposal, Macron's goal is to prevent Russian pressure on Europe and keep Turkey in the EU's corner without granting the Turks full membership
US administration drives Turkey closer to Russia, EU
The U.S. administration's anti-Turkey actions have led Ankara to simultaneously end its disagreements with EU countries and deepen its strategic partnership with Moscow
More
The evangelical burden and the destructiveness of threats
Last week, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan traveled to South Africa to attend the 2018 BRICS summit along with a group of journalists, including myself.
More
It seems that Western unity has slowly shattered over the last decade with most Western or Western-dominated international organizations starting to splinter.
Dieser Bericht ist als Teil des englischsprachigen European Islamophobia Report entstanden. Der Österreichische Islamophobie-Bericht 2017 bildet dabei den Länderbericht für Österreich ab. Ziel dieses Berichtes ist es, die Entwicklung und den Status Quo von Islamophobie im jeweiligen Kalenderjahr aufzuzeigen.
European states have established an anti-Erdoğan and anti-AK Party international coalition in the run up to the June 24 elections
The so-called 'fight against radicalization' seen in Austria and across Europe in general, only encourages discrimination and alienates Muslims from society through a far more destructive form of radicalism
The return of Syrians to Syria should be a combined international effort. While the murder of a Syrian woman in Adapazarı is still fresh in our minds, political parties are playing with fire by fueling a hatred of Syrians
Why does this manifesto reflect the anti-Muslim rhetoric that prevails in France?
How can we contextualize the initiative for changing the Qur’an? What are the philosophical bases of this initiative? Is there a genealogical connection to the Islamophobic network? What is the main function of this initiative?
Europe is suffering from domestic challenges, identity problems, politicians trapped in short-term visions and shallow thinking
Speakers highlight cooperation in the fight against terrorism and media’s characterization of events
Critics would like to blame shifts in Turkish foreign policy on ideology, but it's national interest that drives Ankara's key decisions
Europe should not wait for Muslims to be burned in gas chambers, Mevlut Cavusoglu says
Far right discourse about Muslims is normalized in Europe, says Enes Bayrakli
