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Articles of the author Aylin Kocaman
Democracy, but not for you
We always imagined that the opponents of democracy were extremists living behind closed doors, regarding others with rage and hatred, and deeming leaving their women backward a virtue. They stood in opposition to secularism. They wanted the rules of (...)

30 - 07 - 2013
A simple but burdensome word: Islamist
Islamist… What a simple word. Yet also what a strong word; one that alters systems and brings down governments and puts the world into a state of alarm. Everything is so simple once branded with the tag of Islamism. It is easy to support aggressive (...)

23 - 07 - 2013
Happy societies don't rebel
Societies that are psychologically at ease do not rebel. If there is no pressure on them, if they can make their voices heard and receive answers, if they feel trust and love, then they are joyful and at ease. Joyful societies can find solutions to (...)

10 - 07 - 2013
Egypt's leader should have focussed on people
I am not Egyptian. But I am writing from a country whose democracy has grown under the leadership of a religious party — from Turkey. I opposed with all my might the pretentious comments regarding my country from some representatives of the foreign (...)

02 - 07 - 2013
Perhaps much will change in Turkey
As I wrote these words, it was the morning after a rather lively night in Istanbul. It was hard getting home down the roads where there were endless clashes. That night was the most aggressive and angriest since the Gezi Park protests began. For the (...)

18 - 06 - 2013
Is Taksim becoming Tahrir?
Last week Turkey celebrated the 560th anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul by Sultan Mehmet with stunning displays of dances and fireworks. Now, however, there are tanks on the streets of Istanbul where they had not been witnessed for (...)

05 - 06 - 2013
The new Turkey and the Arab world
New borders emerged in the Arab and Turkish world with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Ultimately, these borders led to fragmentation. Arab societies looked to other Arab societies, and Turkey to the West. The Arab nationalism that rang out in (...)

28 - 05 - 2013
If Daniel Pipes were Middle Eastern
Some neo-imperialists in America have long had the Islamic world in their sights. They know that the real problem lies with extremist Muslims, yet their strategies aimed against the Islamic world as a whole are extraordinarily destructive. They (...)

21 - 05 - 2013
The power behind Al-Assad
Some 700 people were slaughtered in Al-Bayda in three days, almost the entire population of the village. Some newspapers have described this as a massacre of Sunnis. In their eyes, this was an example of the Alawite Syrian regime's genocide against (...)

15 - 05 - 2013
An alliance of unity and love
Nobody had any idea how the Middle East would turn out when the Treaty of Lausanne artificially disintegrated the legacy of the Ottoman Empire. Churchill created the borders we know today as he liked; however, it never occurred to him that this (...)

08 - 05 - 2013
Turkey, one piano and free speech
Last week in Turkey the ninth Higher Criminal Court convicted world-renowned Turkish pianist Fazõl Say of “openly insulting religious values”. This penalty caused some circles to take immediate action worldwide, asking how an individual can be (...)

01 - 05 - 2013
Reform in Egypt must start with women
According to an article in The New York Times, Osama Yehia Abu Salama, the new Egyptian regime's “family expert”, has summarised the place of women in Egypt by saying: “Women need to be confined within a framework that is controlled by the man of (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
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