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11.09.2025, Thursday
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Yasin Aktay

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The US set the trap, Israel pulled the trigger: A new low for Zionist treachery

10 Eylül 2025, Çarşamba

Since October 7, Israel has lashed out like a rabid dog—there’s hardly a law it hasn’t broken, an agreement it hasn’t trashed, a humanitarian principle it hasn’t violated, or a war crime it hasn’t committed. And it’s as if the country is chasing some grim form of “creativity,” trying to set a new record every day. Bombing hospitals. Slaughtering children. Targeting and killing journalists one after another. Massacring medics, teachers, and students. Starving civilians to death. Then bombing or sniping

Afghanistan: Inside and Outside the Web of News

18 Ağustos 2025, Pazartesi

Honestly, when we first went to Afghanistan, our minds were heavily influenced by what we had previously heard. We couldn’t expect a government that had come to power just two and a half years ago in a country that hadn’t seen the light of day for half a century to have solved everything in such a short time. Yet, no one really approaches the Taliban with understanding, nor does anyone particularly care to. People are perfectly content consuming the news presented to them exactly as it is, shaped

Entering Afghanistan is easy, leaving is difficult. Is the Taliban Pashtun nationalist? How could they solve such a difficult problem?

18 Ağustos 2025, Pazartesi

The Taliban, who govern Afghanistan today, have behind them 48 years of experience in defending their homeland. An experience forged with great sacrifices, martyrs, veterans, strategic and tactical maneuvers, and patience and perseverance. What emotions, what ideas, or, in Ibn Khaldun’s terms, what kind of asabiyya motivated these people, who, after the Russians, made the Americans regret ever coming to Afghanistan and acted with an uncompromising sense of independence? Undoubtedly, the closer you

Red lines in Afghanistan and the issue of girls’ education

17 Ağustos 2025, Pazar

As our cars tried to weave their way through the chaotic traffic on Kabul’s streets, one thing stood out immediately: there were almost no traffic lights. Vehicles speeding head-on toward each other would somehow swerve at the last second, narrowly avoiding collisions, and then carry on as if nothing had happened. For anyone used to the order of traffic in Türkiye or Europe, this makes no sense. Yet within the chaos, there is a kind of order — and it works. That’s when we learned something new.

After 4 years in Afghanistan: Taliban’s politics of the impossible

17 Ağustos 2025, Pazar

It’s been four years since the U.S. and all its NATO partners packed up and left Afghanistan, pulling themselves out of the quagmire. If we’re counting from August 15, we could shave nine days off that. Of course, if we’re calling it a “quagmire,” that was for the occupiers. For those who enter Afghanistan through the front door, respecting the country’s ways, it’s closer to a paradise—its people, its climate, its natural beauty, the blessings God has given it. During the final exit talks, when

A Revolution in Bangladesh That Debunked Orientalist Clichés

05 Ağustos 2025, Salı

From an orientalist lens, Bangladesh would seem like the farthest and quietest corner of the East—stoic, submissive, burdened by hardship, defined by sweat and toil, and cloaked in mystery. The land of rickshaws and resilience. Hardly the kind of place one expects a revolution. After all, aren't revolutions the domain of the West? In the East, power supposedly shifts only through palace intrigues and the machinations of despots or monarchs. But Bangladesh has defied that script—with intelligence,

The Sociology and Future of the Revolution in Bangladesh

29 Temmuz 2025, Salı

DHAKA These days, Bangladesh is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the popular revolution it carried out last July. It’s a country surrounded by India on three sides and the sea on the fourth—which means it has no neighbors besides India. It has no land access to any other country, and reaching anywhere else by sea is too far, leaving air travel as its only viable connection to the outside world. Though it gained independence from India in 1947 as part of Pakistan, this union with Pakistan

The First Anniversary of the July Revolution in Bangladesh

28 Temmuz 2025, Pazartesi

DHAKA As Türkiye marked the eighth anniversary of the July 15 coup attempt, a different kind of anniversary was being commemorated in Dhaka. Around this time last year, a mass uprising against Sheikh Hasina’s 16-year authoritarian rule in Bangladesh was rapidly gaining momentum. That uprising culminated in a full-blown revolution when Hasina fled to India on August 5. The event is now remembered as the July Revolution, and we’re in Dhaka this week for its first anniversary celebrations. Commemorations

The Path from Suwayda to Jerusalem Gains Momentum

23 Temmuz 2025, Çarşamba

Israel views strong nation states—especially Arab ones—as threats. It does not want any powerful states in its vicinity, and this perception directly shapes its policy toward Syria. Israel has never wanted a unified Syria with territorial integrity and a strong army—and it never will. This is an open secret known to anyone who has faced threats from Israel. For 80 years, Israel has worked to neutralize these perceived threats by fueling conflict across the region, turning instability into a routine

Impressions from Syria at the beginning of the reconstruction process

29 Nisan 2025, Salı

I wanted to be among the passengers of the inaugural AJET flight from Ankara, as I also had a prior invitation to attend to. The flight, initially scheduled for last Tuesday, was unfortunately postponed to a later date due to incomplete technical procedures. But having already resolved to make the journey, and with the hosts insisting, we decided to set out again the same day—not by air, but by road, saying bismillah as we took to the familiar highways. We reached the Kilis-Öncüpınar border crossing