The Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, is currently considering whether to reconvert the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque, a status it held from the Ottoman conquest o... Read more

The bitter fact for Turkey and its citizens is that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his administration regards itself as endowed with the authority to inflict damage on major cultural lan... Read more

The European Union condemned a decision by Turkey to convert the UNESCO world heritage site Hagia Sophia into a mosque and called on the country to ease mounting tensions in the Eastern Medi... Read more

The European Union is seeking ways of imposing sanctions on Turkey in the event that its transgressions in the East Mediterranean are scaled up, and in the wake of its decision to convert Ha... Read more

The conversion of the Hagia Sophia monument is among the latest moves by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan towards his lifelong political goal of replacing Turkey’s secularism with a re... Read more

Ali Ragab   A Kurdish human rights report has confirmed that Turkey’s interference in northern Syria has deepened ethnic and sectarian divisions and tensions, pointing to the regions of... Read more

Aya Ezz   Adding to the series of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s tyrannous acts, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has passed a law on trade union pluralism, whic... Read more

China has accused the US of “stirring up tension” after America’s secretary of state said it would take a tougher stance on Beijing’s “bullying” in the So... Read more

Ahmed Adel Terrorist groups step up their activities in western Africa, which complicates the security situation in the region. The same activities caused the displacement of close to 240,00... Read more

Mahmud al-Batakoshi Incumbent Minister of Defense, Şule Akar, is one of the important tools used by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He partnered with him in fabricating the 2016 coup... Read more

The move by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to turn the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque signals plans for a snap election, wrote Yeniçağ columnist Orhan Uğuroğlu on Monday. Turkey’s s... Read more

Emira al-Sherif   Italian police last week seized a large amount of amphetamines produced by ISIS in Syria, amounting to 14 tons in the form of 84 million Captagon pills in three contai... Read more

Shaimaa Yahya   Extremist Islamism is polymorphic, infiltrates all aspects of social life, and seeks to impose new values on society under the pretext of individual freedom. These words... Read more

Ali Ragab   Clashes between Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) militias in the city of Janzour near the capital Tripoli revealed the course of Fayez al-Sarraj’s terrorist militi... Read more