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Palestine and Israel: Levi Meir Clancy, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Palestine and Israel: Nicolas Jehly, Unsplash, Unsplash License
The world and the Islamic world: Hao Wu, Unsplash, Unsplash License
The world and the Islamic world: Youssef Ragab, Unsplash, Unsplash License
The world and the Islamic world: David Rodrigo, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Thought and sociology: Ahmet Yüksek, Unsplash, Unsplash License
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Remembrance and tribute: David Billings, Unsplash, Unsplash License
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Ultimately, parliament, the heart of the republic and of democracy, was not established in Turkey together with the Republic; it is an institution that existed much earlier.

Yasin Aktay · Was parliament established in Turkey for the first time on 23 April?

One of the liveliest fields to which anyone who wants to understand the relationship between religion and society in Turkey must look is Ramadan.

Yasin Aktay · The sociology of a changing Turkey in the mirror of Ramadan

No one is blamed for another's sin or condemned to pay a penalty for it.

Yasin Aktay · The veil that falls between truth and the eye is lifted by the sacrifice

Fasting is the quietest but most essential struggle a person wages against his own body.

Yasin Aktay · Will we be able to see ourselves in the mirror of Ramadan?

In the language of war, it is "civilian losses"; in human language, it is the systematic annihilation of defenseless lives.

Yasin Aktay · The ceasefire has a name, yet it keeps burning Gaza

Innocence must always be given a greater chance to win, wherever and under whatever ideological or psychological constraints it may be placed.

Yasin Aktay · How does Turkey's terrorist appear to the ECHR?

Even when we recite the Surah al-Fatiha alone in our prayers, we address God not as "I" but as "we".

Yasin Aktay · Islamic unity in the context of Gaza and the caliphate remembered anew

We have broken away from some traditions, but we have not yet been able to create new traditions and values suited to them.

Yasin Aktay · Do we know what we are debating in the Istanbul Convention?

The West is not the only different world, the only different civilization or form of society that Muslims have encountered.

Yasin Aktay · Have we now taken the knowledge and art of the West?

A person's creed and faith determine both his morality and his way of conducting himself on earth.

Yasin Aktay · Between power, rote and truth in historiography, our rote is too asymmetrical, Nuray Mert

Ultimately, caring about the plight of those who are unable to defend their rights, of people who have truly suffered oppression and been victimized and left destitute, is one of the most basic conditions of being human.

Yasin Aktay · Who cares about refugees and their children?

Every day on which it is not known what has happened to a mother, a father or a child, the oppression in a sense continues.

Yasin Aktay · Dr. Rania al-Abbasi, her husband and their six children

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