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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
Thought and sociology: Nikolai Sidorov, Unsplash, Unsplash License
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Law and justice: Sasun Bughdaryan, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Law and justice: Wesley Tingey, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Turkey and politics: Engin Akyurt, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Turkey and politics: Burak G., Unsplash, Unsplash License
Turkey and politics: Çağlar Oskay, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Remembrance and tribute: David Billings, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Remembrance and tribute: Mayur, Unsplash, Unsplash License
Remembrance and tribute: Ahmet Kağan Hançer, Unsplash, Unsplash License
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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?

No liberating idea that heals the heart can come from books that can exist only where there is prohibition.

Yasin Aktay · The 57th Damascus International Book Fair: a threshold where "we write history… we read history"

For Muslims, decolonialism is a matter of actual existence, beyond being a fantastical-intellectual theory.

Yasin Aktay · You wanted to decolonize, and did we stand in the way?

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?

Undoubtedly, throughout history the Islamic world has encountered very different civilizations, cultures and societies, and just as it gave them much, it has also taken much from them.

Yasin Aktay · D. Mehmet Doğan and "The Betrayal of Westernization"

In trying to blockade Gaza, Israel found itself subjected to a blockade of conscience throughout the world.

Yasin Aktay · The Sumud flotilla has reached its goal; next is the Freedom Flotilla

In Islam, the lawful and the forbidden, as the criterion of good and evil, are in themselves the foundation of morality.

Yasin Aktay · Can there be no morality in politics?

The existence of the Islamic world as a subject can only be embodied in an organization that takes Islam as its reason for being and its reference.

Yasin Aktay · Islamic unity is the concern not of others but of Muslims

Truly, no country can survive for long with such a paranoid view, seeing everyone as a potential enemy and attacking everyone it sees as a potential enemy.

Yasin Aktay · The greatest threat to Israel is Israel itself

Islam is the only religion and worldview that has been able to secure coexistence with other religions by binding it to law, even in its vision of the future.

Yasin Aktay · Words that will reach the world from the minarets of Hagia Sophia

Societies sometimes speak not with long speeches but with short answers.

Yasin Aktay · Public opinion in the shadow of war: what are the peoples of Turkey and America saying?

Even if states can do nothing, the peoples and consciences of the world cannot accept what is happening and want to do something.

Yasin Aktay · Rising anger and the Global Sumud Flotilla

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