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Haberler.com24 March 2019

AK Party Chairman's Adviser Prof. Dr. Yasin Aktay

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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
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Remembrance and tribute: Ahmet Kağan Hançer, Unsplash, Unsplash License
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Evil is never a destiny; it is always a choice that demands responsibility.

Yasin Aktay · The Last Dictator

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

Climates change, oppressions that seemed never to end come to an end, oppressors are crushed, the sun rises, and the world grows brighter than snow.

Yasin Aktay · Will it snow in the provinces of Yemen too?

Islam condemns people's boasting of superiority over one another on account of characteristics they were born with, that is, to which they contributed nothing.

Yasin Aktay · Muslims have their own solutions to racism; they see racism not as a right but as a deviation

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

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

A person can more easily give up his own life, but being tested through the one he loves is the hardest of trials.

Yasin Aktay · Satan is in torment indeed

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"

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"

Legitimacy is related not to the use of force but to being accepted.

Yasin Aktay · Will Israel be tried in Istanbul?

In Gaza the ugliness is not only the destruction itself; it is the speed at which the world gets used to it.

Yasin Aktay · The beautiful, the good and the ugly: Gaza and the Epstein affair

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

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