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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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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?

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?

God sent us the Qur'an not as a completed book between two covers, but as a book lived and interpreted within the life of a prophet and his companions.

Yasin Aktay · Prayers and peace upon the Prophet

Contrary to what is thought, economic difficulties do not reduce fertility; on the contrary, the groups whose fertility is declining are those whose level of welfare has risen even higher.

Yasin Aktay · Muslim men and Muslim women: old and new questions

A strong, charismatic and organic leadership is a great stroke of luck for a country.

Yasin Aktay · A reminder to the SDF: whoever invests in Israel is doomed to lose

A perceived sense of power can very easily lead a person into heedlessness and error.

Yasin Aktay · The Sheikh of Love Melayê Cizîrî Symposium in Cizre and Barzani's participation

Gaza is not struggling to survive only on its own behalf; it is waging a struggle for dignity on behalf of all humanity.

Yasin Aktay · A testimony from Bingöl to Gaza

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

Yasin Aktay · Will Israel be tried in Istanbul?

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

The Islamic world is a reaction by Muslims to fragmentation and the helplessness arising from it, and a conceptual refuge they have produced to take shelter in.

Yasin Aktay · From Gaziantep: where is the Islamic world headed?

If memory is operated not as a moral warning but as a claim of right, it can easily turn into a source of violence.

Yasin Aktay · The Pharaoh's watch: the dialectical or cautionary recurrence of the massacre of children

Not every hegemonic discourse produces officialdom; nor does every political superiority automatically acquire the quality of historical founding.

Yasin Aktay · Before an unparalleled history and an unparalleled regime, even hegemony remains far from officialdom

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