Law and justice
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What good does punishment do for the victim?
The author questions what benefit punishment brings the victim and argues that the person whose right was violated, before the state, should be placed at the centre of punishment. Citing institutions of Islamic law such as blood money, pardon and reconciliation, he proposes sanctions based on repairing the harm.
When people are friends they have no need of justice, but even just people need friendship
The author attributes Turkey's high prison population to a culture of punishment that cannot keep to a measure of penalty. He explains that as social trust and the bonds of friendship weaken, problems are carried to the law, but that law alone cannot keep a society standing.
Is it that there is more crime, or more imprisonment? Where does the road to justice pass?
The author says that Turkey's high prison population cannot be explained by crime rates alone and that the real determinant is the conception of punishment. He argues that the cost of a prison sentence is paid not only by the convict but also by families and society.
The desperation of clinging to the chance of getting a Ghannouchi out of İmamoğlu
I have a general principle of not writing at all about matters that have been made the subject of a trial in Turkey.
Never having enough of punishing Ghannouchi!
A court ruling from Tunisia in recent days seems like a new link in a story that has been unfolding in Tunisia for 5 years. But there is nothing new about this link.
Kidnapping Maduro shows not America's power but its banditry
Trump showed the world once again, with his operation against Venezuela in which he kidnapped its elected leader, what we all know but want to believe otherwise: there is no such thing as international law or international justice.
LIBERATION: A MASK OF A PEOPLE TAKEN HOSTAGE? The case of Rached Ghannouchi and Jawhar ben Mubarak on hunger strike
Rached Ghannouchi is the figure who, among contemporary Islamic movements, has most emphasized within Islamist discourse subjects such as democracy, human rights, coexistence and dialogue, and has even placed this at the centre of his mode of struggle.
Will Israel be tried in Istanbul?
The opening panel of the Gaziantep Forum titled Where Is the Islamic World Headed? sought an answer to the question "Has the global system lost its legitimacy?". The legitimacy of the global system has become much more debated since Gaza.
On the horizon of the debate on a new and civil constitution
Exactly 45 years have passed since the 12 September military coup, which made this society accept its current constitution, the social contract that regulates the relations, institutions and powers of the state and citizens or of citizens among themselves.
The truths exposed by the Egypt analogy
The speech that CHP Chairman Özgür Özel gave, with all his belligerence and bluster, to defend the mayors detained for the crime of bribery established as a flagrant offence deserves to go down in the history of Turkish political discourse…
Global policies, media, law and the future of the family
The serious threat perceptions about Turkey's family structure cause ever more concern as the social change we are experiencing is reflected in the figures.
What is even graver than corruption
Let us begin by repeating what we have said before.
Instead of expecting justice from the UN, Turkey's style of politics
The world order that took shape after the First World War and reached its present form with the reshuffling of the cards at the end of the Second World War fills its record of serious failures in problem-solving more with every passing day.
The article in Indonesia that "cannot even be proposed to be changed": the Palestinian cause
JAKARTA
Our values and us
The differences between our conceptions about society and what we see in society often cause us disappointment. This is a situation very often seen and experienced especially by people with political visions and causes.
This constitution has planted a Kenan Evren inside everyone
"When the unthinkable domain in a particular tradition of thought is widened and sustained over centuries, the intellectual horizons of reason shrink and its critical functions narrow and weaken, because the domain of the unthinkable becomes more firmly established and the thinkable…
The unthinkable, which cannot even be proposed to be considered
As usual, the New Constitution debates came down to the question of whether the first articles of the Constitution should change.
The divisions even a wolf would not make, and the role of Muslims
A news item that appeared recently on screens and perhaps in newspaper pages: "The richest 1% in the world receive 45% of the world's income.
What more is expected after the International Court of Justice ruling?
With the ICJ accepting South Africa's application in the "genocide case in Gaza", the attempted genocide that has continued for 112 days deserves, in the very course of being carried out, to be "seen as genocide" and to stand trial…
The most documented genocide in the world
While the crime of genocide that Israel is committing in Gaza continues at full speed and with all its barbarity, this crime against humanity begins to be heard this Thursday and Friday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
A new initiative in the search for justice and democracy in Islamic countries
Last weekend Istanbul hosted a very meaningful meeting.
The language Assad deserves
The new initiatives, normalization or rapprochement policies Turkey has recently undertaken with countries with which it has long had problems are a reflection of its concerns and good-faith approach for regional peace, stability, security and development.
Earthquake-resistant prejudices and emotions
We said it, did we not: the earthquake does not merely shake the ground and bring down buildings built on rotten foundations and with inadequate materials. It shakes, rattles and demolishes everything and offers people an opportunity to rebuild better.
Lessons from the underground
Yeni Şafak · YASİN AKTAY - Lessons from the underground
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