As it became increasingly clear that Syrians were not imminently leaving Turkey, the Turkish government formalized the ...

But his column on Jan 1 to welcome the new year was very troubling indeed. He said secularism is a bigger sin compared to slander and murder because secularism kills Islamic beliefs and faith in ...

The tax on raki, brought in when Erdogan's AKP came to power in 2002, has jumped by more than 2,500% since 2010, a ...

One might lament the resurgence of political Islam in Turkish life, although we have some skepticism of Christopher Hitchens’s fetish for secularism as a per se good. Those of conservative ...

The remarkable downfall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has liberated millions from his tyranny, but Syrian Christians ...

NATO ally Turkey has emerged as the dominant state power in a new Syria, and is seeking to press its advantage by bombing and ...

A decade after the January 2015 attacks, radical left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's about-face on the question of secularism poses a serious problem for the left, both in terms of its extreme ...

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the conversion of Istanbul's Church of St. Savior in Chora into a mosque on May 13, ignoring Athens' claims and "dissatisfaction" over the decision.

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One answer to that begins in 2016, when Donald Trump won his first presidential election. That win was a rupture for many ...

Today, its government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appears more aligned with an Islamic revivalist vision than with the secular principles it once embodied. This ideological shift raises ...