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Prof. Dr. Ozcan Hıdır The author is a faculty member at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. He specializes in hadith studies, the relationship between Jewish and Christian cultures, inter-religious and intercultural interactions, Orientalism-Occidentalism, theopolitics, anti-Islamism (cultural racism), and Islam and Muslims in Europe and the West. Pope Francis, the new … [Read more...] about Theo-politics of Pope’s visit to Iraq

Ghulam Nabi Fai | WASHINGTON The author is the secretary-general of Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum. The Kashmir question is one of the oldest unresolved international problems in the world. The experience of nearly seven decades has shown that it will not go away and that an effort is urgently required to resolve it on a durable basis. "Durable" in this … [Read more...] about Kashmir can unlock war in Afghanistan

Dr. Adam McConnel   | ISTANBUL[ The writer teaches Turkish history at Sabanci University in Istanbul. He holds an MA and PhD in history from the same university.] ​​​​​​​So, after nearly two months of Biden-Blinken foreign policy, are any differences yet apparent in Turkey’s region? Already, commentaries meant to extol Biden’s foreign policy choices as different from … [Read more...] about Biden-Blinken foreign policy takes shape while America’s Trump era continues

Prof. Taras Kuzio   | ISTANBUL The writer is a professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Non-Resident Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University. His latest book is “Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War” The US has been absent from the South Caucasus for … [Read more...] about The US should support Turkish-Azerbaijani strategic partnership

Maung Zarni   | LONDONThe writer is the Myanmar coordinator of the UK-based Free Rohingya Coalition and a fellow of the Genocide Documentation Center in Cambodia A deeply troubling aspect of the increasingly vicious behavior of the State Administrative Council (SAC), the coup regime, in Myanmar toward civilians regardless of faith, geography, or ethnicity, is its sense … [Read more...] about 60 years of int’l impunity for Myanmar military’s mass murder