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		<title>The Greatest Turkish Story Ever Sold</title>
		<link>http://mehmetsoyer.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/the-greatest-turkish-story-ever-sold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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[Originally published in Turkish Daily News]
A very informative piece appeared on these pages last week under the title “Decision to abolish headscarf ban hurts Turkey internationally.” Its writer, Dutch commentator Michael van der Galiën, nicely summarized how Europeans like him see this country. “We often think that the majority of Turks are overly religious,” he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Turkey for Turks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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by Julie Ray
WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; Turkey&#8217;s new law that extinguishes smoking in all bars, coffeehouses, and restaurants by mid-2009 potentially could have as many as 36 million Turks smoldering. In a May 2007 Gallup Poll in Turkey, half of Turks said they smoked the day before they were surveyed. This 50% is by far the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Went Wrong in Islam—An Excellent Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For long, I have been arguing that the bigoted or violent religious interpretations we see in the Islamic world are results of not the Koran, but of the post-Koranic traditions that arose in the early centuries of the Islamic civilization. In other words, I have been claiming that the original message of the Koran, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need to Understand Each Other&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mehmetsoyer.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/we-need-to-understand-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslims that are now 25 percent of the world population need best to understand the Western World; the same as the Western people should change their misconceptions by understanding true Islam (Maged, 2005). In other word, we are all “children of Adam and Eve”; additionally, the Koran proclaims, “We have made you a plurality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam, Media, Policy Makers</title>
		<link>http://mehmetsoyer.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/islam-media-policy-makers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, it is promoted that people never get together in any common place in the World; furthermore, the mass media and policymakers desire to globalize panic all around the world; moreover, they change the public mood regarding Islam (O’Keeffe, 2005). Islam never teaches retaliation; it is discourages the killing of non- Muslims; jihad does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam &#38; Al-Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://mehmetsoyer.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/islam-al-qaeda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Islamic tenets, there is no way to do terrorist activity; moreover, Islam never feeds from violence. Islam is peace like other true religions.However, some fundamental groups in Salafi denomination in Islam differ in their interpretations on the implementation of Jihad. For example, Al-Qaeda, which is a religiously motivated international militant guerrilla organization, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam and the perceptions</title>
		<link>http://mehmetsoyer.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/islam-and-the-perceptions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Cold War, which was the period of conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, the US remained the sole superpower in the world; moreover, after the Soviet Union, another enemy needed to be created by the policymakers in the US. Before the Cold War, the color of the enemy was Red, Communism, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam and Misperceptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People have been misinformed about Islam and Muslims since the early 1980s by the mass media; furthermore, the media manipulated what was going on in the world regarding Islam. After 9/11, newspapers in the US featured headlines, such as: “This Is a Religion War”; “Yes, This Is About Islam”; “Muslim Rage”; “The Deep Intellectual Roots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Solutions to Kurdish Problem In Turkey</title>
		<link>http://mehmetsoyer.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/some-solutions-to-kurdish-problem-in-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To solve Kurdish problem, the Turkish government passed a series of reforms pertaining to cultural-linguistic rights (Somer, 2000).In fact, Kurdish people are free to speak their language and practice their own traditions. In short, the full acknowledgment of the cultural rights of the Kurds provides stability in Turkey. Mrs Kilic assumes that democracy will cure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military, Westernization, and Kemalism in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The military has made three coups against civilian governments to ensure “preservation of the Republic as defined by Mustafa Kemal.” (Yavuz, 2000) The Kemalist military-bureaucratic establishment plays a key role in Turkey’s governance. Because of this, Turkey is still stuck between “anti-democratic secularism and anti-Western democracy.” (Yavuz, 1998) On the one hand, Kemalism’s proclamations are [...]]]></description>
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