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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah İşler (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Turkey Deputy PM: Our opponents want chaos

by Thair Abbas | Mar 31, 2014 | Interviews

Ankara, Asharq Al-Awsat—The recent turmoil that has rocked Turkish politics has focused the spotlight back on the country, after three years of the fallout from the Arab Spring monopolizing the world’s attention. The Gezi Park protests that broke out in Istanbul in...

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan greets his supporters as he arrives for a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara February 25, 2014. (REUTERS/Umit Bektas)

Turkish parliament approves closure of Gülen schools

by Thair Abbas | Mar 2, 2014 | World

Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—Turkey’s parliament has approved the closure of private preparatory schools run by US-based Turkish Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen’s movement, Hizmet, in the latest development of the ongoing feud between the movement and Turkey’s ruling...

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Lebanese MPs attend a parliament session in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 31, 2013. (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir)

Lebanon’s Unwritten Constitution

by Thair Abbas | Feb 12, 2014 | Features

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanon’s unwritten constitution has, as anywhere, arisen from tradition. In other words, any practice in Lebanese society that has affected government and which has been repeatedly practiced has become part of the constitution, so long as...

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A handout picture released by the official website of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shows him, right, meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Tehran, Iran, on January 29, 2014. (AFP Photo/HO/Iranian Supreme Leader’s Website)

Iran–Turkey Relations: Between Competition and Cooperation

by Thair Abbas | Jan 31, 2014 | Features

Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—Following Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Tehran earlier this week, it appears that relations between the two regional powers are once more on the rise. This rapprochement follows a cooling of ties as a consequence of...

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Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad are seen in the Qalamoun mountains north of Damascus. Syria’s army ambushed Islamist fighters in the Qalamoun mountains north of the capital Damascus on Friday, leaving as many as 60 people dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said (REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters)

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights “received Al-Qaeda death threats”

by Thair Abbas | Jan 1, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In another sign of the increasing predominance of extremist Islamist groups within the Syrian opposition, a prominent UK-based human rights watchdog claimed on Monday that it has received death threats from an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant...