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Cypriot Foreign Minister to Asharq Al-Awsat: Riyadh is the Key to the Region

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Sep 3, 2016 | Interviews

The Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Kasoulidis spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat for more than an hour and a half about the good relations between his country and the Arab region. He also touched on his meeting with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi last month during...

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U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller

Gulen’s Hizmet Service Runs a $150 Capital, Touches a 100 States

by Raneem Hannoush | Aug 28, 2016 | Middle East

Turkey’s recent purge, post the 15 July failed coup attempt had targeted what it calls a ‘parallel state.’ In the intense aftermath of the putsch, the responsive crackdown chiefly affected Hizmet-affiliated parts of the educational sector. Hizmet, or Hizmet Service,...

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Opinion: About Erdogan and Turkey’s Coup Attempt

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jul 24, 2016 | Opinion

Let me start by saying that even those who dislike Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and are not fans of his style of government, like me, did not support the coup attempt against a democratically elected government. Erdogan, in fact, has never enjoyed a ‘carte blanche’...