Cold Turkey

Regarded as a nation bridging Europe and Asia, Turkey holds control over the amount of refugees entering Europe from mostly neighbouring Middle Eastern countries as well as African countries and the Indian subcontinent. Due to the large amount of migrants crossing through Turkey, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) made an agreement to “provide some degree of protection and status determination” for asylum seekers and refugees. The UNHCR defines a refugee as a person “who is unable or unwilling to…

the fluctuation of the oil prices due to the instability in the Middle East. "Syria crisis: Where key countries stand." BBC News . BBC News, 30 Oct. 2015. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. This article is a brief summary of the countries’ like the U.S, Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabis stands on the Syrian crisis. This article is informing the reader about political and economical connection of these countries and Syria. The main goal of this article is to clarify the stands of the countries that are playing…

Characteristics of what modernity looks like in the West is technologically and economically advancement, urbanization, and secularization. Images of modernity and the west are often merged together, which is problematic when developing countries want to embrace modernity, by models the “supposedly” “one-size-fit” all western policies. Major states and individual in the Middle East initially started out embracing modernity, until the 1970’s occurred. The Iranian Revolution sparked several waves…

Beyond the Words Armenian Genocide, Greek Genocide, and Assyrian Genocide, all of these horrific acts lead to one geographical route “Asia Minor” or what is currently known as the Republic of Turkey. After abolishing the office of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet VI in 1922, the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey is announced with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as its first president. Mustafa Kamal Ataturk is an army officer and the organizer of a militant independent nationalist movement in Ankara. After…

Trade has been a universal practice since the beginning of time, occurring not only among members belonging to one civilization, but between other societies as well. Trade was a way for people to have access to resources they otherwise would not be able to have. While trade across land was common, trade by water began to gain more popularity with the invention of better boats. One of the most well-known seas that had much trade occur upon it, is the Mediterranean Sea. Being able to access these…

clear in his ‘homeland ideology’. Keral uses quotes from Ataturk’s speeches as evidence for this idea, the crux of which is that ‘Old Turkey [is] like a dungeon and it ought to be a paradise’, loved by all Turkish. This aligns with ideas of Shinto secular, in that the aim was to create a sense of nationhood and to unify Japan, facilitated through the nation-state, in Turkey, as Keral argues, secularisation was an initiative to enforce a single ideology in opposition to the Ottoman empire in…

not official because of the conflicting results regarding it, there was somewhere in the neighborhood between one to one and a half million Armenians that were slaughtered, starved, or tortured to death between 1915 and 1923. However, some people in Turkey deny the killing of the Armenian people and even are so extreme in their thinking to the point of believing that the Armenians committed transgressions against the Turkish people and killed them, a complete reversal of the events. Turks who…

The western media have made the word Arab spring one of the most popular word; but what is the actual meaning of the word. According to middle east.com Arab spring means the series of anti-government protests, uprising and armed rebellion that spread across the Middle East in the early 2011.Moreover, the main reason of the revaluation was the dissatisfaction with their governments and to improve their living stander. Unfortunately, the outcomes of this revolution have created a horrible…

Have you ever heard of The Byzantine Empire? Chances are, you haven’t and to most people’s surprise, the unheard of empire survived successfully for over 1,000 years. The Byzantine Empire was the civilization that was created when the eastern part of Rome broke off from the quickly falling empire of Rome. The Byzantine Empire was founded in 330 A.D and was ruled by Constantine. The three main aspects of the empire that induced the success of the Byzantine empire were: religion, education,…

The Ottoman Empire One of the great empires of history is the Ottoman Empire. At the height of its power it controlled the entire Middle East and North Africa as well as parts of Eastern Europe. Greece has a long tradition of independence from the time of Alexander the Great. Even earlier the city states of Greece were fiercely independent and even withstood the assault of the Persian King Xersis. Greeks Lose their Independence After that classical age the Greeks lost their independence, as…