It is not a crime to have relations with Israel. When we say that Israel is behind the America and the whole of world’s economy is controlled by them and we recognize America and the whole of world and do business here, then why not recognize them, as they are a reality here?
So many Muslim [...]
Like Qaid e Azam M A Jinnah as founding father of Pakistan, in Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk an Ottoman and Turkish army officer is the founding father of modern Turkey. As a revolutionary founder of Republic of Turkey he after defeating the allied forces gained remarkable successes in military campaigns to secure independence for Turkey. [...]
Turkey has finally taken the long overdue step to regularise the expulsion of Israeli ambassador over Israel’s refusal to apologise for excessive use of force in last year’s high sea piracy on ‘Freedom Flotilla’. During this cowardly ambush, nine innocent civilians including 8 Turkish pacifists were murdered in cold blood. Flotilla was intercepted by the [...]
Pakistan and Turkey have been emulating each other’s civil-military relations model in a somewhat cyclic pattern. Both countries have had an equal number of military takeovers to their (dis)credit; and unfortunately, both also went through the gruesome saga of hanging an elected Prime Minster each. Two countries have political and national security structures with identical [...]
General Isik Kosaner, Chief of Turkish Armed Forces General Staff, has resigned. Explaining in his farewell message he said it was impossible to continue his duties in the wake of his colleague generals being detained for judicial process by civil administration. “The long-term investigation and arrests aim always to keep the Turkish Armed Forces on [...]
Within less than a decade Turkey has really turned around in almost all strategic aspects. In 2002, it suffered from almost all the ills that Pakistan is facing today. A sinking economy, political instability, ‘junta’ dominated civil-military equation and polarized society were the hall-marks of Turkey. It prided itself with secular ideals and shunned its [...]
Necklace - A thought provoking tale
There were more than 700 participants from 36 countries in “Palestine our Route, Humanitarian aid our load” flotilla, which was bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza; they had come together to ensure that the illegal siege to which the people of Gaza were being subjected should come onto the International agenda. This organisation which was completely [...]
The 1st similarity between Pakistan and Turkey is the both countries’ flags. Both of the flags have large crescent moon on them representing Islam. The difference is apparent too. Turkish flag has secular color red, it represents the importance of secularism in Turkey. The combination of crescent moon and red color tells us that Turkey [...]
If we don’t want to look and follow the examples from the Christian or other Non-Muslim world to progress in this world, then there are examples from the Muslim world too.
Turkey and Malaysia are two illuminating instances, where besides of maintaining thier Islamic entity, both have progressed a lot. Turkey’s one foot is in Asia [...]
