A New Poster With Turkey's Prime Minister

He got rid of the Ottoman empire, overthrew the Sultan, and made Turkey a republic. Next, Kemal secularized Turkey (secularized- no main religion in place). Turkey had been an Islamic Empire but when Kemal overthrew the Sultan, the religion was no longer dominant. Kemal tried to separate church and state, like the Europeans. No established religion, none was above the other. Religion was now a private affair. This was a revolutionary move on Kemal’s part. Kemal basically tried to modernize Turkey.

The Modernization efforts undertaken by the leadership of Iran and Turkey after World War I share numerous similarities across ideological, and social lines. Both countries shared and benefitted from strong social identities, and resistance to outside influence. While these countries were unified using comparable methods, they were also exploited to further the individual goals of both countries? respective leaders.

What has lead Turkey to dramatically shift its policy? How big of a role has the sense of identity play in this matter? This paper will argue that although the population of Turkey is predominantly Muslim, it also represents a secular state with western style democracy. It plays a critical geopolitical role since it is in the center of Europe and the Middle East. It is also the revival of an identity the Islamist feared had been overshadowed by the West and the Western culture. Therefore, in today’s globalized world, Turkey plays a vital role in complying both Islamic and western ideals to appeal to both of the civilizations.

People rely on their news sources as their gateway to the rest of the world and when these gateways are compromised by the government, the people of those countries lose their ability to fight injustice. In my illustration, the two individuals are blindfolded to demonstrate the national blindness in present-day America. Our cluelessness of what happens beyond our country is a direct result of our government’s choke-hold on the press; America is known as a country of freedom and yet we are often isolated from the knowledge we deserve to know---illustrated by the use of the umbrella above the table. The pillar connecting the barbed wire fence surrounding Gaza has the American colors because the United States government has an incriminating role in what has been happening in Palestine, but it is so far-removed---beyond the picturesque Hollywood Hills---that not many people know about it. Within the barricaded fence, a bomb is titled “the truth”, because the truth of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that devastation has been tearing Gaza apart. The bomb is colossal in proportion to its own fencing to exemplify how large that devastation is. I hope that upon my audience seeing my art, they will grow intrigued and actively seek out the truth about the government’s role in the Middle East. Inspirations for my piece come from a recent flux of political cartoons in response to Trump’s election. I was amazed at how cartoons, which can be so incredibly simple, can convey such intense and important messages to its audience by the uses of symbolism, irony, and exaggeration.

The title of this New York Times photo essay is “A Century After Armenian Genocide, Turkey’s Denial Only Deepens.” The article was written by Times reporter Tim Arango and the photos featured in the piece were taken by Beirut-based photojournalist Bryan Denton. This photo essay uses ten photos and an extended writing accompaniment to share stories regarding Armenian Genocide and its relevance to modern geopolitics.

Ataturk reformed Turkey’s culture by transforming it to a secular republic from its once traditional Islamic government during the Ottoman Empire. Instead, an elected Grand National Assembly was established in order to form a democratic system. Furthermore, he changed the Turkish language from Arabic elements to the Roman alphabet. Not only that, education was further emphasized, old aristocratic principles were abolished, and the family names of Turkish citizens were changed to a more European style.

On November 9th 2016, Donald Trump was declared the president-elect of the United States. This announcement was quickly followed by mass protests in the streets. Citizens were outraged that a candidate, whose entire platform had relied on racist and misogynistic rhetoric, could win the presidency despite losing the popular vote. The protestor’s concerns are well founded. In the last year he has promised to create a Muslim registry, forcefully deport millions of people from the country, revoke citizenship rights, as well as implement other disturbing policies. There is an inherently fascistic and totalitarian element in Trump’s campaign which should influence a closer study into the history, creation, and continuation of different forms of political terror.

On the 17th of December 2010 a young street vendor from Tunisia, frustrated, set himself on fire, and died a few weeks later as an infliction of this self-immolation. Mohamed Bouazizi became a symbol of freedom, and his later death was dubbed as part of a group of "heroic martyrs of a new Middle Eastern revolution."1 These young men and women, whose pictures and names became national icons, were from all over the Arab world. They were all after the same thing; an end to the suppressive evil that they have witnessed throughout most of their lives and to many their entire lives.

In this essay Turkey is the main subject and the people, customs and courtesies, lifestyle, and society. Also you will learn that Turkey can be a lot different than the U.S. from the way they greet people to how their government works.

In the magazine, there are horrendous pictures of bandage-blinded, handcuffed people waiting for their deaths on their knees, by their decapitators. In addition, the main reason of the magazine’s name being Konstantiniyye is that it threatens Turkey that the IS will conquer Istanbul, as prophet Mohammed pointed out, with God’s

Starting in the 16th century the ottoman empire after long struggles and achievements of taking over and ruling Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, And Romania in the balkans, over all the islands in the eastern mediterranean, and lastly over what is today the middle east.latter on during the first world war Ataturk took a quest, making a sacrifice which almost coast him to lose his own life in the most symbolic war in Gallipoli where he was shot in the heart but saved by his pocket watch who took the shot. His goals and determination was to have Turkey gain self determination and national independence. Finally after world war 1 the Sultan wanted to make ataturk a puppet ruler and share the land of the empire and distribute it among the

Human Rights Watch has documented that the battles between the Turkish Military and the PKK have led to 3,000 Kurdish villages being depopulated with an estimated total of 378,000 refuges. Turkey’s persecutions of Kurds only begins there. In 1924 the Government mandated that publications not utter “Kurds” “Kurdish” or “Kurdistan” to try to deny their existence. Following that move Turkey committed the Dersim massacre killing 50,000-80,000 Kurds. Later during the 80s the Kurdish language was banned. During the 90s and early 2000s five political parties and many politicians have been banned for supporting Kurdish autonomy. All of these were part of a brutal Turkification program making Turkey a vile place to live for the

At the crossroads between Europe and Asia, Turkey is a fascinating country. Dominated by Greeks, Persians and Romans in turn throughout the classical area, what is now Turkey was once the seat of the Byzantine Empire. In the 11th century, however, Turkish nomads from Central Asia moved into the region, gradually conquering all of Asia Minor. First the Seljuk and then the Ottoman Turkish Empires came to power, exerting influence over much of the eastern Mediterranean world, and bringing Islam to southeast Europe. After the Ottoman Empire fell in 1918, modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks."

We must all promote a culture of compassion and reason, through education, appropriate political discourse, and a structuring of our media that prevents the effective dissemination of propaganda. The rise of populism around the world makes the aggressive promotion of these values even more urgent. Populism is not inherently bad nor good, but it is a very powerful political force, and not likely to relent without significant changes to the political order as we know it. As Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump demonstrated in America and the Syriza and Golden Dawn parties demonstrated in Greece, populism can take very different forms. We must not let popular unrest become a vehicle for hate and for the degradation of democratic values, as it was in the years leading up to the War. Now more than ever, our commitment to human rights must not be forgotten: too much is at stake to risk repeating

Turkey’s president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk believed that the entire world is the creation of women. Yet, we continue to witness the horrific crime of honor killings of women in Turkey. A report by Christie-Miller (2011) suggests that honor killings in Turkey have gone up 14 times in seven years. This emphasizes the conflict between conservative values and the country's rapid modernization. As pointed out by Sev’er and Gökçeçeçiçek (2001), these killings continue to happen in Turkey despite the fact that Turkey underwent a social, cultural, political and legal transformation under President Ataturk between 1926 and 1928 which, ensured gender equality.