Inventing the ‘timeless’ Sunni-Shiite conflict 19 avril 2015
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: conflict, Iran, Iraq, Nick Danforth, Shiite, Sunni, Syria, Yemen
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The Washington Post Sunday (USA) April 19, 2015, p. B5
By Nick Danforth *
Historian Nick Danforth says extremists have spun a self-fulfilling prophecy. (suite…)
Mideast Shift: Sunnis Gain 28 novembre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: conflicts, Egypt, Hamas, Iran, Middle East, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Shiite, Sunni, Syria, Turkey
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The New York Times (USA) Wednesday, November 28, 2012, p. A1
By Neil MacFarquhar, Ramallah, West Bank
For years, the United States and its Middle East allies were challenged by the rising might of the so-called Shiite crescent, a political and ideological alliance backed by Iran that linked regional actors deeply hostile to Israel and the West. (suite…)
Turkey-Iraq row escalates 14 mai 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Arab Spring, CHP, Faruk Loğoğlu, foreign policy, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East, Shiite, Suat Kınıklıoğlu, Sunni, Tareq al-Hashemi, Turkey
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Deutsche Welle (Germany) 14 May 2012
Ayhan Simsek
Ankara’s refusal to extradite Sunni politician al-Hashemi to Iraq has heightened tensions between Turkey and Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government. The crisis adds to concerns over a Sunni-Shi’ite « Cold War. » (suite…)
Turkey: Ankara’s nightmare, post-Assad partition of Syria 8 mai 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Alawite, border, Iraq, Kurds, Latakia, Middle East, Shiite, Sunni, Syria, Turkey
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ANSAmed (Italia) Italiano
May 8, 2012, Rome
With Alawi state on Mediterranean, risking domino effect. The nightmare scenario for Turkish diplomacy takes the following form: an exploding of Syria that has up to now been held together in the iron grasp of the Assad dynasty (suite…)
Long struggle looms over Levant 5 mai 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ayman Mustafa, conflicts, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, Middle East, protracted low-intensity conflict, Shiite, Sunni, Syria, Turkey
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Gulf News (UAE) May 5, 2012, p. 7
By Ayman Mustafa *
Gulf countries must act quickly to avert that scenario or devise ways to limit its impact on region. (suite…)
Will Syria’s Sectarian Divisions Spill Over Into Turkey? 14 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: AKP, Alawite, CHP, conflicts, Middle East, Soner Cagaptay, Sunni, Syria, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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The New Republic (USA) April 14, 2012
Soner Cagaptay *
Observers of the growing humanitarian crisis in Syria are increasingly worried that the conflict will turn into sectarian struggle, and with good reason: The Assad regime has enjoyed overwhelming support among Syria’s minority Alawite population while the country’s Sunni majority is leading the anti-Assad rebellion. (suite…)
Turkey’s Alawite Community Worried About Syria Conflict 15 mars 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: alévis, Middle East, Sunni, Syria, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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VOA News (USA) March 15, 2012
Dorian Jones, Istanbul
While the Turkish government is among those at the forefront of condemning Syria’s brutal crackdown on dissent, the country’s large Alawite minority, known as Alevis in Turkey, has a different perspective. (suite…)
Sunni-Shiite-secular 10 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: democracy, Iran, Islam, Middle East, secularism, Shiite, Sunni, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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Today’s Zaman (Turkey) 10 February 2012, p. 15
Ali Bulaç
Justice and Development Party (AK Party) members gave a lesson on secularism to a delegation from the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) currently on a visit to Turkey, the Star daily reported on Jan. 28. The FJP came to power after receiving 47 percent of the vote in Egypt. (suite…)
Sunni realignments 15 décembre 2011
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Religion, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Bahrain, foreign policy, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Libya, Middle East, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Shi'a, Sunni, Syria, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie
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The American Spectator (web) December 9, 2011
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi *
A new Turkey-Qatar bloc is in the works in the wake of the tumoil in Syria, Libya, and other Islamist hot spots. (suite…)
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