L’écrivain saoudien Turki al-Hamad libéré. Pas de jugement ni d’accusation.
. :ميدل ايست اونلاين ::Middle East Online :.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/?id=156432
إطلاق سراح تركي الحمد دون محاكمة أو اتهامات
Il a tout de même passé quasi 6 mois en prison !
Understanding people’s anger at Tayyip Erdoğan
Emre Uslu, Columnist, Today’s Zamman, 2 June 2013
http://www.todayszaman.com/columnistDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=317219
“Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a legendary leader who has managed to win elections in the last 10 years. However, in the last 10 days, the protests in Taksim Square in İstanbul revealed public anger toward him too. One needs to examine why people rebelled against Erdoğan? And more importantly, how do Justice and Development Party (AKP) supporters see what Erdoğan is doing?
When I ask people on the street these questions, there are various explanations. In a way, everyone has his or her own reason for being against Erdoğan. However almost all of them, including AKP supporters, agree on one thing: People no longer respect Erdoğan as they used to. For instance, a local AKP official told me that, “There are people in my district, a district where the AKP received 80 percent of the votes, who used to say “I love Erdoğan so much that I cannot sleep before I listen to what he said that day,” but now, the official says, “people no longer have such affection for Erdoğan.”
When I asked what made people change their opinion, he said, “The main reason that people stop admiring Erdoğan is because he acts as if he is the only one who knows anything and as if he does everything better than anyone else.”
However, he adds, this does not mean people stop voting for the AKP. The AKP still has the same voting base because there is no alternative. People are even ready to accept one who is not as good as Erdoğan in terms of leadership, or delivering speeches, etc. but there is no such alternative. Thus, people continue to support Erdoğan."
Why Are Turks Intolerant? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/turkish-society-intolerant-others-nationalism.html
1) Were Turks always like this, or was this intolerance something new?
2) What was the underlying reason behind this intolerance? Was it really “an Islamic outlook, or a nationalist outlook that has Islam at its core,” as Mr. İdiz argued?
On the first question, I can confidently argue that the anti-Christian (and in fact, anti-non-Muslim) attitude in Turkey is a new phenomenon, if we speak within the long-term perspective of history. Because the land that we call Turkey was for centuries ruled by the Ottoman Empire, which was a multi-ethnic and multi-religious state, in which diverse communities lived side by side. In other words, having a Christian or Jewish neighbor would not be disturbing at all for the traditional Ottoman Muslim; it was a simple fact of life. In the late 19th century, an era of liberal reforms, even seeing Christians or Jews among the ruling elite had become a fact of life. One third of the Ottoman Parliament, which first convened in 1876, consisted of non-Muslims — a large representation that is unthinkable in today’s Turkey.
What really destroyed this Ottoman pluralism, and the underlying tolerance, was not “an Islamic outlook,” but a modern, secular ideology: nationalism. (In fact, the Islamic outlook had nurtured tolerance, by its traditional respect for “the People of the Book.”) One of the many academic studies that confirm this view is a fresh new title by historian Nicholas N. Doumanis: Before the Nation: Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia. In his Oxford University Press book, Dr. Doumanis, referring to an “oral archive containing interviews with over 5,000 refugees,” shows that there was an age in Turkey where Muslim and Christians “worked and drank coffee together, participated in each other’s festivals, and even prayed to the same saints.”
English pirates turning #Turk
Sacred Mysteries: Among the myths that Pitts dispelled was that the tomb of Mohammed floated above the ground by the power of a lodestone or magnet.
One day, on his pilgrimage to Mecca, Joseph Pitts sat down, then after a while lay, with his feet towards the Kaaba (pictured here from a 16th-century Turkish manuscript). A Turk beside him asked what country he was from. From the West, he replied. How far west? From Algiers. “Have you taken so much pains and been at so much cost,” the Turk said, “and now be guilty of this irreverent posture before the House of God?”
That was in 1684. Pitts was the first Englishman to give a reliable account of the hajj to Mecca, in his Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans (1704). It is now republished with notes and a fascinating introduction by Paul Auchterlonie (Arabian Publishing, £48).
Among the myths that Pitts dispelled was that the tomb of Mohammed floated above the ground by the power of a lodestone or magnet. He was able to give eyewitness details because he was there as a Muslim, by his account having embraced the religion after a good deal of beating. His third owner treated him more kindly, granting his freedom on their return from Mecca.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9261344/English-pirates-turning-Turk.html
L’Arabie saoudite songe à se doter de l’arme atomique - LeMonde.fr
http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2011/12/05/l-arabie-saoudite-songe-a-se-doter-de-l-arme-atomique_1613571_3210.html
L’Arabie saoudite songe à rejoindre le club des pays doté de l’arme nucléaire. C’est ce qu’a laissé entendre lundi 5 décembre, le prince saoudien Turki Al-Fayçal, un influent membre de la famille régnante lors d’un forum sur la conjoncture régionale à Riyad.
« Tous nos efforts et ceux du monde ayant échoué à convaincre Israël de renoncer à ses armes de destruction massive, mais aussi l’Iran, il est de notre devoir à l’égard de nos peuples d’envisager toutes les options possibles, y compris l’acquisition de ces armes », a déclaré le prince Turki, ancien chef du renseignement saoudien.
Maan News Agency : Erdogan : Turk warships to escort any Gaza aid vessels
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=418701
Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks broadcast on Al Jazeera television Thursday.
Erdogan also said that Turkey had taken steps to stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean, according to Al Jazeera’s translation of excerpts of the interview.
On n’est pas obligé de le croire sur ce coup.
Ce #cablegate révèle une histoire absolument épouvantable : le 15 mars 2006, des soldats américains en Irak exécutent les dix membres d’une famille (de 3 ans à 74 ans) puis font procéder à un bombardement aérien de la maison pour faire disparaître les preuves :
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/04/06GENEVA763.html#par2006
I have received various reports indicating that at least 10 persons, namely Mr. Faiz Hratt Khalaf, (aged 28), his wife Sumay’ya Abdul Razzaq Khuther (aged 24), their three children Hawra’a (aged 5) Aisha ( aged 3) and Husam (5 months old), Faiz’s mother Ms. Turkiya Majeed Ali (aged 74), Faiz’s sister (name unknown), Faiz’s nieces Asma’a Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 5 years old), and Usama Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 3 years), and a visiting relative Ms. Iqtisad Hameed Mehdi (aged 23) were killed during the raid.
According to the information received, American troops approached Mr. Faiz’s home in the early hours of 15 March ¶2006. It would appear that when the MNF approached the house, shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued for some 25 minutes. The MNF troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them. After the initial MNF intervention, a US air raid ensued that destroyed the house.