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Muslim-Christian Relations in Egypt

"We Are One People"

Relations between Muslims and Christians in Egypt are strained these days. Violent disputes are frequent. Now a film has come out that puts a satirical spin on the religious fanaticism and provides a glimmer of hope for peaceful coexistence. Jürgen Styriak reports from Cairo on "Hassan and Morcos"
Armenians in Syria

Half a Home

At the same time as the massacre of the Armenians around 1915, the Ottoman army drove hundreds of thousands of Armenians into the Syrian desert. Today, some 80,000 descendants of survivors live in Syria. Charlotte Wiedemann has visited them
Muslims and Copts in Egypt

Dancing on the Volcano

About ten percent of the Egypt population are Coptic Christians. Contrary to the official position of the government, there are frequent tensions between the two population groups. Nelly Youssef reports
Football War between Algeria and Egypt

Game of Hate

Algeria's triumph in the qualifying round for the FIFA World Cup has unleashed an unprecedented crisis in Egypt. After games in Cairo and Khartoum where the Algerian team and its fans were the victims of violent attacks, all the lip service to Arab brotherhood seems to have popped like a soap bubble. Hamid Skif looks into a bizarre internecine conflict
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The Man from the Planet Ankara

He started like Obama and ended like Bush, say his critics. How Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is betraying his reforms. By Michael Thumann
No AKP Ban

Turkey Breathes a Sigh of Relief

To everyone's astonishment, the Turkish Constitutional Court has ruled against banning the governing AK Party. This gives Prime Minister Erdogan a second chance to put an end to the power struggle between secularists and Islamists. Dilek Zaptçıoğlu comments
The Hearing Regarding a Ban on the AKP

Using Secularism as an Excuse

Turkey's secularist elite would like to prohibit the AKP and would have the world believe that the Turkish people are incapable of doing anything without the guidance of the state, ergo if the people of Turkey do anything, it can only be at the instigation of foreign enemies. A commentary by Günther Seufert
Turkish Parliament Adopts Headscarf Reform

Is Freedom Now at Hand – or the Religious Police?

The Turkish parliament has lifted the headscarf ban in Turkish universities. The Kemalist opposition sees this as a threat to basic democratic values, and intends to appeal to the supreme court. Susanne Güsten in Istanbul looks at the background to the issue
Headscarf Dispute in Turkey

Veiled Debates

The dispute over the headscarf ban in Turkey is displacing more urgent discussions on present-day relations between state and religion. Both Islamist forces and the politically inflexible Kemalists who oppose headscarves benefit, writes Ömer Erzeren.
Kurdish Unrest in Turkey

Political Solutions Recede into the Distance

The renewed outbreak of armed conflict with the PKK has raised tensions in the southeast of Turkey and forced those calling for further democratic and political reforms to take a defensive position. Ömer Erzeren reports in full