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2008

January, 2008

Sexual Abuse alla Turca
Why Turkish Women Can't Drive
The Turkish Blutfahne (Blood Flag)
The Alevi Inquisition
The Trouble With Self-Hating Turks
The Empire Strikes Back (Via Juristocracy)
The Turkish Leviathan Under Arrest?
It Is About Freedom, Not Scarves

February, 2008

Nutty Professor Asks For Atheist Tyranny
How Atatürk's Church Became an Ultra-Nationalist Base
A Politically Incorrect Q&A on The Headscarf
Celebrating Turkey's ‘Counter-Revolution' (aka Democracy)
The (Turkish) Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Intolerance
The Surge Worked In Iraq—and Turkey Is Happy About It
Has The AKP Unveiled Its 'Real Face'?
The Greatest Turkish Story Ever Sold
The Kurdish question: The Achilles' Heel of Turkey

March, 2008

Welcome to Islamic Reformation 101
Israel Should Stop Harvesting Hatred—For Its Own Sake
Debate in NYC: 'Is Islam Compatible With Capitalism?'
The Heinous Attack on The Penis of Atatürk's Horse
'Islamization' of Turkey: Not What You Would Think
The Attempt For a Judiciary Coup D'état
Introducing the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ankara
The ‘Crimes’ of Tayyip Erdoğan
Secular Jihad—A Judicial Attack on Turkish Democracy
The Religious Way to The Open Society
The Undivine Rights of Kemalists

April, 2008

And The Show Trial Begins...
'Fitna' Is Fanatical—But It Deserves a Voice
Who Is an Islamist? Who Is a Muslim? And What About Me?
Kurds, Turks, and the Tower of Babel
The Biggest Threat to Turkey is 'Independence'
The American Plot to Overthrow The Turkish Republic
The Republic and Its Islamic Enemies
The Trouble With The Theophobes

May, 2008

A Righteous Judge Among The Unrighteous
The 'Ankara-ization' of The Islamo-liberal AKP?
Who Threatens Turkey's Jews?
The Kemalist Crusade Against 'Imperialism' (aka the EU)
God Save The Queen, Indeed
Why Most 'Educated' Turks are Hopelessly Illiberal?
The Liberation of Turkey—From Heavy Smoke
From Isolationism to Peacemaking: Turkey Meets Mideast
Some Muslims Are Too Conservative. So What?

June, 2008

Yet Another Threat to The Turkish Republic: Pacifism
Why Is The CHP Such a Disaster?
Introducing the Kemalist Revolutionary Tribunal
Imam vs. Teacher: Who Really Won?
‘How Dare You Not Love Atatürk?!’
Does The Secular Mind Beat The Religious One?
Is Islam For 'Victory?' Or For God?
The Atatürk Silhouette on The Holy Mountain

July, 2008

Bomb The Kurds, Curb The Muslims, Save The Republic!
The Arrest of The Untouchables
The Amazing Adventures of The Ergenekon Mates
Good Cops Versus Bad Soldiers?
The Logic of Islamist Terror
The Plot Against Turkey
Turkey Meets 'Kemalist Terror'
Is Turkey A 'Mistaken Republic?'
Why The CIA Funds Me and Other Nonsense
The Islamist Branch of Ergenekon?
Terrorism In The Turkish Mind

August, 2008

The Verdict: Politically Good, Legally Awful
Is Turkey's Problem 'Unreformed Islam'?
The Right to Pornography
Is Turkey Abandoning the West?

September, 2008

Usual Suspects Oppose Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement
‘İftar’ to The Left, Beer to The Right
Yet Another Threat to The Turkish Republic: Postmodernism
AKP, Corruption and Exploitation of Religion
The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Globalization
The Obstacles to Islamo-Liberalism
Let's Get Over With This Crusade-Phobia
Turkey Is Getting More Secular, Not Religious
A Mosque Reform On The Way?

October, 2008

Insulting Kurdishness (And Even More Than That)
A Clear and Almost-Present Danger: Ethnic Conflict
Will Non-Muslims Go to Heaven, Too?
Good Morning Capitalist Vietnam
Torture As Usual — But A First-Time Apology
Can Shariah Be Better Than Secular Law?
The Greater Ergenekon That We Can't Touch (I)
The Greater Ergenekon That We Can't Touch (II)
Rejoice! Rejoice! Obama is Coming!

November, 2008

Footnotes To History From 'Turkey's Kissinger'
The Campaign of Change and Hope
The Right Man at The Right Time
The Obama Nations
A Heretical Idea: Atatürk is No God
Why Atatürk Became a God
The Turkification of Turkey
There Is A God. So Stop Worrying and Enjoy Your Life