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Every instigator or madman, who will dare to raise his hand against the government, let him be sure that the government will chop it off.

— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

Those shedding crocodile tears for civilians killed in the Ukraine-Russia war are silently watching the deaths of thousands of innocent children in Gaza.

A woman who rejects motherhood, who refrains from being around the house, however successful her working life is, is deficient, is incomplete.

These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.

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