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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Is AKP, Erdogan’s Power Falling Apart?
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Is AKP, Erdogan’s Power Falling Apart?

Saturday 31 August 2019
Babacan, AKP’s economy czar, finally resigned from the party in July after long disputes with Erdogan. He said that his resignation was motivated by “deep divisions in principles, values, and stances” with the AKP. Yasar Yakis, first AKP foreign minister and one of its founders, wi ...
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AKP’s Founders Politically Divorce From Erdogan, This Has Consequences
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AKP’s Founders Politically Divorce From Erdogan, This Has Consequences

Monday 16 December 2019 ،
Babacan emerged as a mastermind of the new economy that went competitive and attracted foreign investment and promoted trade thanks to his theories and guidelines. He served as the deputy prime minister and minister of the economy before he resigned in early July. Babacan was a heavyweight of the li ...
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Babacan-Gul-Davutoglu Trio Forming To Knock Out Erdogan
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Babacan-Gul-Davutoglu Trio Forming To Knock Out Erdogan

Saturday 14 March 2020 ،
Babacan, who in July last year resigned and announced a plan to launch a new party. The move won serious favor with Gul.  DEVA party; Future Party’s sister and AKP’s rival  Ali Babacan, who also served as Erdogan’s aide formerly and was one of the economic architects of ...
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How Will Mayors Arrest Influence Erdogan And His Party?
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How Will Mayors Arrest Influence Erdogan And His Party?

Wednesday 20 May 2020 ،
Babacan took the same step in March. Erdogan knows very well that the defectors in the next election will take from the ruling party considerable votes and this will strip the AKP of the majority it held for nearly two decades.  To reverse this damage, the Turkish leader now seeks to take to h ...
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Has Turkey’s Erdogan Felt The Danger?
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Has Turkey’s Erdogan Felt The Danger?

Tuesday 2 June 2020 ،
Babacan after the defection of the two figures from the body of the AKP encouraged considerable activity and dynamism among the opposition body, to an extent that with regard to the recent changes in the Turkish political developments change of the organization of the opposition coalition is an unav ...
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Turkish-Israeli Detente: How Erdogan Stripped Turkey Of Its Islamic Identity
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Turkish-Israeli Detente: How Erdogan Stripped Turkey Of Its Islamic Identity

Monday 28 December 2020 ،
Babacan, Abdullah Gul, and a prominent strategist like Davoutoglu are not present in its body to direct it to a logical strategy towards the neighboring countries.  The present decision-makers in the AKP are pushing the nation’s foreign policy towards expansionism, a policy implemented u ...
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Erdogan’s Gulen Nightmare Is Back under Biden Presidency
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Erdogan’s Gulen Nightmare Is Back under Biden Presidency

Saturday 27 February 2021 ،
Babacan defected from the party and founded a new one.  Erdogan seems to be worried about Gulen's influence in favor of the opposition and against the AKP in the next parliamentary elections. His concerns grow bigger as he knows that such regional rivals as Saudi Arabia and the UAE are inc ...
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Erdogan, Struggle for Way Out of Early Election Funnel
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Erdogan, Struggle for Way Out of Early Election Funnel

Saturday 25 December 2021 ،
Babacan, the leader of opposition Democracy and Progress Party and ex-economy minister to Erdogan, on Saturday in an address called for an early vote to move out of crisis.  In latest comments, Kılıçdaroğlu lashed out at Erdogan's economic policy and said that the government offers ...
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Division in Anti-Erdogan Coalition May Grant Embattled President Another Chance
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Division in Anti-Erdogan Coalition May Grant Embattled President Another Chance

Monday 6 March 2023 ،
Babacan, the leader of the Democracy and Progress Party, Ahmed Davutoğlu, the leader of the Future Party, and Gultekin Uysal, the leader of the Democrat Party, announced their goal to defeat Erdogan.  Finally, the coalition unofficially named Kilicdaroglu as its candidate on Thursday, one year ...
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Erdogan’s Discretionary Divorce from Muslim Brotherhood
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Erdogan’s Discretionary Divorce from Muslim Brotherhood

Monday 24 July 2023 ،
Babacan who had key roles in Erdogan various governments’ economic and political successes. Given this, though a new number of his friends joining the opposition camp may not look surprising, few people expected his ideological divorce from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to happen one day, with t ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.