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A wonderfully balanced article by Ibrahim Kalin on the Shiet-Sunnite cold war in middle east- A must read article for peace lovers. http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/201393-neo-sectarianism-intra-muslim-cold-war.html

A wonderfully balanced article on shiet-Sunnite conflict by Ibrahim Kalin expecting the comments of fellow forumers...

The Muslim world has had its share of sectarianism in the past but its modern incarnations pose a different set of challenges. Neo-sectarianism is different from the medley of traditional theological and juridical differences among Muslims. It is primarily an ideological and geo-political...

Forces loyal to Karzai killed 3 US Soldiers in Afghanistan:azn:

But international experts of ethnology & linguistics put them in the Kipchak category .

I think the agenda of uniting Turkic people has already been shelved by the leadership of Turkey, now they only work only on improving the relationship amongst Turkic nations, Azerbaijan is an exception for that ( It is Turkish rather than Turkic). The incumbent Turkish leadership is working on...

AFAIK Kazhaks are Kipchak Turks!

You must analyze the work TIKA has done around the Moslem world and every year they are increasing the budget and project size. Analyze the statistics of Turkish aid & donations around the world,google it and then compare it with OIC countries Stats. let me share an example of that, when...

Iran has its limitations; it cannot go beyond the limit to openly support the PKK keeping in mind impact of sanction and the incise of Turkish lifeline for international trade exposure will severely affect its economy.

1- The increased attack on Turkish soil by PKK is clearly indicative of Iranian-Syrian backing of PKK after Turkish open support & backing of FSA –SNC. Iran has its limitation to support PKK when it comes to SAM-ATGM unlike Hezbollah. Given the complex Kurdish problem it may reach to PJAK...

Turkey is facing dilemma with increased attacks by PKK inside its territory and lot number of killing of its soldiers. But support for PKK is fading inside Turkey under the AKP rule and that is a bigger success for Turkish State. Syria & Iran are reciprocating Turkey for its Stance on the civil...

[/B] The definition of advanced democracy can be easily coined from the graves of Adnan Menderes Fatin, Rüştü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan.

Russia has denied that its Army officer killed by FSA in Syria.

There is no surety of any strategic decision to be culminating in to the win-win situation. Turkey's decision to abandon Al-Assad and later on extending open support Syrian opposition is based on the certain geopolitical calculations i.e. religious ideology, ethnic composition and offcourse...

This is a war with open sides, Russia will support Al-Assad till the end. FSA knows well that what ever they do will not mollify Russian stance on Al-Assad so better to kill the enemy in war zone than capturing.

one can not sum up the whole long 45 years of minority ruled dictatorial rule of Al-Assads with the examples of Iraq and Afghanistan or Yemen. There is more sectarian difference in Levant than the tribal differences.

May be my observations are not up to the standard of your benchmark. I live in a country that is applauded world wide as biggest democracy in the world and democratic since its inception as republic. It is the choice of people who elect a political party to run the country and the winning party...

You can give 100 examples from Nigeria to SE Asia & i can give you 100 examples from eastern, western, Balkan Europe and from North & South America. And can discuss in length the so called Arab spring too. And you rightly said that we should stick on the subject and should not derail. Now...

The simple question is that why would majority Sunnite Support the Nusyri/ Alawite dictator Al-Assad (Hafez & Bashar) for 45 long years. where as in democratic countries it is mammoth task for an incumbent president to be reelected, even the second term.And kindly do not try to sell anti...