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DOES FREEDOM OF THE PRESS GIVE EDITORS AND AUTHORS THE LIBERTY TO MANIPULATE?

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Court Verdicts and Documented Facts?
By Yurdagül ATUN, Şükrü Server AYA and Ata ATUN; International Aydin University, North Cyprus
Abstract:
As a person who had wonderful connections in school, business, social and even international trade in a long lifetime, I, in my last thirty years took the burden of studying the background of this “genocide” fanfare which is not supported by “any legally valid evidence or document” and hence has been standing as a controversy disturbing our all time “amicable sentiments with several Turkish Armenian buddies”. My prevailing friendly relations with reasonable Armenians are strong enough not to be infected by irresponsible publications or unproven grand-ma tales. Crime and punishment is not hereditary. Also, as mature persons it is more than half of a century that we could rid ourselves from racial, national and religious difference.  Persons are born with natural national roots and beliefs hard to alter.

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SİLAHLANMAYA AYRILMIŞ OLAN PAY, BM’nin 2030 HEDEFLERİ ÖNÜNDEKİ EN BÜYÜK ENGELDİR.

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SİLAH ÜRETİMİ – KÜRESEL YOKSULLUK VE İNSAN HAKLARI:
2030 BM SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR KALKINMA HEDEFLERİ
ARAŞTIRMA YAZISI –  Bölüm II  – Yazan: Naci KAPTAN
DÜNYA SİLAHLANDIKÇA YOKSULLAŞIYOR…
SİLAH ÜRETİMİ
BM TÜRKİYE DERGİSİ  Temmuz – Eylül 2012 tarihli sayısında BM genel Sekreteri Ban Ki-moon silahlanma için şöyle diyordu:
“Aşırı silahlanmış dünyamızda barış için ayrılan kaynaklar yetersiz kalıyor.  Uluslararası silah ticaretiyle ilgili yetersiz seviyedeki yasalar insanların korkunç bedeller ödemesine yol açıyor. Geçtiğimiz ay, birbiri ile çatışan çıkarlar bu alanda büyük bir ihtiyaç haline gelen uluslararası bir anlaşmaya varılmasına engel oldu. Buna ilave olarak, küresel boyutta güçlü ve artan bir şekilde desteklenmesine rağmen, nükleer silahsızlanma çabalarında da ilerleme sağlanamadı.”

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2030 BM SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR KALKINMA HEDEFLERİ VE SİLAH ÜRETİMİ 

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ARAŞTIRMA YAZISI | Bölüm I  –  Naci KAPTAN
BM’ye üye olan ülkeler, daha iyi bir Dünya, daha sağlıklı, mutlu insanlar ve yaşanabilir  bir çevre,  için bir araya gelerek,  aşağıda özetini verdiğim SÜRDÜREBİLİR KALKINMA HEDEFLERİ (BM ve TÜRKİYE  2030 SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR KALKINMA HEDEFLERİ “İstediğimiz Gelecek” (The Future We Want) için, BM Genel Kurulu nezdindeki tüm üyeler, ortak bir karar çıkarttılar ve 2015 yılından itibaren ise bu amaçla BM nezdinde ve ülke ve bölge kapsamında çalışmalara başlanmıştır.
‘Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma’ kavramı ise ilk kez, 1987 yılında Dünya Çevre ve Kalkınma Komisyonu’nca hazırlanan Brundtland Raporu’nda “Bugünün gereksinimlerini, gelecek kuşakların gereksinimlerini karşılama yeteneğinden ödün vermeden karşılayan kalkınma” olarak tanımlanmıştır.*1*

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Book Review: JOURNEY INTO EUROPE

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by EJAZ RAHIM
“Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity”
As far  back as 1996, the distinguished scholar W. Montgomery Watt described Dr Akbar Ahmed as ‘a contemporary spokesman for Islam’. That epithet remains apt even now but, based on the sum total of his writings and work, he is widely respected today as an anthropologist, teacher, researcher, scholar in comparative religion, a committed public intellectual promoting inter-faith harmony and a leading authority on contemporary Islam.
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“RURAL AND URBAN ACTIVIST TRANSFORMING WOMEN’S LIVES”

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#TIMEIsNOW: RURAL AND URGAN ACTIVIST TRANSFORMING WOMEN’S LIVES |
International Women’s Day
Dated: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Venue: GA Hall,UNHQ, New YorK
The Event is organized by UN WOMEN Under this year’s theme, “Time is Now: Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives”, events around the world will capture the vibrant work of activists and their mobilization for change.
Report & Photos by SHIRISH BOHARA, The Light Millennium, Youth
NGO Rep. to the United Nations Department of Public Information

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March 23rd: PAKISTAN, PEOPLE AND FOUNDER

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On the occasion of 23 March Resolution

By AKHTAR MAHMUD FARUQUI
“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State . . . We are starting in the days when there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State. “
March 23rd, 1940 marks a singular milestone in the history of Muslims of South Asia. It was truly a momentous occasion. At Lahore’s Manto Park, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah rejected a permanent communal minority status for Indian Muslims. Instead, he demanded full-fledged nationhood and a separate country.

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“JOURNEY INTO EUROPE: TURBULENT AND MIGHTY CONTINENT”

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This piece is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the new book,
“Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity”.

 Chapter 1 – Europe: Turbulent and Mighty Continent

by AKBAR AHMED
“In that encounter in the gloomy basement in Athens, I witnessed the problems of Europe today. I saw the need to conduct a detailed study of Europe based on fieldwork to look at precisely these issues. I saw the desperate need to discover a paradigm or method for the future that would allow Europe’s different cultures and peoples to understand one another better in order to live together in peace and harmony. To do so, we needed to locate an effective conceptual frame for our study in the context of the social sciences. I thus consulted the scholars who could best guide us.”

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“JOURNEY INTO EUROPE: ISLAM, IMMIGRATION, AND IDENTITY”

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New Book
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed presented “Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity” at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
“Ambassador Akbar Ahmed’s latest project on Muslims in Europe is yet another illustration of his vision by offering us understanding of, commitment to, and hope and compassion for humanity.”

On Thursday, March 15, Ambassador Akbar Ahmed presented his new book, Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity, at the 92nd Street Y in New York at part of their Daytime Talks series.

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I’VE HELD ON TIGHT TO THE WINGS OF THE COSMOS…

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 Autobiographic Poetic Diary

Dedicated to my dear sister Olcay Ünver and my immediate Family in Istanbul…

One half of me is from Turkey
The other half America
My country of birth – my roots and the first half of my life rests in Turkey
The second half of my life – almost thirty-years-long following it rests in America


Bircan ÜNVER

For the original format of this, please click on here>

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“EN BÜYÜK MOTİVASYON KAYNAĞIM ATATÜRK”

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Bilim insanı Canan Dağdeviren BM’de konuştu:
EN BÜYÜK MOTİVASYON KAYNAĞIM ATATÜRK
 Yazan: Naci KAPTAN
Harvard Genç Akademi Üyeliği’ne seçilen ilk Türk Dr. Canan Dağdeviren, 11 Şubat Uluslararası Bilimde Kadın ve Kız Çocukları Günü’nde Birleşmiş Milletler’de (BM) bir konuşma yaptı. Dağdeviren konuşmasında, ‘En büyük motivasyon kaynağım Atatürk” dedi.
11 Şubat Uluslararası Bilimde Kadın ve Kız Çocukları Günü dolayısıyla BM Ekonomik ve Sosyal Konsey salonunda düzenlenen ‘Barış ve Kalkınma için Bilimde Eşitlik ve Denklik’ temalı iki gün süren toplantılar düzenlendi. [Read more…] about “EN BÜYÜK MOTİVASYON KAYNAĞIM ATATÜRK”
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