Mustafa Kemal

A special collection of 122 pieces, including the personal belongings of Ottoman soldier and politician Enver Pa?a, who was a highly powerful figure in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, will be put on auction April 5 in Istanbul. 

In the historic Edirnekap? Military Cemetery in Istanbul, young soldiers lay side-by-side, resting in a sea of flowers and flags. Their mothers and fathers silently pray and shed tears; high school students greet them by giving flowers and hugging them. Most of the fallen soldiers were born after 1980. Their handsome pictures briefly smile from their tombstones.

Turkish officials have marked the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Victory, the battle that marked a turnaround against the Allied Forces in favor of the Turks during World War I.

Turkey is second in the world in terms of the amount of content restricted on Facebook due to government requests, following India, according to the social media site's Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal.

A slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014 was recorded, the report also said.

For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a defensive way.

An exhibition has been opened at Istanbul’s Koç University which exhibits what was done to justify a war, to prove that war is inevitable. It is an exhibition that we all should learn lessons from.

The exhibition also shows us how far away from genuine documents, numbers and aims written history is structured.

The other day, an interesting email dropped into my inbox. It included a scanned page from the Los Angeles Examiner dated Aug. 1, 1926.

Turkey’s renowned philosophy Professor Ionna Kuçuradi has reacted to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who said the Turkish language is not suitable for the discipline, daily Cumhuriyet reported.

“We had a language which was very suitable for science; yet we slept over it one night and the next morning it was gone. Now we have been dragged down to the level of a country which learns and teaches science in foreign languages. Thousands of words and languages are forgotten. The structure of the language, which used to be suitable for deriving new words and expressions, was curbed.”

‘Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination’ by Stefan Ihrig (Harvard University Press, 311 pages, $30)