Ethnic groups in the Middle East

The Guardian - A 17-year-old Palestinian girl who was filmed slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers outside her home has accepted a plea deal under which she will serve eight months in prison, her lawyer has said.

With all the attacks we see against the Christian communities in the wider area of the Middle East, we think the following short interview of a man who is the author of a book dedicated exactly on this issue, will be of a great interest:

TANTA, Egypt—Like the Jews before them, Christians are fleeing the Middle East, emptying what was once one of the world’s most-diverse regions of its ancient religions.

They’re being driven away not only by Islamic State, but by governments the U.S. counts as allies in the fight against extremism.

As we become cognizant of our duty in the face of the daily drama facing myriads of our fellow men and women, and in an attempt to mobilize our forces to preserve “our common natural and cultural home,” His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden approached His Eminence Archbishop Benjamin Atas of the Syriac Aramean Community of the Diaspora to express his active solidarity and love for the lat

Military force may be an option to fight the presence of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Sinjar district near Mosul in northern Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has said, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported on Dec. 24. 

War, as American satirist Ambrose Bierce wrote, may be "a by-product of the arts of peace." Since the Turks (in the majority) and Kurds (in the minority) shook hands to live happily ever after with the foundation of a common state based on a common religion they, in a time of peace, have always prepared for war.

It's difficult to understand for people outside this region, but without any discrimination, Turks, Iranians, Arabs, Kurds or other peoples of this huge region consider great people of the past as their cultural forefathers.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has condemned a bombing attack targeting Turkmen villages in Syria, while the Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador over the incident.

Dan Stoenescu was born on November 4, 1980, in Constanta.

He has graduated the Austin College in Texas, USA, holding a bachelor's degree in International Studies (2003), while in 2005 he became the holder of a master's degree in Globalization and Development from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

As recently as five years ago Turkey had a happy story to tell ? and sell. Its ?moderate? Islamists would be the role model in the Arab world; borders in the Middle East would be as peaceful as the U.S.-Canadian border; the Crescent and Star?s ?rise and rise?