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By 2019, Turkey's Islamists will have been in power for 17 uninterrupted years. By 2023, when the number of students at religious imam-hatip schools will have surpassed two million, Islamists will have been in power for 21 uninterrupted years.

Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic on Thursday said that Croatia's role in the global alliance against the Islamic State was not a factor behind ISIS's - unconfirmed - killing of Tomislav Salopek.

A ?blame game? has started after political scientist and columnist Mümtazer Türköne wrote an article in daily Zaman 10 days ago with the title ?Is Islamism finished?? referring to the Islamist movement in Turkey.

Islamist group attacked Serb woman in Austria

A Serb woman who lives in the Austrian town of Wels says she was assaulted in a city bus by three Islamists for wearing a cross necklace.

'The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey: Urban Poverty, Grassroots Activism and Islamic Fundamentalism' by Kayhan Deliba? (I.B. Tauris, 344 pages, £68)

Since the cruel attacks in Paris that killed 17 innocent human beings, Turks are discussing what really happened and why. Like on any other issue, there is a spectrum of views.

On the nicer end of the spectrum, there are millions of Turks who condemned the terrorists and offered solidarity with Charlie Hebdo and the French people. They have done the right thing.

Perhaps the world has never been so close to a threat of the clash of civilizations since the time of the Crusades. The situation is probably far worse than in medieval times. It is neither about insults to the Prophet Muhammad, nor blasphemy against Islam. Such developments are just the tips of the iceberg.

“Your luck is that your Islamists are not successful economically,” a Turkish friend of mine told a Tunisian friend.