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The Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and its Religious Identity
The Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and its Religious Identity

Introduction Up to now, not once expressed by Turkey’s President R. T. Erdoğan a possibility to organize a national referendum on Turkish membership to the European Union (the EU) opened many questions of different nature followed by old and new problems. A current European political concern is reflected in many controversial issues and one...

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The Forsaken Uyghurs of Xinjiang
Nilesh Kunwar | 15 Mar , 2024 0 comments
The Forsaken Uyghurs of Xinjiang

‘Sinicising’ Islam Owned by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Global Times is an English tabloid that faithfully articulates China’s nationalistic perspective on international issues.  On January 5, 2019, it reported that Chinese representatives had held a meeting with members of eight Islamic associations in China and...

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The Study Group Deliberations (The Reason For Change in PT) (1986 to 1991)
The Study Group Deliberations (The Reason For Change in PT) (1986 to 1991)

It’s for the benefit of all and APTC officers in particular that, I wish to recall from memory the thought, which went behind giving endurance training its due importance to further develop the aerobic and anaerobic energy pathways that, exclusively contribute to improving cardio respiratory endurance and include it in the construct of the...

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Reality check: Why the West risks dragging itself – and the world – into a nuclear nightmare
Kanwal Sibal | 07 Mar , 2024 3 comments
Reality check: Why the West risks dragging itself – and the world – into a nuclear nightmare

EU nations are pledging more lethal weapons to Ukraine while refusing to accept Moscow’s insistence that it harbors no intention to attack NATO into their comfortable war narrative. This could be a serious misjudgment Any serious and objective non-Western observer of geopolitics would be baffled by the conduct of European nations in the...

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Afghanistan- Where Lies the Problem?
Neelapu Shanti | 04 Mar , 2024 0 comments
Afghanistan- Where Lies the Problem?

For the past three decades, the people of Afghanistan have been facing the ordeal of war and instability. Taliban came to power by the power of the gun in 2021, replacing the elected Government. Since then, the Afghan people including women and children have been forced to live under the shadows of fear and violence. Under the present Taliban...

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