Ayhan Kaya

Islam replaced communism as the "other" in terms of ideology, and as a result Europe is becoming more Christian because of the growing hatred against any kind of Islam, Professor Ayhan Kaya has said. Europe is becoming more Christian culturally, not religiously, according to Kaya, who defines the Islamophobes voting for right-wing populist parties as "Christian atheists."

Turkish security forces have freed a police officer abducted by militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) youth wing in the country's southeast in late 2015.

Education is the most urgent issue, according to Murat Erdo?an, an Ankara-based academic who has been working intensively on the issue of Syrian refugees.

A police officer has been abducted by militants from the outlawed Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) in the southeastern Turkish province of ??rnak. 

Ayhan Kaya, an officer from the security-protection department, was abducted by militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) youth-wing at around 5 p.m. on Dec. 10 in ??rnak's Cizre district. 

Professor Ayhan Kaya warned about the risk of using numbers while talking about refugees, which he claims dehumanizes them, however it is necessary to use them to understand certain phenomenon.

The more the world talks about migrants as numbers, the more it dehumanizes and stigmatizes them, according to Professor Ayhan Kaya. ?With such problems, we are all responsible for the loss of lives of these human beings,? he adds Society tends to associate migrants with words such as ?influx,? ?occupation,? ?invasion? and ?flood,?