Mustafa Akyol

Two Turkish citizens living in the U.K. and Austria have lost their lives due to the novel coronavirus.

Speaking to state-run Anadolu Agency, Ozan Ceyhun, Turkey's ambassador to Vienna, said that a 28-year-old woman, identified as Yonca Akyol, lost her life.

Akyol is the first Turkish citizen to die of coronavirus in Austria.

Turkish writer Mustafa Akyol stated on Sept. 26 that he was detained by police in Malaysia for 18 hours before being released. 

"It is true. Thank God I am now free after 18 hours in detention. Thanks so much to all who helped, supported, and prayed," Akyol tweeted on Sept. 26.

Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of “False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East.”

A piece in the International New York Times (Dec.

My column neighbor (and ex-sparring partner) Mustafa Akyol was perfectly right when he praised "Canadian liberalism" after a cute children's choir in Canada welcomed Syrian refugees by singing "Tala al-Badru Alayna" (The Full Moon Rose Over Us), the tune that was sung to welcome the Prophet Muhammad upon his arrival in Medina from Mecca in 620 ("Canada: A bright hope for liberalism," Hürriyet D

My column neighbor and ex-sparring partner (if I may?) Mustafa Akyol was perfectly right in his piece "Don't give ISIL the Islamophobia it wants," when he wrote that the French "should not give the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) what it wants, which is an irrational and disproportionate response." He was also right when he wrote that "in a nutshell, this would mean 'total war' agai