This is placing a huge strain on public services. Last year, Turkey enrolled , Syrian children into primary and secondary education. While this was a big improvement on the year before, it makes up only a small number of the more than , school-aged Syrian children living in Turkey. Since a staggering 70, Syrian babies have been born in Turkey. Those born in will start school this year. Starting in March, all adult Syrian refugees who have been legally registered in Turkey for at least six months will be able to apply for a work permit.
This will help the refugee population to assimilate into Turkish society, give them an opportunity to earn a living, and, it is hoped, reduce the number of refugees making the daring trip to other places in Europe.
On the other hand, this move is likely to push unskilled Turks out of low-wage jobs or, at a minimum, drive down wages in unskilled labour sectors. With unemployment hovering at just under 11 percent in Turkey, this could have significant social and economic consequences.
With the increased fighting in the region around Aleppo, more civilians have been massing on the Turkish border hoping to escape the bloodshed. Some suggest that the estimate could be as high as one million. For months Turkey has been calling for the establishment of a so-called safe zone in northern Syria. In fact, the streets of Arab cities I have visited were virtually empty when the shows were broadcast. Some Arabs spend hundreds of dollars for tours to the Turkish neighborhoods where the shows are set or to see the homes of famous Turkish actors.
For many Arabs with whom I have spoken, Turkish soap operas evoke their ambivalence toward their northern neighbors. Significantly, for much of the past century, secular and Western-oriented nationalists shaped how both Arabs and Turks viewed both their neighbors and their past.
According to this worldview, it was the treachery of the Arabs in World War I, their excessive religiosity, and fierce opposition to Western modernity that had held back the Turks and ultimately led to the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
Over the last decade, however, many Arabs and Turks have begun to move beyond these critical worldviews and assumptions. While they still cherish their national identities, they have sought out their pre-World War I roots and their shared past under the Ottoman Empire. For instance, I have met many families in the Arab world who have recently rediscovered their Turkish heritage and ties to Turkey. Turkish gender equality is also reflected in the Turkish language.
Turkish grammar does not have gender-based nouns like Arabic or Western languages. The Turkish language also does not have a specific language structure for women like Japanese. In Turkish, the Sultan title is both used to define King and Queen. The Queen is also another administrative figure in Turkish culture that is not seen in Arabic culture.
Sabiha Gokcen airport is named after the first women fighter pilot in world history. She flew around 8, hours and participated in 32 different military operations. Islam was not just a religion in its early days, and it was also an empire. The Islamic empire was ruled by the Caliphs, who were also spiritual leaders of Islam.
In those ancient times, Turkic people had a Shamanic Faith Tengrism , and they were mostly nomadic people living in Central Asia. Islamic Empire embraced the Arabic superiority principle, and they assimilated the populations in the regions where they reigned.
Yet, Turks resisted changing their identity, and Turkic countries clashed with Islamic Empire for centuries. For these reasons, unlike major Middle Eastern cultures like Egyptians, Turkish people preserved their culture when Turks converted to Islam and did not get assimilated into Arab identity. Also Turks did not live under the Islamic Empire founded by Arabs. Instead, Turks formed their own empires. Islam religion is very different than other world religions in one aspect.
Islam religion sets forth the rules about how a country should be ruled, and Islam presents a legal system called Sharia. Yet, Ottoman Empire was not the continution of Islamic Empire. Ottoman Empire administrative and cultural traditions reflected East Roman Empire Byzantine and ancient Turkish government traditions.
Assimilation was not a state policy of the Ottoman Empire, unlike Islamic Empire. Islamic Empire aimed to convert the religion of people where they conquered.
Ottoman granted religious autonomy and the only major difference between non-muslims and Muslims was their taxing structure.
Non-muslims required to pay slightly more taxes, but non-muslims were free to establish their own cultural and religious institutes. Religious minorities in Ottoman Empire were treated better than European countries. For these reasons, Balkan nations are still Christians despite the fact that Ottoman Empire ruled the Balkans for nearly years.
Under a scheme, Turkey awards scholarships to foreign students, many from the Middle East and North Africa. The Turkish authorities also sponsor events such as Arab Book and Culture Days, organised under the aegis of the presidency for the past five years. Arab nationalism grew in opposition to Ottoman domination in the late 19th century, so what about the colonial legacy?
The Ottoman past aroused no hostility in many people I interviewed, who saw it in terms of exotic imagery. This is the Ottoman world of the dizi, the Turkish television series whose popularity has eclipsed the old Egyptian and Syrian musalsalat soaps 8. Turkey, through its economic development and international standing, is a source of pride for many Sunni Muslims, Arab or otherwise, a feeling which extends well beyond supporters of the Brotherhood.
Exile in Istanbul is often chosen by default. Apart from dissidents, refugees and journalists with some affinity to the AKP government, Istanbul takes in unfortunates of all kinds, Shia and Sunni, Islamist and atheist. Novelist Ahmed Saadawi, author of the best-seller Frankenstein in Baghdad Penguin, , never wanted to leave his native Iraq.
But he joined the protest movement that stormed Baghdad in October , after which several of his fellow activists were arrested or killed by Shia militias.
He admitted he was anxious and hoped to reach a safer destination: in Istanbul, the shadow of the Iraqi mukhabarat intelligence services is ever-present. The Turks open their door to everyone. The demand for property is also steady among wealthy Arab buyers from the Gulf and elsewhere. Some see this as a business opportunity. The real estate sector and medical tourism have turned Istanbul into a land of opportunity for some, where a smattering of Turkish makes it possible to act as an intermediary and earn fat commissions.
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