Mustafa Akyol about Islam, the Kurds and Armenian genocide Turkish journalist and intellectual Mustafa Akyol advocates a tolerant Islam and aims to rectify any of his countrymen’s misconceptions regarding Turkish history and the outside world. Earlier this year, Akyol was one of the guest speakers at a debate, the fourth edition of a series on genocide, organized by the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Radio Netherlands Worldwide. The debate was on the Armenian genocide and took place at CREA, Amsterdam. Jurgen Maas and Annemarike Stremmelaar spoke with Akyol ...

The fate of the WWII comfort women When Japan occupied Indonesia in the 1940s, its military forced thousands of women across the archipelago into sexual slavery. Almost seven decades later, the suffering of these women is still largely ignored by the Indonesian government and the public. A ...

Sunny Ofehe on the Niger Delta Sunny Ofehe was an environmental and peace activist in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s most troubled region. Many people in and outside of Nigeria have given up hope for this oil-rich region. While abundant in minerals, the Niger Delta is the poorest and most ...

Sunny Ofehe on the Niger Delta Sunny Ofehe was an environmental and peace activist in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s most troubled region. Many people in and outside of Nigeria have given up hope for this oil-rich region. While abundant in minerals, the Niger Delta is the poorest and most ...

  Getrouwd en ongelukkig? ‘Een gescheiden vrouw is een cadeautje, een getrouwde vrouw een geschenk uit de hemel,’ zei de jonge taxichauffeur die me na een lange vermoeide dag naar huis bracht. Ik had hem gevraagd of hij een vriendin heeft en of hij vrijelijk met haar kan omgaan. ...