Could Owen Hunt be on his way to his second divorce on Grey's Anatomy?

When season 13 began, we had such high hopes for newlyweds Owen and Amelia, but like all hope in Shondaland, it quickly dissipated to the point that they aren't even sleeping under the same roof anymore, let alone speaking. And as Kevin McKidd tells us, this very well could be the end of the road for the couple.

"It's a hard one because she's got all these demons. He does too. And now they've hit against this big issue of the baby. Owen has always imagined having a family, and now she seems to be changing her view on that. So that's going to be a big issue for them," the actor told E! News during a recent visit to the Grey's set. "I'll be interested to see what happens, but, at the moment, it's not looking good. I have to say, it's not looking good. But sometimes that's what's so interesting about the show and I think what's clever about the show is that it looks like the story's pulling you in one direction and one thing will happen and it will change everything."

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But before you give up on Owen and Amelia completely, know that McKidd isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. "I've got a feeling that Amelia's going to sort of come to Owen's rescue somehow," he admitted. "I don't know why I think that. It's just a gut feeling I have."

Whatever happens, look for some movement on that front beginning with tonight's episode, when Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) finally faces her feelings about her estranged husband.

Speaking of estrangement, when we sat down with McKidd we couldn't resist the opportunity to test him on the fan theory out there that his presumed dead sister Meganwho we met in this season's flashback-laden episode "The Room Where It Happens," where she was played by Bridget Reganisn't actually all that dead. After all, this is Grey's. You don't usually hear about a family member if they're not going to make their way to Grey Sloan Memorial in some way,shape or form.

So, could McKidd shed any light on the theory? After a long pause wherein he seemed to be very carefully crafting his response, he said,"I can't. Listen, on any ABC Shondaland show, there's always a maybe to everything. Anything can happen. I've got to say, the actress who played her in the flashback episode is brilliant and we had great chemistry and we got along really well. So, if that happened, I'd be very delighted about it."

For more from McKidd, including why he's hoping for a visit from former co-star Sandra Oh, be sure to check out the video above.

Are you still holding out hope for Owen and Amelia? And do you buy into the theory that Megan just might be alive? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Featuring a diversity of programming languages, backend technology offers the right tool for any kind of job. At the frontend, however, it's one size fits all: JavaScript. Someone with only a hammer will have to treat anything like a nail. One attempt to break open this restricted world is represented by the growing set of source to source compilers that target JavaScript. Such compilers are available for languages as diverse as Scala, C++, Ruby, and Python. The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler is a relatively new open source project, aiming at executing Python 3.6 at JavaScript speed, with comparable file sizes.

For a tool like this to offer an attractive alternative to everyday web development in JavaScript, at least the following three demands have to be met:

To be successful, all aspects of these three requirements have to be met. Different compilers strike a different balance between them, but no viable compiler for every day production use can neglect any of them. For Transcrypt, each of the above three points has led to certain design decisions.

Demand 1:

Look and feel of web sites and web applications are directly connected to the underlying JavaScript libraries used, so to have exactly the same look and feel, a site or application should use exactly the same libraries.

Although fast connections may hide the differences, achieving the same page load time, even on mobile devices running on public networks, mandates having roughly the same code size. This rules out downloading a compiler, virtual machine or large runtime at each new page load.

Achieving the same startup time as pages utilizing native JavaScript is only possible if the code is statically precompiled to JavaScript on the server. The larger the amount of code needed for a certain page, the more obvious the difference becomes.

To have the same sustained speed, the generated JavaScript must be efficient. Since JavaScript virtual machines are highly optimized for common coding patterns, the generated JavaScript should be similar to handwritten JavaScript, rather than emulating a stack machine or any other low level abstraction.

Demand 2:

To allow seamless access to any JavaScript library, Python and JavaScript have to use unified data formats, a unified calling model, and a unified object model. The latter requires the JavaScript prototype based single inheritance mechanism to somehow gel with Pythons class based multiple inheritance. Note that the recent addition of the keyword 'class' to JavaScript has no impact on the need to bridge this fundamental difference.

To enable efficient debugging, things like setting breakpoints and single stepping through code have to be done on the source level. In other words: source maps are necessary. Whenever a problem is encountered it must be possible to inspect and comprehend the generated JavaScript to pinpoint exactly what's going on. To this end, the generated JavaScript should be isomorphic to the Python source code.

The ability to capitalize on existing skills means that the source code has to be pure Python, not some syntactic variation. A robust way to achieve this is to use Python's native parser. The same holds for semantics, a requirement that poses practical problems and requires introduction of compiler directives to maintain runtime efficiency.

Demand 3:

Continuity is needed to protect investments in client side Python code, requiring continued availability of client side Python compilers with both good conformance and good performance. Striking the right balance between these two is the most critical part of designing a compiler.

Continued availability of trained Python developers is sufficiently warranted by the fact that Python has been the number 1 language taught in introductory computer science courses for three consecutive years now. On the backend it is used for every conceivable branch of computing. All these developers, used to designing large, long lived systems rather than insulated, short lived pieces of frontend script code, become available to browser programming if it is done in Python.

With regard to productivity, many developers that have made the switch from a different programming language to Python agree that it has significantly increased their output while retaining runtime performance. The latter is due to the fact that libraries used by Python applications for time critical operations like numerical processing and 3D graphics usually compile to native machine code.

The last point openness to changed needs means that modularity and flexibility have to be supported at every level. The presence, right from the start, of class-based OO with multiple inheritance and a sophisticated module and package mechanism has contributed to this. In addition, the possibility to use named and default parameters allows developers to change call signatures in a late stage without breaking existing code.

Conformance versus performance: language convergence to the rescue

Many Python constructs closely match JavaScript constructs, especially when translating to newer versions of JavaScript. There's a clear convergence between both languages. Specifically, more and more elements of Python make their way into JavaScript: for ... of ..., classes (in a limited form), modules, destructuring assignment and argument spreading. Since constructs like for ... of ... are highly optimized on modern JavaScript virtual machines, it's advantageous to translate such Python constructs to closely matching JavaScript constructs. Such isomorphic translation will result in code that can benefit from optimizations in the target language. It will also result in JavaScript code that is easy to read and debug.

Although with Transcrypt, through the presence of source maps, most debugging will take place stepping through Python rather than JavaScript code, a tool should not conceal but rather reveal the underlying technology, granting developer full access to 'what's actually going on'. This is even more desirable since native JavaScript code can be inserted at any point in the Python source, using a compiler directive.

The isomorphism between Python and the JavaScript code generated by Transcrypt is illustrated by the following fragment using multiple inheritance.

translates to:

Striving for isomorphic translation has limitations, rooted in subtle, but sometimes hard to overcome differences between the two languages. Whereas Python allows lists to be concatenated with the + operator, isomorphic use of this operator in JavaScript result in both lists being converted to strings and then glued together. Of course a + b could be translated to __add__ (a, b), but since the type of a and b is determined at runtime, this would result in a function call and dynamic type inspection code being generated for something as simple as 1 + 1, resulting in bad performance for computations in inner loops. Another example is Python's interpretation of 'truthyness'. The boolean value of an empty list is True (or rather: true) in JavaScript and False in Python. Dealing with this globally in an application would require every if-statement to feature a conversion, since in the Python construct if a: it cannot be predicted whether a holds a boolean or somthing else like a list So if a: would have to be translated to if( __istrue__ (a)), again resulting in slow performance if used in inner loops.

In Transcrypt, compiler directives embedded in the code (pragmas) are used control compilation of such constructs locally. This enables writing matrix computations using standard mathematics notation like M4 = (M1 + M2) * M3, at the same time not generating any overhead for something like perimeter = 2 * pi * radius. Syntactically, pragma's are just calls to the __pragma__ function, executed compile time rather than run time. Importing a stub module containing def __pragma__ (directive, parameters): pass allows this code to run on CPython as well, without modification. Alternatively, pragmas can be placed in comments.

Unifying the type system while avoiding name clashes

Another fundamental design choice for Transcrypt was to unify the Python and the JavaScript type system, rather than have them live next to each other, converting between them on the fly. Data conversion costs time and increases target code size as well as memory use. It burdens the garbage collector and makes interaction between Python code and JavaScript libraries cumbersome.

So the decision was made to embrace the JavaScript world, rather than to create a parallel universe. A simple example of this is the following code using the Plotly.js library:

Apart from the pragma allowing to leave out the quotes from dictionary keys, which is optional and only used for convenience, the code looks a lot like comparable JavaScript code. Note the (optional) use of list comprehensions, a facility JavaScript still lacks. The fact that Python dictionary literals are mapped to JavaScript object literals is of no concern to the developer; they can use the Plotly JavaScript documentation while writing Python code. No conversion is done behind the scenes. A Transcrypt dict IS a JavaScript object, in all cases.

In unifying the type systems, name clashes occur. Python and JavaScript strings both have a split (), but their semantics have important differences. There are many cases of such clashes and, since both Python and JavaScript are evolving, future clashes are to be expected.

To deal with these, Transcrypt supports the notion of aliases. Whenever in Python .split is used, this is translated to .py_split, a JavaScript function having Python split semantics. In native JavaScript code split will refer to the native JavaScript split function as it should. However, the JavaScript native split method can also be called from Python, where it is called js_split. While methods like these predefined aliases are available in Transcrypt, the developer can define new aliases and undefine existing ones. In this way any name clashes resulting from the unified type system can be resolved without run time penalty, since aliases do their work compile time.

Aliases also allow generation of any JavaScript identifier from a Python identifier. An example is the $ character, that is allowed as part of a name in JavaScript but forbidden in Python. Transcrypt strictly conforms Python syntax and is parsed by the native CPython parser, making its syntax identical. A piece of code using JQuery may look as follows:

Since Transcrypt uses compilation rather than interpretation, imports have to be decided upon compile time, to allow joined minification and shipment of all modules involved. To this end C-style conditional compilation is supported, as can be seen in the following code fragment:

The same mechanism is used in the Transcrypt runtime to switch between JavaScript 5 and JavaScript 6 code:

In this way optimizations in newer JavaScript versions are taken into account, retaining backward compatibility. In some cases, the possibility for optimization is preferred over isomorphism:

Some optimizations are optional, such as the possibility to activate call caching, resulting in repeated calls to inherited methods being done directly, rather than through the prototype chain.

Static versus dynamic typing: Scripting languages growing mature

There has been a resurgence in appreciation of the benefits of static typing, with TypeScript being the best known example. In Python, as opposed to JavaScript, static typing syntax is an integral part of the language and supported by the native parser. Type checking itself, however, is left to third party tools, most notably mypy, a project from Jukka Lehtosalo with regular contributions of Python initiator Guido van Rossum. To enable efficient use of mypy in Transcrypt, the Transcrypt team contributed a lightweight API to the project, that makes it possible to activate mypy from another Python application without going through the operating system. Although mypy is still under development, it already catches an impressive amount of typing errors at compile time. Static type checking is optional and can be activated locally by inserting standard type annotations. A trivial example of the use of such annotations is the mypy in-process API itself:

As illustrated by the example, static typing can be applied where appropriate, in this case in the signature of the run function, since that is the part of the API module that can be seen from the outside by other developers. If anyone misinterprets the parameter types or the return type of the API, mypy will generate a clear error message, referring to the file and line number where the mismatch occurs.

The concept of dynamic typing remains central to languages like Python and JavaScript, because it allows for flexible data structures and helps to reduce the amount of source code needed to perform a certain task. Source code size is important, because to understand and maintain source code, the first thing that has to happen is to read through it. In that sense, 100 kB of Python source code offers a direct advantage over 300 kB of C++ source that has the same functionality, but without the hard to read type definitions using templates, explicit type inspection and conversion code, overloaded constructors and other overloaded methods, abstract base classes to deal with polymorphic data structures and type dependent branching.

For small scripts well below 100kB source code and written by one person, dynamic typing seems to only have advantages. Very little planning and design are needed; everything just falls into place while programming. But when applications grow larger and are no longer built by individuals but by teams, the balance changes. For such applications, featuring more than roughly 200kB source code, the lack of compile time type checking has the following consequences:

An interface featuring even one parameter that may refer to a complex, dynamically typed object structure, cannot be considered sufficiently stable to warrant separation of concerns. While this type of 'who did what, why and when' programming accounts for tremendous flexibility, it also accounts for design decisions being postponed to the very last, impacting large amounts of already written code, requiring extensive modifications.

The 'coupling and cohesion' paradigm applies. It's OK for modules to have strong coupling of design decisions on the inside. But between modules there should preferably be loose coupling, a design decision to change the inner workings of one module should not influence the others. In general, this leads to the following rules of the thumb for the choice between dynamic and static typing.

So while the current surge in static typing may seem like a regression, it isn't. Dynamic typing has earned its place and it won't go away. The opposite is also true: even a traditionally statically typed language like C# has absorbed dynamic typing concepts. But with the complexity of applications written in languages like JavaScript and Python growing, effective modularization, cooperation and unit validation strategies gain importance. Scripting languages are coming of age.

Why choose Python over JavaScript on the client?

Due to the immense popularity of programming for the web, JavaScript has drawn lots of attention and investment. There are clear advantages in having the same language on the client and on the server. An important advantage is that it becomes possible to move code from server to client in a late stage, when an application is upscaled.

Another advantage is unity of concept, allowing developers to work both on the front end and the back and without constantly switching between technologies. The desirability of decreasing the conceptual distance between the client and server part of an application has resulted in the popularity of a platform like Node.js. But at the same time, it carries the risk of expanding the 'one size fits all' reality of current web client programming to the server. JavaScript is considered a good enough language by many. Recent versions finally start to support features like class based OO (be it in the form of a thin varnish over its prototyping guts), modules and namespaces. With the advent of TypeScript, the use of strict typing is possible, though incorporating it in the language standard is probably some years away.

But even with these features, JavaScript isn't going to be the one language to end all languages. A camel may resemble a horse designed by a committee, but it never becomes one. What the browser language market needs, in fact what any free market needs, is diversity. It means that the right tool can be picked for the job at hand. Hammers for nails, and screwdrivers for screws. Python was designed with clean, concise readability in mind right from the start. The value of that shouldn't be underestimated.

JavaScript will probably be the choice of the masses in programming the client for a long time to come. But for those who consider the alternative, what matters to continuity is the momentum behind a language, as opposed to an implementation of that language. So the most important choice is not which implementation to use, but which language to choose. In that light Python is an effective and safe choice. Python has a huge mindshare and there's a growing number of browser implementations for it, approaching the golden standard of CPython closer and closer while retaining performance.

While new implementations may supersede existing ones, this process is guided by a centrally guarded consensus over what the Python language should entail. Switching to another implementation will always be easier than switching to the next JavaScript library hype or preprocessor with proprietary syntax to deal with its shortcomings. Looking at the situation in the well-established server world, it is to be expected that multiple client side Python implementations will continue to exist side by side in healthy competition. The winner here is the language itself: Python in the browser is there to stay.

Jacques de Hooge MSc is a C++/Python developer living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating from the Delft University of Technology, department of Information Theory, he started his own company, GEATEC engineering, specializing in Realtime Controls, Scientific Computation, Oil and Gas Prospecting and Medical Imaging.He is a part-time teacher at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches C++, Python, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Realtime Embedded Systems and Linear Algebra. Currently he's developing cardiological research software for the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Also he is the initiator and the lead designer of the Transcrypt open source project.

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Scott Foley's actress wife freaked out when she saw her first 'dead body' on Grey's Anatomy, because her husband was looking up at her.

Marika Dominczyk has started work on the medical drama that once featured her man as Henry Burton, and she didn't realise the show's prop team recycle Scott's dead head whenever they need a corpse.

"They not so kindly killed me off," he recalls, "but to do so, they made a full prosthesis of my head, and those things are expensive to make, so they don't make a bunch of them.

"Every time they have a dead body or a cadaver laying on a table, it's my head... The first time she had no idea; they didn't tell her... She was like, 'Oh God!'"

Marika, who plays lesbian Dr. Eliza Minnick on the current season of the show, has just returned to acting after taking time off to focus on being a mum to her three kids with Foley. She previously featured in TV drama North Shore and played Bernadette in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

"She spent seven years raising our children and now that she had the opportunity to go back to work she was really chomping at the bit," Foley tells Access Hollywood Live. "This part came along and she's knocking it out the park... She looks great in a doctor's coat."

But he's not looking forward to sitting down with his wife's TV lover, Jessica Capshaw, and her husband now the old friends are kissing on TV.

"We've known socially Jessica Capshaw and her husband Christopher Gavigan for years, so it was a little strange for them," he explains. "I don't think we've had the chance to talk about it yet. That'll be an interesting conversation."

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Browse > Home / Headline News / McGill third-best in the world for anatomy, sixth for mining

Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017

By McGill Reporter Staff

McGill just keeps getting better. Thats the conclusion to be drawn from the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject released on March 8, 2017.

From a stunning third-place ranking for the Universitys program in anatomy and physiology (only Oxford and Cambridge were better) to a sixth-place rank for Mining and Metals Engineering, McGill had 32 subjects ranked in the Top 50 in the world and posted 23 improvements since last year, against only 12 declines and 10 subjects where the ranking didnt change.

The seventh edition of Quacquarelli Symondss analysis of subject-specific university performance lists the worlds best universities for the study of 46 different subjects. Anatomy & Physiology is one of four new subject categories introduced in this years listing.

We are extremely pleased to rank among the worlds top three universities in the study of anatomy and physiology, said David Eidelman, Vice-Principal of Health Affairs and Dean of Medicine at McGill. This is a direct outcome of the quality of our academics and staff in these departments, who I congratulate for their stellar and hard work on behalf of our students. I am also gratified to see McGills rankings rise this year in the medicine and pharmacology categories.

Dean of Engineering Jim Nicell was equally delighted with the results in Mining and Metals. We are very proud to be ranked so highly along with our counterparts in other Canadian institutions, he said. The mining industry is an essential part of the economy of Canada, so we must always do our best to stay at the forefront in our teaching and research in support of this sector.

McGills ranking in the Medicine subject category rose from 27th in 2016 to 22nd in the latest edition. In Pharmacology, McGill moved up to the 31st spot from 37th a year ago.

McGill was ranked in five subject areas and placed in the Top 50 in four of them Medicine (28), Arts & Humanities (43), Natural Sciences (46) and Social Sciences & Management (49). McGill ranked 63rd in Engineering.

QS evaluated 4,438 universities,qualified 3,098 and ranked 1,117 institutions in total. More than 127 million citations attributions were analyzed and the British firm verified the provision of more than 18,900 programs. This years QS rankings by subject feature a record 46 subjects, four more than the previous year.

McGill University now features amongst the worlds elite institutions in 40 of the 46 subjects and all five subject areas featured in this yearsQS World University Rankings by Subject, said Ben Sowter, Head of Division for the QS Intelligence Unit.

The University is currently ranked 30th globally by QS, among the almost 1,000 universities surveyed for the annual report of world university rankings. McGill has been ranked as the top Canadian university for 11 of the 13 years that the QS/THE rankings have been published, apart from 2013 and 2014.

The full QS World University Rankings by Subject tables can be foundonline. The full methodology can be foundhere.

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Whether you're feeling Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Nathan Riggs (Martin Henderson) or not I mean, will we ever really get over Meredith and Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) ultimate love story? there's no way Meredith can deny that she's into the doc. He may not be McDreamy, but he's certainly, well, dreamy and always down to push Mer's buttons. Not that Meredith is any sort of pushover: the doctor was suspended from Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital when she refused to let Eliza Mennick (Marika Dominczyk) into her operating room. Meredith's insubordination may have gotten her booted from her own OR, but now she's back at the request of Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.). And Nathan has something to say about it.

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Opinions are like noses - everybody has one. But having worked for and against unions, I believe they are very valuable to society and every workplace.

However, just like any other organization or political party, unions can make mistakes and I have watched them make some doozies. Yet, in the end, I find those who complain the most do not realize their value or how things are supposed to work.

During my career, I have belonged to four different unions and have worked against 24 different unions, and there is nothing better than a strong management and a strong union.

The relationship between union and management is exactly like a teeter-totter or a marriage. One side should never have too much power over the other, and the relationship requires cooperation to make it work at maximum potential.

I know there are many folks on both sides who believe they should have all the marbles, but that is what really causes the demise of the entire operation.

Union membership has been on the decline for years, and the actions of the Wisconsin Governor and Republican-controlled Legislature have made it easy here in Wisconsin.

There are a number of folks who are just freeloaders. They enjoy getting all the benefits that others have worked hard to gain, and they are very happy to take the pay increases the union bargains.

Act 10 made them think they were going to save money, but what they thought they were saving in union dues resulted in them paying out a lot more for their retirement and health insurance benefits plus losing job security and representation.

A management that is too strong does not give their employees proper wages and benefits, while a union that is too strong either takes advantage during bargaining or forces management to waste money on high-priced attorneys to balance the scales.

Everyone knows right now managers are getting million dollar bonuses, double-digit percentage wage increases and golden handshakes at retirement, while the employees struggle to make ends meet with small or no wage increases.

This proves two things. First, this equation is totally wrong. Second, companies and school districts have enough money to give everyone a fair wage and benefit package but dont.

In a labor pool (community or area), when a union bargains higher wages, the non-union employers give higher wages because they have to be able to recruit and retain a quality workforce. Everyone wins, including local merchants!

People complain about the wages and benefits in union contracts, but fail to realize that both sides agreed to all of the terms and conditions during negotiations.

Unions are supposed to represent their members, but many times union leadership feels they know what is best and do not even get input before or during bargaining. This causes the membership to feel disenfranchised and allows them to feel the union only wants their money.

I will show how unions help our public schools in my next letter.

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Unless you've ridden on top of 11,000 horsepower, Leah Pritchett has more stones than anyone one of us. She's a Top Fuel dragster driver and she holds the record for the fastest pass in NHRA history with a 3.658 run over the 1,000-foot distance at the NHRA Arizona Nationals. She set that record on February 24 at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, Arizona.

Ken Block's Hoonigan crew happened to be on hand at the event to capture the action and produce the video above.

The video goes through all of the stages of prep: From suiting up, to climbing on board, to buckling in, to connecting the communications equipment, to reaction time practice.

That reaction time practice session apparently shows a slight that is quickly dealt with during a system check.

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Next, it's time to pre-stage the car, wet down the tires in preparation for a burnout, prime that monster engine to start it, then fire it up.

Now the fun stuff begins. Leah nails the throttle and does a burnout through the starting line. She backs it up, her crew scrubs the pebbles off the tires, and she gets ready for the run.

That means checking the fuel, releasing the clutch pack, staging it, watching the tree, releasing the brake, and, BOOM, going like a bat out of hell.

The video shows plenty of countersteer on the tiny steering wheel and not a ton of visibility out of the fuselage-like cockpit.

In the end, we see a heck of a pass, but it may not be the 3.658 at 329.34 mph that set the record. It sounds like one of her crew says 67-7, which would indicate a 3.677 run, just off the pace from that record run.

No matter how fast she went, this video gives us a good idea of what the Top Fuel experience is like. Of course, video can't convey the emotional and crazy physical elements of this type of racing. The sound is louder than anything you've ever heard, and the feeling of the g forces hitting your body, well, maybe an astronaut could relate but few others could.

Still, this video is worth a watch, if nothing else to see how much cooler Leah Pritchett is than the rest of us.

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I asked a friend for a three- to four-day summary of the German media, and for some reason, the news and comments seemed very familiar. Whatever the Turkish media's attitude toward German policies is, the position in Germany is the same in the opposite direction.

Turkey in German media

It appears that President Recep Tayyip Erdoan's statements, especially his comparison of the current German government to Nazis, have provoked the German media quite a bit.

One of the major German dailies, Bild, published the headline, When will Merkel's patience run out? She is being criticized for keeping her silence amid Erdoan'd harsh comments.

Bild is in favor of all Turkish politicians being barred from speaking in Germany. The tone used in the article is interesting: Why are these Turkish haters allowed to speak in our country? The newspaper is reacting toward Economy Minister Nihat Zeybeki's speech.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has also reached the verge of severing ties: Germany is not a country that is very dependent on Turkey. It has shown great patience until now.

Propaganda turning to violence in Europe

I guess if we were to review the Dutch, French and Austrian media, we would come across similar articles since Turkey has become the main talk in European election campaigns just as it was one of the main issues in the U.K.'s Brexit referendum.

This is called making foreign politics a matter of domestic politics, and it is extremely dangerous because its affects can turn into violence.

Migrants, Islamophobia and Turkophobia are currently the nerve toward which the European public is most sensitive. Politicians are gaining votes by touching this nerve. After a while, all the anti-Turkey and anti-Islam comments, statements and propaganda made to collect votes come back as violence.

Ninety-one mosques were set on fire in Germany in 2016 alone. As many as 40 percent of Germans are in favor of banning Muslims from entering the country.

A total of 48 percent of the people in the Netherlands want Muslims' citizenship rights revoked.

In 2016, there were more than 1,000 Islamophobia-related attacks in the U.K. As many as 60 percent of the attacks were aimed at Muslim women.

In the same year, more than 360 attacks took place in France.

There were 100 hate crime and violent attacks that targeted Muslims in the Netherlands, 30 in Sweden, 90 in Austria and 20 in Belgium.

The total number of Islamophobic and anti-migrant attacks in Europe in 2016 exceeded 2,000 (Source: @trdiplomasi).

Increase in number of people joining Daesh in Europe

As you can see, the more politicians increase their anti-Turkey and Islamophobic discourse, the more it reflects through society as violence. The more violence increases, the more radical approaches increase. And it is terrorist organizations that take best advantage of this.

According to a 2014 study by former FBI agent Ali Soufan, Daesh received recruits from 86 countries. The number of militants joining the terrorist organization from Western Europe doubled in the course of a year. As many as 5,000 militants have joined Daesh from Europe.

The higher these numbers reach, the more it becomes apparent that Daesh militants are from Europe and the more the hate and violence toward Muslims increases. This further instigates radicalization on the opposite side. In other words, Europe is struggling in a vicious cycle, with both sides feeding one another.

This propaganda, and thus the incidents of violence, are certainly expected to increase in the elections to be held within the next two years in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Hungary.

So, what are Muslim countries, and especially Turkey, doing to counter this?

UN: 'Islamophobia is the source of global terrorism'

In a speech he made in February 2017, newly elected U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres made a very sound observation: The cause of increased global terrorism is Islamophobia. However, the matter was never seriously brought up on the agenda in the U.N. Security Council or the General Assembly.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) did not include the problem on its agenda or try to influence public opinion either. Despite almost all of those attacked being Muslim, no solidarity, cooperation or joint action was formed.

Even though Turkish politicians voices the topic of Islamophobia and Turkophobia in their rhetoric, this rhetoric has not turned into concrete steps to remedy the situation.

The subject in Europe is also increasingly evolving toward Turkey. Reciprocal harsh statements due to the constitutional referendum in Turkey and elections in Europe are raising tensions.

Following Foreign Minister Mevlt avuolu's statement: I will come there, nobody can stop me, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairman Devlet Baheli raised the bar, saying: If Turkey reaches a boil, Berlin will burn.

Naturally, all of these statements have an opposite echo in Europe. Hence, an international problem turns into a subject of the domestic agenda, becoming even more difficult to solve.

The problem in Europe needs to be included on the global agenda

Yet, while the problem is one that concerns the entire world and, as stated by the U.N. secretary general, it instigates global terrorism, it is being turned into a fight between Europe and Turkey. This is wrong.

Turkey is obliged to influence public opinion on a more global scale, at the U.N. level, with all the Muslim countries that have been harmed by its side.

The U.N.'s uselessness is probably the first subject to come to one's mind. However, the matter should not be left here, and the fact that this situation is harming economic relations should be included second on the agenda.

The trade volume between Turkey and Germany is at 36.8 billion euros and in favor of Germany. Turkey ranks fifth among the countries with the greatest number of trade activities.

There is no need to state with how big of a difference the EU's trade ties with Muslim countries is in favor of the EU.

Europe has no conscience, it has interests.

Hence, Turkey must produce more global strategies and explain in a more powerful way that the problem in Europe is a problem that concerns the world in general, as the problem cannot solved through rhetoric.

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Date/Time: Tuesday, March 9 at 8 p.m. ET

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