Category: Commentary
Backed by the UAE, Russia and Egypt with arms, mercenaries and air strikes, the Libyan National Army had last summer advanced into Tripoli’s southern suburbs before his offensive stalled As Turkish drones helped drive eastern ...
Mohammed Hamid Mohammed, a Syrian boy who suffered intensive burns during Turkey’s October assault on northeast Syria, sits at his makeshift home in Hasakah, Syria, May 25, 2020. Photo by Ivan Hassib/Al-Monitor. Was a burn ...
As I write this article, I look back at my conservative upbringing and how my views of Kurdish citizens until my college years were based on a set of prejudices the ruling authority had imposed ...
Before Russiagate, the former national security advisor was an operative for Turkey, tilting foreign policy against the Kurds. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is best known for his connection to the Russiagate investigation. Lost ...
As most readers will be aware, victims of the Syrian conflict have scant opportunities for justice. Russia has vetoed a French-led effort to refer the situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC), so instead, there ...
European countries should try to revive the political approach to resolving the Libya conflict, particularly given that Turkey may want to do so from its current position of strength. Libya doesn’t do incremental change, it ...
Fethullah Gülen (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/EFE) A major controversy erupted in Turkey last week after a pro-Erdogan Turkish Islamist magazine “Gercek Hayat” (Real Life) claimed that the controversial Turkish Imam Fethullah Gulen had written a letter ...
I doubt this is the most ideal introduction. However, when the subject is the Turkish political culture, it is impossible to stay away from the ‘multiple rulers’ concept. After all, such multiple rulers existed during ...
COVID-19 could strengthen global resilience against populist authoritarianism. Those movements should also learn from each other. In Turkey under populist authoritarian rule, despite all the pressure, exclusion and fragmentation tactics of the government, there is ...
SUMMARY Turkey now controls a long stretch of Syrian territory along its southern border that hosts nearly four million people, most of them Sunni Arabs. The challenges for Turkey there include a difficult balancing act ...