Category: Commentary
The U.S.-Turkey relationship had always some complexities and problems. However, the relations between the two countries have never been exceptionally bad as we have seen during the last several years. One of the recent issues ...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can hardly be called friends. Netanyahu’s departure from office June 13 should have been a jubilant moment for Ankara. For the first time an Arab Party, ...
Dr. Kashif Hasan Khan Mr. Muhammed Fethullah Gülen is not an unknown name. He is among the world’s most well-known religious leaders. TIME magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the ...
Turkish exceptionalism in the Middle East when it comes to secular education is over. Although Turkish textbooks had problems in the past of omitting embarrassing moments in history, never before have K-12 public school students ...
The Turkish regime is competitive-authoritarian a la Levitsky and Way (2010, Cambridge UP). Elections are held but manipulated, with massive government overspending and a great deal of pressure on the opposition (e.g., the Kurdish party, ...
At around 2:30 a.m., I woke up to the loud bangs on my hotel room door in Indonesia, where I went to hold a basketball camp for schoolchildren back in 2017. “We have to leave ...
At the turn of the 1940s my maternal grandfather had to immediately repatriate me so that he could retain custodianship of chieftain forests entrusted to him. What did I do to warrant being declared persona non ...
Turkey’s Defense Ministry on Sunday tweeted that border guards had captured 12 persons including the member of a radical terrorist organization who is wanted on an Interpol Red Notice, in Hatay province, located on the ...
There has been much bad blood between France and Turkey over the past year, including geopolitical competition over Libya, the Eastern Mediterranean, and other areas of political strain. However, in 2021, both countries have sought to ease their ...
A popular Persian music video from several years back features a long line of sullen-looking people waiting to be served at a cafeteria. When their turn comes to choose, we see the grim-faced chef offer ...