Category: Commentary
Turkey’s gross domestic product shrank 1.5% year-on-year in the second quarter, according to official figures released this week, with a dramatic decrease in investments standing out as a major driver of the contraction. The decline in investments ...
Backed to a corner, Mr Erdogan is fighting for political survival. However, one would be foolish to count him out There are many uncertainties in Turkish politics – the performance of the economy, relations with ...
On March 31, I was reelected as the mayor of Mardin, Turkey. For me, as for so many of my colleagues in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), this was no ordinary vote — we were ...
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,278, September 5, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If the world press is anything to go by, the Turkey-Iran courtship is getting serious, and Russia is playing best man. The two countries’ strengthening ...
Thanks to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s harsh rhetoric, the increased pressure on Uyghur minorities in China has gained international awareness. The Turkish government portrays itself as the protector of Sunnis abroad, including the ...
Britain is experiencing a slow-moving coup d’etat in which a right-wing government progressively closes down or marginalises effective opposition to its rule. It concentrates power in its own hands by stifling parliament, denouncing its opponents ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint news conference following their talks on the sidelines of the MAKS 2019 International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, outside ...
Hundreds faced arrest and prosecution since 2007 over membership of a ‘terror’ organisation – but prosecutors recently ruled that the group may never have existed In July, Turkey saw the closure of one of the ...
It is disturbing and disappointing that the government has once again deported an asylum seeker and his family without due process. According to news reports, Arif Komis, a Turkish school teacher, and his family were ...
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By Gwynne Dyer The Ottoman Empire, like many of its Middle Eastern predecessors, had the bad habit of moving entire peoples around if they were causing trouble. And sometimes, as happened to the Armenians during ...