Category: Commentary
Selahattin Demirtaş has been under arrest for four years now. In fact, he was released by a court; however, another court order was quickly issued before he could be freed from prison. The European Court ...
Poor gradings from international credit rating agencies such as Moody’s and Fitch have relegated the Turkish economy to the underdeveloped league as Ankara grapples with long-running economic woes, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The government ...
Hiding its failures has become “crucial” for the Erdogan administration, according to Marc Pierini, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Europe think tank. In an analytical piece first published in French in Le Monde earlier this week, Pierini, who focuses ...
Behold the mighty European Union, second only to the U.S. in economic heft. But also witness what a minnow it is in world diplomacy. Is it any wonder the world’s hard-nosed autocrats and nationalists, practitioners of ...
Clashes between the Syrian government forces and rebels in Idlib have significantly increased following Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to Syria early September, marking a turning point for the Russian-Turkish cease-fire deal in the ...
The autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq sits at a crossroads. To its south is Baghdad, where Iranian-backed rogue militias have fired dozens of rockets at facilities housing U.S. troops. To its north is Turkey, a ...
It now seems Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is not been satisfied with scores of schools he banned at home, and aims to carry out his crusade outside Turkey’s borders. His latest target is the ...
Turkey’s aggressive cross-border operations in northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are not letting up, again putting the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the difficult position of having to manage its relationships with ...
Turkey’s Islamist-based foreign policy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left Ankara’s ties with the Arab world in shambles. The days when Erdogan and members of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) assumed their Islamist ...
The end of fighting in 2008 brought a period of relative calm to the Caucuses. But all these conflicts were unresolved. The clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan that began Sunday morning appear larger than usual. After similar ...