Category: Commentary
By Edward G. Stafford The depiction of Turkey as a supporter of embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on a map serving as a backdrop to a presentation by U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton has some worried ...
By Abdullah Bozkurt A plot to kill a critical Turkish journalist living in Denmark by a clandestine group tied to the Turkish government exposes the sheer hypocrisy of the autocratic regime of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ...
By Michael Rubin There is no longer any real debate about the nature of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime. This past year, Freedom House dropped Turkey’s ranking to “not free,” joining a club populated by the likes ...
By Mehmet Efe Çaman The subjective mourning of an academic in exile Does thinking hurt? Sometimes it does, especially when thinking about the past. Things change in life, and I am not afraid of change. ...
By Zulfikar Dogan As Turkey’s March 31 local elections draw near, the usual commotion over party candidates has been overshadowed by electoral register irregularities sizable enough to have a direct impact on the results. Even ...
Turkey’s local elections on March 31 offer an opportunity to determine which rationality reigns in the country. By Gokhan Bacik Given that Turkey is in the midst of a deep economic crisis, the key question ...
By Cengiz Aktar January 20 was the first anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of Afrin, the northwest Syrian enclave that had been under the control of Syrian Kurdish militias from the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Discussion ...
By Paul Iddon Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Moscow last week to discuss Syria with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin followed two crucial developments in the war-torn country. The first was U.S. President Donald ...
Kurdish rebels: Photo source: (Facebook) By Rajan Kumar The Astana process must negotiate a deal between Turkey and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the leading force in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which fought ...
By Kyle Orton U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Syria came with many visible costs . The benefits the anti-Islamic State (ISIS) campaign has delivered to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iran, and ...