Category: Commentary
Hundreds of informal recycling workers in Istanbul have been detained and many face deportation after recent police raids that critics say target migrants in particular. Recyclable waste collectors are a common sight on the streets ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been eager to boost military sales to foreign buyers, but his foreign policy often snags his ambitions. International interest in Turkey’s flourishing defense industry has risen since the Azerbaijani-Armenian ...
Iran’s media has begun to up the rhetoric against Azerbaijan, with a headline claiming that Baku has “denied the presence of the Zionist regime near the border with Iran,” a claim that appears to contrast ...
A violent standoff between Istanbul’s opposition-run municipality and the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — which erupted today over property on Buyukada, the largest of the Princes’ Islands off the coast of Istanbul — has deepened ...
During Erdogan’s recent US visit he addressed Turkish media outlets stating that there isn’t any problem in Turkey regarding the Kurds; “I’ve said this dozens of times before and will say it again: There is ...
In my East African country on the western rim of the Indian Ocean, the United Republic of Tanzania, we have a “Umoja ni Nguvu” (unity is strength) electoral season campaign political slogan. Come an election ...
The obligatory references to the US and Turkey as NATO “allies” and “partners” increasingly fall flat, as bilateral relations may be approaching the breaking point over differences on Russia and Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...
Even though both countries pursue a number of different policies in the Middle East, their relations appear only to be getting better. They are nearly the same age, have been in power for about two ...
Through its systematic attempt to silence and eliminate Uighur cultural identity in the Xinjiang province, China has been embarking upon projects that criminalise Uighur activities in order to cleanse the Muslim minority of its particularism. ...
The 1978 prison drama film “Midnight Express” tells the story of young American student Bill Hayes, who spent five years in various Turkish prisons from 1970 to 1975 after being caught attempting to smuggle two ...