Category: Commentary
China may have no short-term interest in contributing to guaranteeing security in parts of a swath of land stretching from Central Asia to the East coast of Africa, but that does not prevent the People’s ...
The Turkish Ministry of Defense recently announced that its armed forces carried out maintenance work on the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mar Tuma (St. Thomas) in the center of Ras al-Ain in northern Syria. The ministry added in the ...
It has been clear for some time that Beijing’s actions have flouted international law, but research now shows that China is breaking its own laws by relentlessly hounding Turkic people on its northwestern land. Abduweli ...
Turkey marked the fifth anniversary of a July 15, 2016 coup attempt amid many questions regarding inconsistencies and contradictions related to the incident. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accuses the Gülen movement of having orchestrated the ...
It is time to recognize the status of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, says a chorus of voices who have supported or observed the region’s progress for years. The autonomous region, sometimes ...
The portion of the inheritance will take the stage. We have already started to see the signals. Nobody has objectives such as a radical change, democratization, lifting the human rights regime to the level of ...
Since its inception, the Diyanet – Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey – has been there to streamline religious practice in Turkey under the watchful eye of the state. As one of the most critical ...
Turkey and its ally the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus are moving ahead with their plan to develop the town of Varosha. The UN-recognized Republic of Cyprus opposes the move, and the issue relates to ...
Having exhausted the yields of his Syrian, Libyan and Eastern Mediterranean ventures, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned to long-divided Cyprus for the nationalist fuel he needs in domestic politics. Back in 2004, Erdogan ...
Tunisia’s president has taken on near dictatorial powers. Democracy’s survival is in the hands of the largest labor union and the military. Amid Tunisia’s political upheaval, it is easy to hear echoes of the events in Egypt eight years ...