Category: Commentary
By Nurcan Baysal It is the first days of the new year. Early in the morning, I leave my home in Diyarbakır, the de facto Kurdish capital of southeast Turkey, and head to Cizre, a ...
By Yavuz Baydar Analysing events in the Middle East is like palm reading through opal glass — nothing is as it seems and not much is clear. Today’s political winner is tomorrow’s big loser. Those ...
By Imdat Oner In 2009, Turkey stopped an Iranian vessel bound for Venezuela transferring unmanned aerial vehicles and related equipment, prohibited by a UN Security Council resolution. Wikileaks documents later revealed that having provided the intelligence to Turkish officials, ...
Turkey is today what Saudi Arabia was in the decades before the September 11, 2001, that is, a sponsor of radicalism on a global scale. by Michael Rubin On December 18, 2018, customs authorities seized three thousand Turkish-made ...
Spiritual Absence and Suicide By : Dr. Besir Altun My heart misses a beat every time an ambulance pulls up in front of our hospital, tearing the silence of the night. When I see a ...
Peace talks over Cyprus need another chance By: Ali Yurttagul The only way to resolve current disputes about potentially huge gas deposits off Cyprus is to restart with talks between Turkey, Greece and Cyprus over ...
Turkey should weigh the pros and cons of operation east of Euphrates By: Yasar Yakis Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s frequent expressions of his willingness to launch a military operation east of the River Euphrates ...
Turkish budget does not reliably reflect government’s preferences By: Eser Karakas Budgets are important political documents, but this importance is mostly due to the fact that they reflect public-political preferences in democratic constitutional states. Budgetary ...
By: Zulfikar Dogan The latest figures released by the Banks Association of Turkey (TBB)’s Risk Centre reveal a grave situation as the flow of cash and payments on the markets dries up and debtors find ...
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By Ali Abaday The rest of the world doesn’t know very much about the after-effects of the Vietnam War in the US. The Pentagon Papers, one of the most important developments in American democracy, showed ...