Category: Commentary
The meeting of the heads of Russia, Turkey and Iran dedicated to a Syrian settlement was held in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on February 14, 2019. Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rouhani and Recep Erdogan discussed ...
Sheri Laizer | Exclusive to Ekurd.net Not only have a very considerable number of Turks joined ISIS from the mainland, their numbers boosted by their extremist brothers, including Uzbeks, Chechens and Turkmen funnelled through Turkey into Syria ...
A Headscarf Affair, a Women’s Affair? In Turkey, the recent parliamentary vote put an end to the headscarf ban, but not to the public controversy that has severely divided and deeply polarized Turkish society since ...
By Elijah J. Magnier The 14thof February meeting in Sochi between the three Presidents (Russia, Turkey and Iran) is not expected to find solutions agreeable to all parties about the two main problem areas left ...
By Yavuz Baydar As the winds of a new Cold War blow across the geopolitical landscape, familiar alliances are bound to be radically redefined. The United States is turbulent and ailing, its policies no longer ...
By Dicle Esiyok As the smoke cleared on the morning after the attempted military coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government in July 2016, a crackdown on the armed forces was inevitable. Yet ...
By Zulfikar Dogan The Turkish Treasury’s coffers are being emptied, and the government is covering this up with what it says is the good news that a windfall from one-off emergency advances has raised revenue ...
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair By Conn Hallinan “Democracy is like a tram; you get off when you have reached your destination.” The comment by Recep Tayyip Erdogan — made more than 20 years ago when he ...
By Cengiz Aktar In light of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s visit to Turkey, cursory attention has been given to a few of the countless disagreements that have existed for decades between the two countries. ...
By Cengiz Aktar The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently voted to reject an application on the grounds that the applicant from Turkey had not exhausted domestic legal avenues. Applicants were complaining about human ...