Category: Commentary
By Cengiz Aktar Recent moves by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s administration to subsidise basic foods in Turkey has reanimated debate over why a large faction within the country continues to vote for the ruling Justice ...
By Joaquin Flores Turkey wants both Patriot and S-400 systems in the event of a conflict with either NATO or Russia – being able to use one against the other, if need be. Ankara will ...
An internationalist volunteer has spoken to The Canary about joining the armed resistance against the Turkish invasion of Afrin in northern Syria last year. Resisting Turkish invasion In 2012, a revolution began in the majority-Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria. People organised ...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters following his speech at an event in Ankara, Turkey, on March 6. (Presidential Press Service via AP) By David Ignatius For a scary snapshot of what a ...
By Gokhan Bacik Turkey has many prominent Islamic movements and religious orders that perform key social and political functions that make them nearly equal to political parties. Several key points can help us understand Turkish ...
By Ertugrul Gunay On March 31, Turks will once again go to the polls, the seventh time in five years following local elections and presidential elections in 2014, two parliamentary elections in 2015, a constitutional ...
By Mark Bently As if a currency crisis wasn’t enough. Turkey’s banking industry, the bedrock of an economic and financial revolution just over a decade ago, is now in troubled times. And it could get ...
By Zulfikar Dogan With weeks remaining until Turkey’s March 31 local elections, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is well aware of the danger that public discontent with a year of weak economic performance ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the United Solidarity and Brotherhood rally in Gaziantep, Turkey, August 28, 2016.Umit Bektas, Reuters By Saleh Maslem Turkey’s hatred of the Kurds means we have been shut out of ...
By Yasar Yakis US First Lady Melania Trump last week paid a visit to a charter school — the Dove School of Discovery, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This was part of her multi-state trip to ...