Category: Commentary
The 7-foot center Enes Kanter has become a symbol of Turkey’s never-ending purge—and a potential assassination target. BY STEVEN A. COOK Enes Kanter heads for the net as Cristiano Felicio of the Chicago Bulls defends at ...
By Abdullah Bozkurt Two front aid groups that operate in Turkey’s southeastern border provinces near Syria, led by known militants of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have been allowed ...
Photo by Brandi Redd (Unsplash) By Abdullah Bozkurt The untold part of the story about the unprecedented attack on freedom of the press in Turkey is the toll the crackdown, launched by the Islamist ...
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on August 23, 2013 allegedly shows a member of Ussud Al-Anbar (Anbar Lions), a Jihadist group affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and the ...
By Edward G. Stafford The events of the last few weeks have confirmed several fundamentals about U.S.-Turkish relations: 1, the presidents of the two countries set the course of relations; 2, President Donald Trump, if ...
By David Lepeska Salih Hudayar became caught up in the Uighur fight against China at a very young age. “My uncle had read some book and our neighbour reported him, so police raided our house ...
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 ...
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 W. Robert Pearson Once again, Turks and Kurds are squaring off to fight. Turks and Kurds have clashed with one another for nearly 1,000 years. The Kurds were in the Middle East first, with roots ...