Category: Commentary

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 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, ...