Galip Dalay | 10 July 2017
The Arab Spring barely touched the region's monarchies. But as the Qatari crisis shows, for the region's kings, the era of stability and exceptionalism is coming to an end The Arab Spring was an event [...]
Galip Dalay | 25 June 2017
Any sane person will immediately recognize that the list of demands handed to Qatar was not meant to be accepted The much-awaited list of demands from the countries that have imposed a blockade on Qatar [...]
Galip Dalay | 16 June 2017 | AR
The scale, scope and causes of the Gulf crisis have been perplexing even for keen observers of the region's political scene. The architects of the blockade against Qatar are conducting a large-scale campaign of public diplomacy, [...]
Galip Dalay | 10 March 2017
Multiplication of Threats and Goals Turkey’s interpretation of and approach toward the situation in Syria has been dynamic, as the nation has shifted its priorities and used different tactics throughout each stage of the crisis. [...]
Galip Dalay | 03 March 2017
Three radically different judgments have been made about the nature of Turkish foreign policy in recent years. It was described ideologically-driven
Galip Dalay | 23 December 2016 | AR
Despite the fall of Aleppo and the Russian-Turkish-Iranian diplomatic drive, the Syrian war is not about to end soon. Three momentous recent events will shape the course of the Syrian crisis: the fall Aleppo, the [...]
Galip Dalay | 07 December 2016
Can relations between the EU and Turkey be mended? On November 24, 2016, The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution in favour of freezing Turkey's EU membership accession process. This issue will be on the table [...]
Galip Dalay | 25 November 2016
How Ankara Came to Embrace a Policy of Selective Engagement The question of what drives Turkish foreign policy is fraught with controversy. During Ahmet Davutoglu’s premiership, experts depicted Ankara as being driven by ideology, as [...]
Galip Dalay | 03 September 2016 | AR
Turkey and the US still take very different positions on the fighting Kurdish forces in Syria. Barely a month after the traumatic July 15 failed coup attempt, Turkey launched a military operation in Syria last [...]
Galip Dalay | 23 August 2016 | AR
On August 20, a suicide bomber, reportedly aged between 12 and 14, carried out a deadly attack at a wedding party in the southeast city of Gaziantep in Turkey. The Islamic State of Iraq and the [...]
