Basheer Nafi | 08 February 2017
On 9 August 2016, Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg. Since Turkey was still preoccupied at the time with confronting Fethullah Gulen's organisation which was accused of carrying out [...]
Basheer Nafi | 25 December 2016 | AR
Should the status quo under Bashar al-Assad be restored, Syria will witness an unprecedented programme of ethnic re-engineering Should the loss of Aleppo result in the end of the Syrian revolution, the outcome would be [...]
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 [...]
Dimitar Bechev | 08 December 2016 | AR
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election has left a trail of political debris in its wake. At the top of the long list of casualties is the cherished myth of American exceptionalism. At [...]
Basheer Nafi | 07 December 2016 | AR
As is custom, several Turkish journalists accompanied Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his recent visits to Pakistan and Uzbekistan. On their way back, the president told the reporters on the plane that the Turkish people must deal [...]
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 | 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 | 19 August 2016 | AR
The government should have a well-developed plan for dealing with the country's major issues. Since the failed coup attempt, Turkey has been struggling to deal with the aftershock, grieving for the loss of more than [...]
Dimitar Bechev | 09 August 2016 | AR
Russia and Turkey find themselves in the same boat, so it's only rational for them to de-escalate tensions.Are Russia and Turkey about to mend ties and put behind them the spat over the downed SU-24 [...]
Basheer Nafi | 30 July 2016 | AR
The coup attempt not only targeted Turkey but was meant to put an end to the dynamic of democratic change in the region as a whole Two weeks ago, Turkey was subjected to a coup [...]
