Wadah Khanfar | 20 October 2018 | AR
“Say your word and move on.” This is what Jamal Khashoggi used to say after he chose exile far away from his homeland and his family. He was a profound believer in his mission as a journalist. [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 08 October 2018
The international community must side with Turkey in the face of a probable full-scale assault on Idlib in an attempt to prevent a humanitarian and diplomatic crisis. The Astana process, which aimed at formalizing security [...]
Zeynep Koc | 24 September 2018
Eminent journalist Bob Woodward’s new book Fear: Trump in the White House reveals the unorthodox and dangerous agendas being pushed within the administration of US President Donald Trump. In one scene, former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn allegedly [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 18 July 2018
The recent cabinet reshuffle in the British government might mean a foreign policy that shifts even further to the right, with Palestinians and Yemenis bearing the brunt of those decisions. That is, if Theresa May's [...]
Galip Dalay | 18 July 2018
How will Turkey's foreign policy change under the new system? On July 9, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in as Turkey's first elected president with executive powers. His outright victory in the first round of the June [...]
Zeynep Koc 
Fatih Şemsettin Işık | 07 July 2018
How Turkish democracy is a welcome change for Syrian refugees "Citizenship means participating in the elections in a country and contributing to that country," said Joud Omar, a nine-year-old Syrian girl who has been living [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 19 June 2018
As the international community drags its feet and consistently fails to find diplomatic solutions to Yemen's conflict, its population is dragged deeper into a humanitarian crisis with no end in sight. After initial diplomatic failure [...]
Tamer Badawi | 23 May 2018
At a time when its economic interests are threatened both by Saudi Arabia’s attempts to develop economic cooperation with Iraq and the likelihood of renewed sanctions following the U.S. withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran is [...]
Galip Dalay | 21 May 2018
Ankara is traditionally wary of Tehran’s ambitions in its immediate neighbourhood. But despite experiencing occasional shifts, their relationship has long been relatively stable. Since neither country views the other as posing an existential threat – [...]
Galip Dalay | 21 February 2018
As many experts have pointed out, the Russian-backed Astana process, rather than leading to a reign of peace, presented the opportunity for the Syrian government to redesign and restructure the conflict in its favour. Putting [...]
