Al Sharq Strategic Research | 07 December 2016
Event Description: Envisioning a Post-Crisis Regional Order in the Sharq Region, organised by Al Sharq Forum, took place in Istanbul at Swissotel the Bosphorus on Oct 8-9, 2016. The event brought together over 90 experts, [...]
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 | 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 | 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 [...]
Basheer Nafi | 23 August 2016 | AR
The introduction of the European state model and collapse of the Ottoman Empire, not Islam, is at the root of regional violence today When we talk about the roots of political Islam, we can look [...]
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 [...]
Basheer Nafi | 07 August 2016 | AR
From the ashes of the failed coup and a century of state soul searching, Turkey must use this moment to redefine itself once again. Before the start of the annual gathering of Turkey's Military Consultative [...]
Galip Dalay | 18 July 2016
When people of all persuasions stood against it, they turned a dark night into a bright morning for Turkish democracy. Now that the people have defeated this coup attempt, the politicians should remain vigilant and [...]
Basheer Nafi | 17 July 2016
Iran's tension with its Arab neighbours won't be ending any time soon The Iranian regional project is no longer just a geopolitical project but an ideological one too The dispute between Iran and most of [...]
