Galip Dalay | 23 January 2018
On Saturday, Turkish jets bombed the Kurdish-majority province of Afrin in northwestern Syria. Alongside earlier artillery shelling of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) positions, the air bombing was only a prelude to the ground operation which began the following day. With this, Syria's highly complex [...]
Galip Dalay | 17 January 2018
What was previously depicted as a very strong relationship between Turkey and the Kurdistan region seems to have been no more than a fragile, transactional one Turkey's relationship with Iraqi Kurdistan has been a subject [...]
Amjad Atallah | 16 January 2018 | TR
Media organizations often maintain an inventory of updated obituaries to newsworthy public figures — just in case. Obituaries to an expired idea, like the partition of Israel and Palestine, are harder.
Tamer Badawi | 08 January 2018
Socioeconomic changes, largely stemming from President Hassan Rouhani’s economic policies since he took office, have had the biggest impact (among several factors) on driving and shaping the recent protests in Iran. The initial protests that [...]
Kamal Alam | 08 January 2018
In early December 2017, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced the formation of a new military alliance that would oversee all aspects of strategic military, political and [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 04 January 2018
With the immensely destructive impact of war in Syria wearing off, the Syrian regime has gained the upper hand in the country. The Syrian crisis, which started out as a national conflict, swiftly took on [...]
Leonid M. Issaev | 03 January 2018
The beginning of December was marked by Vladimir Putin taking a tour in the Middle East during which he held a meeting with the leaders of Turkey, Syria and Egypt. At the same time, Vladimir [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 01 January 2018
The lecture course will give participants an overview and analysis of one of the most fascinating parts of early modern European history: The Thirty Years War including the crises leading up to it, as well [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 01 January 2018
Nationalism has been one of the main dynamics that shaped the MENA region in the post WWI era. It fundamentally changed the political loyalties of the peoples in the region, and reshaped it around national [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 01 January 2018
Though the weakening of a military’s political influence is not a sufficient condition for democracy, it is a necessary condition. Democratic consolidation depends on, among other things, the manner in which political armies still interfere [...]
