Mesut Ozcan | 07 September 2017 | TR
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s announcement that it would hold a referendum on independence on September 25 this year has revived the Kurdish issue in Iraq amidst ongoing anti-ISIS operations.
Galip Dalay | 06 September 2017
Operating in Exile Has Hindered Their Effectiveness One of the more notable developments from the fight against the Islamic State (or ISIS) has been the emergence of a Kurdish public sphere in the Middle East. Since U.S. coalition [...]
Galip Dalay | 23 August 2017
By adopting a novel approach to fragmentation in the Middle East and North Africa, regional players may see the collapse of state unity as an opportunity for a new interconnected order It is now a [...]
Mohammad Affan | 23 August 2017 | TR
At its tenth national congress, Ennahda Movement Party declared that it will separate politics from preaching and transform itself into a national democratic party.
Huda Mzioudet | 11 August 2017
On January, 26, 2017, six Tunisians testified at the Truth and Dignity Commission in a public hearing session about the human rights abuses of the regime of Habib Bourguiba. The symbolic date marked the 39th [...]
Yury Barmin | 03 August 2017 | TR
With the conflict in Libya proving to be hard to resolve through U.N. mediation, outside powers, including Russia, see an opportunity to facilitate the settlement of the crisis and serve their own interests by doing so.
Hakkı Uygur | 31 July 2017
Turkish-Iranian relations have been propelled by their own dynamics along certain lines of stability, particularly over the last century. Among important turning points in their relations were the regime changes in both countries in the 1920s,
Basheer Nafi | 23 July 2017
The Arab League's silence over the Gulf crisis and inability to keep the GCC from splitting reflects a post-WWI regional order in its final throes If seen as a purely Arab affair, there is no [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 23 July 2017
It's not likely that the defeat of Daesh in Mosul is going to mean the end of the group itself. So long as the political conditions for radicalism and sympathy for Daesh's ideology exists, territorial [...]
Mesut Ozcan | 21 July 2017 | TR
The defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul represents an important turning point in the recent history of Iraq. Psychologically, the Abadi government will be emboldened by this event, but despite this success,
