Walter Posch | 04 March 2017 | AR | TR
Iran is a key player at the heart of the most pressing questions of today’s Middle East, including Syria, Iraq, and the Kurdish issue. This being said
Galip Dalay | 03 March 2017
Three radically different judgments have been made about the nature of Turkish foreign policy in recent years. It was described ideologically-driven
Leonid M. Issaev | 02 March 2017 | AR | TR
Orthodox Christianity arguably constitutes the foundation of the entire Russian cultural spectrum. The majority of Russians feel close to the eastern Christian tradition and identify with it to varying degrees.
Yury Barmin | 24 February 2017 | AR | TR
Against the backdrop of instability in the global energy industry, Moscow is seeking to consolidate its share of the oil and gas markets as well as ensure that its revenue stream from the oil trade does not thin out.
Mesut Ozcan | 17 February 2017 | TR
A new U.S. president means a new foreign policy for the world. With the election of Donald Trump as president, his priorities and diplomatic style will have its effect on different parts of the world, including the Middle East and Iraq.
Muhanad Seloom | 15 February 2017 | TR
There is a narrative often told by Iraqi politicians and commentators that Arab Sunnis have excluded themselves from politics by boycotting the post-2003
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 [...]
Abdullah Yegin | 16 January 2017 | AR
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of Iran’s most important political actors and a man who took on crucial roles at some of the most critical times from the 1979 Islamic revolution to the present day, has passed away from a heart attack at the age of 82. Despite his advanced years, Rafsanjani’s death was not an expected development, and came as a shock to the
Mesut Ozcan | 16 January 2017 | AR | TR
After critical statements were exchanged between Turkish and Iraqi politicians over the last quarter of 2016, the New Year began with the visit of a Turkish delegation to Baghdad and Erbil led by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım.
Muhanad Seloom | 09 January 2017 | TR
Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, U.S. State Department officials have often observed that Arab Sunnis do not have arepresentative leadership in the way the Shia in Iraq do. Almost all Arab Shia in Iraq answer to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shia religious authority in Iraq
