Dr. Ahmet Yildiz | 09 March 2016
The KCK-PKK’s essentialism regarding Islam has long targeted sheikhs and aghas, the traditional loci of powers in the Kurdish environment.
Galip Dalay | 17 February 2016
Before the onset of the Arab uprisings, Turkey had a functionalist approach to the region. It prioritized economic integration over the push to open up politics, in the belief that deepening economic ties would inevitably have a political spillover.
Galip Dalay | 17 February 2016
The main motivation behind the Geneva III talks was to get a deal irrespective of whether this deal was fair and sustainable.
Galip Dalay | 21 January 2016
This attack appears intended at disrupting Turkey's tourism industry by depicting the country as unsafe.
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 26 December 2015
The Al Sharq Forum has inaugurated the first stage of the "Jewar" initiative by training 23 activists from 15 different countries in the Al Sharq region on "Social Peace and Reconciliation"
Galip Dalay | 26 December 2015
Turkey needs to strike a fine balance between establishing public order in PKK-occupied places and avoiding military overreaction.
Basheer Nafi | 23 December 2015
Turkey's past tussles with Russia offer no guarantee of similar outcomes today, while geopolitics, rather than history, also holds lessons for Egypt
Dimitar Bechev | 18 December 2015
Before the downing of the jet, Turkey failed to reap significant trade benefits from the Western sanctions on Russia.
Mesut Ozcan | 08 December 2015
With the increasing involvement of Russia in the Syrian conflict, relations between Turkey and Russia have also soured, and a bitter taste has been left with the recent downing of a jet. As Assad's regime has weakened, Russia has begun directly intervening in Syria and Turkey has begun interpreting the relationship between Russia and Syria as a return of the Cold War years. Russia’s involvement in regional conflicts in general and in Syria in particular led people to establish similarities with the 1950s, as it benefits from the chaos in the region and aims to fill the gap left by the disengagement of the US.. In those years, as a new member of the NATO alliance, Turkey was very concerned by the ideological and military connections between the Soviet Union and Syria. With the longevity of the conflict in Syria and increasing involvement of Russia, there is the danger of a similar scenario—possibly in a different form—emerging in Turkish-Syrian relations.
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 06 December 2015
More than 50 intellectuals, experts, activists and politicians gathered Saturday for the launch of the Common Action Forum, a Madrid-based NGO aimed at providing a research and development platform for ideas and practical steps to make political and international systems more fair and equal.
