Is the Dollar’s Throne Shaky?
Although the dollar still reigns supreme today, the leading actors in the global system are aware that its dominance is waning.
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Turkey and Egypt: Towards a Normalization?
Turkish-Egyptian relations have been in crisis since the military coup that toppled the first democratically-elected president and government to come…
The 2016 Elections in Iran
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a clear message to friends and foes alike that Turkey is strictly against sectarian policies and denounced any…
What is Sectarian Politics?
Pro-sectarian politics is one of the most important obstacles to the development of a politics of cooperation in the Middle…
Turkey Debates Presidentialism: Lost in Translation?
Today, the AK Party strives to finalize this rationalization process by legalizing the de facto situation with a new constitution…
Between the Privilege of Committing Crime and Political Freedoms: Parliamentary Immunities in Turkey
The AK Party has opted for a collective regulation to remove the immunities of not just the above HDP members…
OIC Economy: In Search of a Concrete Solidarity
OIC countries like Turkey, which have diversified industries, have the potential to perform a critical role in leading investment and…
Inflation Targeting and Its Limitations
The world economy and the Turkish economy need not yet another version of IT regime, or unconventionalised monetary policy, but…
PKK’s Syria Branch PYD: A Violent Non-State Actor and its Controversial Legitimacy
Founded by the PKK terrorist organization in 2003, PYD developed into a critical actor in Syria after 2011. Currently led…
In Search of a New Central Banking Framework for Turkey
A monetary policy will be helpful in smoothing out fluctuations in prices and economic activity, but it cannot bring about…
Increasing Cooperation Between Ankara and Washington on the Syrian Issue: How About Revisiting the Safe Zone Idea?
Last week, just before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to the United States, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken…
The Geneva Talks and Syria in its Aftermath
The Geneva Talks held in order to find a diplomatic solution to the Syria problem failed as expected and attention…
Economic Governance and Central Banking after the Crisis: Between Strategic Planning and Liberalism
It would be a grave mistake to perceive attempts at “neo-planning in central banking” as exceptional aberrations from the neoliberal…
1982 Constitution and the Politics in the Grip of Bureaucratic Tutelage
These being the basic functions of a constitution, the Turkish Constitution of 1982 brought forth, since it came into force,…
Who Has the Right to Make a Constitution?
Notwithstanding the significance of debates around the content and the wording of a constitution the question of who has the…
Russia in Syria
In the last five years Russia has been a keen supporter of Bashar Assad and eventually, decided to intervene militarily…
ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited
ISIL is a modern phenomenon and it is in many ways not different from fascism or communism which for a…
Turkey’s Settlement Process: Back to the Original Positions?
The post-2013 process of settlement created a plural political environment conducive to the elaboration of all political options for the…
Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”
Donald Trump’s recent call to block all Muslim Foreigners from entering the United States is a disturbing sign that Islamophobia…
