Artificial Intelligence’s Sentience: Why Is It a Big Deal?
To say the machine may be sentient is to raise a red flag, not demean human existence.
Politics
Who Will Turkey’s Kurds Vote For?
The electoral behavior of Turkey’s Kurds with regard to the AK Party and Erdogan vis a vis the HDP shows…
The Weakness of the Turkish Opposition
There are three interrelated weaknesses of the Turkish opposition: the lack of ideological inclusiveness, the lack of leadership, and the…
Why Will Anti-Erdoganism Bring Defeat to the Opposition?
Anti-Erdoganism is far from responding to societal demands and this makes it a poor idea in creating the largest and…
From Cooperation to Conflict: The UAE’s Deepening Crisis with Somalia and Djibouti
The crisis between the two countries reached its peak in April 2018, when Somalian security forces seized a UAE-owned plane…
The PKK’s Exploitation of Women: Assumptions vs. Realities
Although listed as a terror group by many Western states and Western-based institutions such as NATO and the European Union,…
First Elections for Turkey’s New System of Governance
To get a clear notion of what’s happening in Turkey, the following main points can be taken into consideration: First,…
What are Strategies of the Political Opposition in Snap Elections?
Overall, it should be emphasized that the political opposition in Turkey still suffer to decide on their strategy for the…
Who is Afraid of Early Elections?
The CHP chairman Kilicdaroglu does not seem to know yet if he will run himself as a candidate or nominate the names…
Is Erdogan the Condorcet Winner in Turkey?
Erdogan knows that he will win in any pairwise election and that is the reason why he presents the elections…
Why Does the Opposition in Turkey Fail to Win Elections?
The options before the opposition comes to be either to transform the secular-nationalist identity of its constituent in order to…
What Does the Snap Election Mean for Turkish Foreign Policy?
The strategic reasons behind the early election decision are multidimensional and it may influence current Turkish foreign and security policies.…
Sisi’s Re-Election and the Western Stance: How the West Failed in Egypt
While Egypt witnessed a guideline example of an undemocratic election process, the Western “democracies” such as the U.S. and the…
Germany’s Uncertain Military Revival
It’s a bit strange that Germany has positioned itself within the circle of militarily powerful Western circles in the form…
A Religion of Secularism?
Secularism, which turned into the official religion of the state with the 1905 French law on the Separation of the…
US Strikes do not Deliver a Syria Policy
President Trump has also given the message that he wants a U.S. pullout of Syria. Multiple priorities and conflicting rhetoric…
The Possible Outcomes of the Iyi Party-Felicity Party Alliance
Since there is a mismatch between the ideologies of the Iyi Party-Felicity Party-Democrat Party triumvirate, it will be difficult especially…
Who really wins elections? Politicians or data companies?
So what does Cambridge Analytica do exactly? One thing the company does is “data mining.” In this case, they’ve omitted…
The problem of minority representation in Europe
Interestingly however, the report emphasizes that descriptive representation (the number of Muslim MPs) does not directly equate to substantive representation…
