Why Did Turkey Ratify Finland’s but Not Sweden’s NATO Bid?
If Sweden, like Finland, abides by Turkey’s red lines, it also can achieve a tangible gain on the way to NATO membership.
Opinion
Who Will Shape the Politics of Singapore?
Changes occurring in Singapore’s political realm should not be evaluated alone but should be taken into consideration with regional and…
Turkey’s National Energy Policies in 5 Questions
The success of projects such as TANAP and TurkAkım may be accepted as a reference point regarding Turkey’s potential as…
Is the UK Wrong for Stripping ex-ISIS Bride of Citizenship?
Begum’s UK citizenship annulment may seem racist and even be illegal. But it’s the least ‘extremist’ of much needed measures…
How the Egypt’s Judiciary is Aiding the Sisi Regime to Maintain its Oppression
Since Sisi assumed power, the Egyptian judiciary has served to legitimate and facilitate the authoritarian rule. Other than a feigned…
The US-Iran Rivalry in Iraq May Cause Another Popular Uprising
The U.S. administration has two options in Iraq: either to back track Trump’s harsh rhetoric on Iran and Iraq and…
Anti-Refugee Sentiment Ahead of Turkey’s Local Elections
In the run up to the local elections to be held on March 31, anti-refugee rhetoric targeting Syrian refugees have…
Cyprus in the Midst of Shifting Tides in the Mediterranean Gas Competition
At the expense of the Turkish Cypriots, a group of seven European Union member states declared their support for the…
Between Rock and a Hard Place: The Armed Syrian Opposition In Idlib
Under current circumstances, the Syrian opposition remains weak in their disunity and seem incapable of getting rid of HTS. In…
Assad’s Comeback? A Lebanese Perspective
Lebanon fears the return of the Assad regime to the regional and international arena, and thus its old influence on…
Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia: Bandwagon or Hegemony?
Addis Ababa welcomes foreign financial and technical supports, as well as investment and job opportunities for the sake of a…
How the European Union Continues to Generate Poverty and Migration in Africa
The CFA franc and the way in which Western corporations exploit Africa are at the root of the immigrant crisis.…
Turkey Charts an Independent Foreign Policy
Developments in northern Syria seem to be heading in the right direction, i.e. towards the creation of a deep security…
China’s Zouchuqu Policy and Turkey-Pakistan Economic Relations
Urging Turkish investors to start working from now to benefit from the immense opportunities that will come from the China-led…
Sputnik Türkiye: The Voice of Moscow?
Views on Sputnik expressed both in Turkey and Western countries must be interpreted as reviews made on the new link…
The Exchange of Threats on the Opposite Side of the Taiwan Strait
No doubt that China, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, yearns to fulfill political advancement in the form of unification…
How Cheap Drones Became Assets for Terrorist Organizations
The use of drones became popular among terrorist organizations as soon as the security vulnerability they contained was discovered. The…
Tunisia in a Predicament: Echoes of the Tunisian Revolution Lingering
Blaise’s aphorism that ‘frustration at that failure has no more gruesome expression than Tunisia’s tide of self-immolations’ (Blaise, Self-Immolation, Catalyst…
America’s MESA Delusion
The idea of forming a strategic alliance in the Middle East (MESA) is not new. It came under many labels…
