Saudi and Emirati Pivot to Russia and China: Shift of Axis or Extreme Hedging?
The million-dollar question is whether Saudi and Emirati alignment with Russia and China presents a real shift in their relations with the United States.
Opinion
Can Tension Over Lifestyle Debates in Turkey Explain Terrorism?
Seculars and conservatives experience and discover one another. Both are being diversified, intertwined and transformed. This unique relationship of secularism…
Why Turkey Does Not Have a Real Opposition Party
The post-2002 period figures as the acceleration of Turkey’s evolution into a total state. This fundamental transformation in state-society relations…
World’s New Financial Hub: Istanbul
Turkey is at the forefront of countries in terms of international investment and capital movements and wants to establish an…
2016 Facebook Transparency Report and Turkey
Despite harsh criticism against Turkey in the previous years for restricting the freedom of expression in social media and thus…
Democratization of the Republic through Presidentialism
The current constitutional reform in Turkey puts a premium on democratic politics in the face of extra-political forces and pushes…
Turkey Steps Up Counter-Cyber Attack Efforts
According to a report published by Fortinet in August 2016, Turkey placed in the list of top five countries experiencing…
The Gülen Cult, between Modernism and Narcissism
Our experiences show that resorting to violence or committing massacres are not confined to a terrorist organization which emerged from…
The PKK’s Child Soldiers
The PKK counts thousands of child soldiers among its ranks of fighters, and they are often forced or coerced into…
Checks and Balances in the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of Turkey
The Turkish Presidential System, which is the center of the proposed amendment, puts limits on the powers of the president…
How Terror Organizations in Turkey Instrumentalize Social Media
Defending everything in the name of freedom of press blindly and carelessly no matter what human and state security requires,…
What’s Next for the Turkish Lira?
In fact, it is very hard for the currency to stay where it is now. (Indeed, it decreased sharply from…
Sino-Soviet Split Redux under President Trump?
There is reason to suspect that we are on the verge of the most significant change in U.S. grand strategy…
Turkish NGOs Facing the Refugee Crisis
Providing access to education ought to be the main target for international organizations, and that can only be achieved by…
How the Global and Turkish Economy will appear in 2017
After a tough year in 2016 everyone wants to be optimistic about this year. Although there are still some uncertainties,…
Diyarbakır: How far from Normalization?
Actually at this point, Kurdish youth need to have a new dialogue without any type of violence or hatred. What…
The Collapse of the HDP’s Politics
Perhaps many of the Kurds have not yet spoken aloud, but the clear majority has deeply buried the PKK in…
Questions Remain Unanswered as the PKK Enjoys Full Freedom in Europe
Europeans need to come to their senses and think again. Just because the PKK or the DHKP-C are secularists, does…
Will Trump Deliver on His Protectionist Economic Pledges?
To be sure, Trump is not the first U.S. presidential candidate who fed his campaign with a nationalist trade agenda.…
