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.
Opinion
Reforming the UN Security Council: A Global Necessity
As one of the founding members of the UN, Turkey will continue to keep the UN at the center of…
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…
Istanbul and Contemporary Islamic Art
The notion of Contemporary Islamic Art is challenging for many people. For some the very word ‘Contemporary’ has certain connotations…
Social Polarisation in Turkey: Myth or Reality?
Whatever the current tensions in the political sphere are, Turkish society is not being torn apart on the basis of…
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…
Ms. Marvel Fighting Orientalism
Ms. Marvel is a step in the right direction. It is an important example of positive representation that has the…
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…
Diyanet Center of America: An Architectural Quest for Identity
A visitor of the Diyanet Center in Maryland notes that the mosque is already filled with Muslims from various backgrounds,…
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…
