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Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Equation

Opinion
While gas producers elsewhere in the world, especially in Africa and America, are already capitalizing on exports, the players in the eastern Mediterranean that announced multiple discoveries in the last decade and which began modest production, are still yet to join the club of gas producers across the world.

What’s Next For Israel After the Elections?

Opinion
” The Trump administration gave precious gifts to Netanyahu, who thanked Trump’s “tremendous support” for Israel, including the Golan recognition, and his stance against the Iranian regime, including his decision to place the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on America’s terrorist blacklist.

R.I.P. Julian Assange: The Annoying Australian Will Be Quite a Catch for Trump

Opinion
But what have we learnt from it, what is really driving it and should we be concerned about its implications towards press freedom – not only in the west but around the world? Cynical hacks in the press room, long in tooth, always grumbled that it was only a matter of time before America punished Assange for the incendiary trove of highly sensitive intelligence which compromised the safety of U.

Arab Emancipation and the Liberation of Palestine

Opinion
Ironically, opposition to the Balfour Declaration in 1917 came from the only Jewish member of the cabinet Edwin Montagu, secretary of state for India who, like other anti-Zionists politicians of the time, feared that British-sponsored Zionism would threaten the status of Jews who had settled in various European and American cities and also encourage anti-Semitic violence in the countries battling Britain in the war, especially within the Ottoman Empire.

Is China Buying Out Africa?

Opinion
In particular, the Trump administration has significantly retreated from global affairs, including the African continent, by focusing on domestic economic recovery in the framework of the ‘America first’ motto.

Jacinda Ardern and the World’s Muslims

Column
Just like the time when philosopher Elizabeth Badinter said that those designing clothes for Muslim women are not French and called to boycott a number of British, Italian and American brands, saying shamelessly in an interview, “don’t be afraid to be called Islamophobic.

The European Parliament Seeks the Medieval Age in Hagia Sophia

Column
We learned about one of the most original manifestations of this curiosity from historian and writer Murat Bardakçı a while ago: “American Jazz Orchestras Association applied to Turkey in December 1926 and offered to turn Hagia Sophia, which was serving as a mosque at the time, into the world’s largest jazz club and promised to bring the world’s greatest jazz orchestras and strongest saxophones to Hagia Sophia.