The Rise of Secular Radicalization and the PKK
The PKK’s perspective, here, always advertises the argument that ‘the ethnic movement is targeted as a whole’ in relation to the regional-scale fracture caused by the Syrian crisis.
Turkey’s New Economic Challenges under the New Normal
The adaptation of a multidimensional foreign policy had increased Turkey’s economic cooperation with its neighbor countries (Russia, Syria, Iraq and Iran).
The Troubling Legacy of the Sykes-Picot: A Century-Old Chaos in the Arab Middle East
Eventually, the newly created Iraq and Jordan, alongside Palestine were put under British rule, whereas Syria and the newly created Lebanon (and parts of southern Anatolia) were given to the French.
Sykes-Picot: The Symbol of Western Imperialism in the Middle East
For instance, the US and Russia initiated a secret negotiation process to try to manage the Syrian Crisis by excluding related regional states such as Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Is the Spirit of Sykes-Picot Still Alive in the Middle East after a Century?
Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen seem to be failed projects in terms of state-making and maintenance, as the mismatches between the social fabrics and the political structures of these political entities has generated deep grievances over the century.
Is Normalization Possible in Turkish-Egyptian Relations?
Riyadh is one of Turkey’s most important allies in some of Ankara’s foreign policy actions, particularly in Syria and Iraq, and more broadly in its competition with Iran.
The 2016 Elections in Iran
The country seemed to many a monolithic body which, say, pursued harmonious policies to preserve its strongholds in Iraq or Syria or conducted painstaking talks over its nuclear question.
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Since then, the situation in Idlib has relatively calmed down and the joint Syrian-Turkish military operation against the YPG has redirected the focus of the world to northeast Syria.
Reforming the UN Security Council: A Global Necessity
They target not only the issue of representativeness, but also the Security Council’s failure to respond effectively to humanitarian crises like the recent debacle in Syria.
On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes
Currently, the Syrian crisis is in its fifth year and there is little hope, if any, for a viable solution in the near future.
ISIL: Horror and Terror Revisited
Subsequently, the group changed its name to the Islamic State of Iraq and to Levant/Syria-ISIL/ISIS.
Turkey’s Settlement Process: Back to the Original Positions?
PKK leadership has two new block-partners in this new war: on the one hand, the Russians, the Iranians and the Assad regime through the PKK’s Syrian branch, the PYD, and, on the other, the military support of the US who saw the PYD as a substitute power for its own soldiers in the field war against IS.
How the PKK Declined Peace Opportunities since Abdallah Ocalan’s 2013 Call
The bodies of four People's Protection Units (YPG) members, who were killed in the clashes in Syria's Kobani and Iraq's Shingal regions, were transferred from Habur to Cizre.
