Is the Spirit of Sykes-Picot Still Alive in the Middle East after a Century?
On 16 May, 1916, the famous Sykes-Picot agreement was signed secretly between the United Kingdom and France.
Going Back to the Origins: Change and Continuity in Egyptian Society
Faruk Yaslıçimen interviewed with the director of the Yunus Emre Institute in Cairo and talked about Egyptian society.
Is Normalization Possible in Turkish-Egyptian Relations?
Turkish-Egyptian relations have been in a severe crisis since the military coup in Egypt in 2013.
Turkey and Egypt: Towards a Normalization?
The debate surrounding relations between Turkey and Egypt is on the rise largely because of a series of political maneuverings and actions that have taken place in the last few weeks.
Between the Privilege of Committing Crime and Political Freedoms: Parliamentary Immunities in Turkey
Parliamentary immunity has always been one of the critical topics of political and legal discussions in Turkey.
Istanbul and Contemporary Islamic Art
The term ‘Contemporary Art’ refers to art being produced now and using a variety of forms, styles and media.
Social Polarisation in Turkey: Myth or Reality?
A brief look into the international and domestic media coverage on Turkey, as well as the academic debate, in recent years reveals a rather bleak picture of a country divided along several fault lines, namely the seculars vs.
OIC Economy: In Search of a Concrete Solidarity
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was founded with the aim of collaborating on international political problems concerning the Muslim World.
Inflation Targeting and Its Limitations
With the collapse of the so-called Bretton Woods system—the thirty-year international economic structure—in the tumultuous decade of the 1970s and with the rise of the neoliberal ideology in the 1980s, a new consensus emerged in the economics profession.
PKK’s Syria Branch PYD: A Violent Non-State Actor and its Controversial Legitimacy
ounded by the PKK terrorist organization in 2003, PYD developed into a critical actor in Syria after 2011.
Diyanet Center of America: An Architectural Quest for Identity
urkey has been witnessing proliferation of the traditional architectural forms as the country reconciles with its Ottoman past.
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.
On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Ethnicity Regimes
The Middle East is going through difficult times once more in the region’s history.
Economic Governance and Central Banking after the Crisis: Between Strategic Planning and Liberalism
Retrospectively speaking, it would not be a gross exaggeration to state that the “long twentieth century” witnessed profound developments that radically shattered trust in global capitalism as a stable system of resource allocation, as well as the capacity of the interstate system to provide it with a robust administrative framework.
1982 Constitution and the Politics in the Grip of Bureaucratic Tutelage
he 1982 Constitution and the Limits of Politics
As the determinants of the legal norms forming a state a constitution provide the main references to regulate state agencies and draw a general frame for the fundamental rights and duties of all.
Russia in Syria
he Syrian crisis is in its fifth year and there is still no workable solution in sight.
Why “November 13th” can not and should not become a French “9/11”
ollowing the coordinated terrorist attacks in which 130 people were killed in Paris on November 13th, many observers (including politicians) declared that France was going through its own “9/11”.
Downing of the Russian Jet, the Syrian Civil War and Turkish-Russian Relations
he shooting down of a Russian bomber aircraft by the Turkish Air Force in November 24, 2015 near the Syrian border represents the nadir of Turkish-Russian relations since the turn of the 21st century.
