Wednesday, 9 October , 2024

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The house always wins: A take on Turkey’s elections

by Abdullah Bozkurt May 14, 2023 No matter the results of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, nefarious, anti-democratic and unaccountable factions entrenched in Turkish institutions and...

Erdogan could not Islamize minds, so he is Islamizing stones instead’

Ezgi Başaran writes: French political scientist Professor Olivier Roy, who, since the mid-‘90s, has argued that the Islamist project has failed, says Atatürk’s secularism...

Erdogan dedicates Turkish island project to hanged idol

Turkey’s president says the island of Yassiada may become a Turkish Camp David, while critics slam the destruction of the landscape and archaeological heritage By...

It’s time for Turkey and NATO to go their separate ways

By Michael Rubin August 16, 2018 “If the internal stress in the U.S. goes on like this, the possibility of another 9/11 is not all that...

What Erdogan’s Big Victory in Turkish Elections Means

By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR 25.06.2018 Democratic elections often produce strange outcomes. India’s present government won just 31% of the votes polled in the 2019 parliamentary poll, which...

Turkey’s Looming Crisis

by Conn Hallinan December 22, 2017 Viewed one way, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks unassailable: He weathered last year’s coup attempt, jailed more than 50,000...

Former CIA officer says US policies helped create IS

Published in www.al-monitor.com American Graham Fuller emphasized that the West, including the United States, has now accepted that the Assad government will retain power....

How did Erdogan “win” the referendum?

By Hamid Alizadeh  Recep Tayyib Erdogan officially won the YES vote in Turkey’s referendum. But what was the character of his victory and what does...

Great Maneuvers around Syria, Turkey and the Kurds

Russia, Turkey and Iran sign memorandum on de-escalation zones in Syria Russia, Turkey and Iran have signed a memorandum on setting up de-escalation zones in...

Turkey, Let Us Not Celebrate Yet!

So many would like this to happen – to see Turkey go, to leave NATO, to break its psychological, political and economic dependency on the West. Now that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his allies are quarreling with the United States and the EU, there is suddenly great hope that Turkey may thoroughly re-think its position in the world, strengthen its ties