From institutional autonomy to partisan decay: Turkey’s foreign service and the 2016 coup as...
Ali Dinçer*
The failed military coup of July 2016, or the Turkish government’s disproportionate response to it, has made the incident...
[Opinion] Erdoğan’s self-coup continues
Türkmen Terzi
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, the Republic of Turkey is...
The İstanbul canal project: realigning the global balance of power
Türkmen Terzi
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took the first step toward the realization of the highly controversial Canal Istanbul project,...
[Opinion] How did Turkey become a safe haven for money launderers?
Sevgi Akarçeşme
There’s not a single week that Turkey isn’t rattled by a new scandal. So much so that the country...
[Opinion] Turkey’s role in Afghanistan and the Greater Central Asia strategy
Türkmen Terzi
US troops and allied forces are scheduled to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by mid-July 2021, concluding what will have...
[Opinion] Why are Turks praying for the well-being of a mobster?
Sevgi Akarçeşme
On Sunday June 13, a significant number of Twitter users following Turkey were worried about the whereabouts and well-being...
[Opinion] Turkey increases military presence in Iraq amid Kurdish infighting
Türkmen Terzi
As the world’s largest stateless nation, Kurds have struggled for a century in pursuit of an independent state on...
[OPINION] The ‘execution’ of justice in Turkey
Mehmet Tahsin
A terrible play had a two-week run at the Turkish
parliament. The speaker of parliament, the justice minister and deputies
performed...
[OPINION] Third world war?
Ekrem Dumanlı
US President Donald Trump, in his latest United
Nations speech, implied the biggest fight of our century. According to Trump,
“The...
[OPINION] Why is Russia the winner in the S-400 crisis?
Mehmet Efe Çaman
You do not have to be a
weapons expert to understand that the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles
that will be...
[OPINION] The future of Erdoğan and the Kurdish vote
Ekrem Dumanlı
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party,
unable to accept losing the İstanbul mayoral election on March 31, finally...
[OPINION] Ardern and Erdoğan: The difference between greatness and partisanship
Ekrem
Dumanlı
Politics
is like a ladder that consists of four steps. On every step, a politician
should pause and mature. If a politician...