South African media questions Karadeniz Holding’s South Africa energy deal
Türkmen Terzi
A record 218 billion rand ($15 billion) energy contract between Karadeniz Holding, a Turkish energy company that owns and...
[Opinion] Turkey: from common heritage to security and mosque diplomacy in Central Asia
Türkmen Terzi
Following the dissolution of the communist Soviet Union, the leaders of Central Asia’s newly established states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,...
Sofagate: EU leaders get a taste of their own medicine
Ali Dinçer*
Last week EU Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen embarked on what they...
[OPINION] Has the CHP ever been democratic since Atatürk’s revolution?
Türkmen Terzi
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party, established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, has rarely...
[Opinion] How poverty came to Turkey
Türkmen Terzi
Turkey was never a country in which poverty came to mind.
However, the financial desperation of the Turkish public was...
From the coup to the Caucasus: the UK’s curious love affair with Turkey’s Erdoğan
Ali Dinçer
Before taking up residence at 10 Downing Street, Boris Johnson once famously won £1,000 prize for a poem he...
Can President Biden reunite Cyprus amid tensions?
Türkmen Terzi
During his election campaign US President Joe Biden released a “Vision of Greece” in which he committed to tackling...
Biden’s challenge with Erdoğan
Ali Dinçer*
It has been a month since Joe Biden was inaugurated as the new US president, following an election campaign...
Erdoğan demonizes Boğaziçi protestors over Islamic symbols like he did at Gezi Park
Serap Demir
When then-Turkish Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan realized in 2013 that İstanbul's Gezi protests had spread...
You robbed me of my workplace, Erdoğan. Take your hands off my university!
Opinion by Fatma Zeybek
When I saw the heavy police presence at İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University, where I had the opportunity...
Exiled journalist warns of a genocide in the making in newly released book
"The increasingly widespread witch-hunt, systematic and widespread hate speech, ongoing persecution and massacre of Gulen movement members have made conditions...
Destruction of the Turkish Central Bank’s independence explained
Turhan Bozkurt
The Central Bank of Turkey (TCMB) started losing its independence after Durmuş Yılmaz left the post of governor in...