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[OPINION] Erdoğan scores a win in Turkish Cypriot presidential election

Cevheri Güven Turkish-backed Prime Minister Ersin Tatar has won out over internationally supported President Mustafa Akıncı in the presidential election in the Turkish Republic of Northern...

60 jurists sign joint letter to address Turkey’s detention of lawyers

Sixty jurists issued a letter on the detention of dozens of lawyers in police raids on Tuesday. The letter is as follows: On the detention of...

[OPINION] US Isolationism Leads to Globalization of Conflicts and Endless Wars

By Irina Tsukerman* August 30, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In recent years, the common refrain that US involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts is costly, counterproductive, and...

[OPINION] Demonization of the Gülen movement unfair and baseless

Prof. Mehmet Efe Çaman The Gülen movement is one of two marginalized groups in present-day Turkey along with the with Kurds. However, the situation was...

[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 their roles poorly. It...

[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 future belongs to patriots,...

[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 delivered and stationed somewhere...

[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 persuaded the Supreme Election Board...

[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 who climbed all the...

[OPINION] Who is behind Erdoğan?

Mehmet Efe Çaman When the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, some soldiers in the Turkish military thought Ankara...

[OPINION] The time has come for a new EU strategy for Turkey

Mehmet Efe Çaman COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION, two carrots of the European Union, are considered influential and effective policy tools that enable the transformation of candidate and associated...

[OPINION] What Ankara’s Kurdish policy in Syria reveals about Turkey’s regime

To better understand Turkey’s Syria policy, particularly toward Syrian Kurds, we must look at historic events. And to better understand Turkey’s current regime, we...

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