Year: 2014

Whilst Turkey’s economy is growing at near equal pace with China’s, its eastern half is still not yet reaping the benefits of a prosperous economy to the same degree as...

From the outset of the ‘Arab Spring’, Turkey has pursued an active foreign policy and supported a number of recent popular uprisings throughout the Arab world. BY SEYED ALI ALAVI...

In Armenia, the January 12 2010 session of the Constitutional Court emphasized that Armenia will continue its effort to achieve international recognition of the 1915 events as genocide - and...

With Turkey’s urging for the Assad government to reform falling on deaf ears, Turkey raised the level of criticism, but still insisted that an orderly transition to democracy was the...

The Turkish brand of Islamism is well-suited to the post-ideological phase that the Middle East region is entering. It is also confirmation of the view that Olivier Roy enunciated 20-odd...

Written by DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY Friday, 28 October 2011 18:54 On October 22, a group of armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members crossed into Turkey from Iraq and killed twenty-four...

Written by AENGUS COLLINS Friday, 28 October 2011 06:01 And so the inevitable has come to pass. Turkey’s central bank has departed from its controversial commitment to a loose policy...

BY KADRI KAAN RENDA | 07.09.2011 Turkey is one of the states who recognized Israel shortly after its proclamation of independence in 1949. Up until the early 1990s Turkey-Israel relations...

BY MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ* | 19.08.2011 Imagine the world 12 years down the road – the world of 2023 which corresponds to the centenary of the founding of the Republic of...

BY AZEEM IBRAHIM** | 18.08.2011 Turkey's secular democracy is increasingly establishing itself as a fulcrum for East-West relations, notably as a bridge to Iran and Syria. Its pending application to...

BY DR. H. AKIN UNVER** | 08.06.2011     Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has been undergoing an important and profound transformation since May 2010, which began with the resignation of...

BY DR. BAŞAK ALPAN | 02.06.2011 ‘La Beaute est dans la Rue’ (‘the Beauty is in the Street’) Ernesto Laclau During the mid-May demonstrations in Spain where protesters of all...

BY PROF. ZIYA ONIS The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, the AKP) government’s foreign policy activism is not a new phenomenon. Yet, the changing nature of the...

BY AENGUS COLLINS | 20.04.2011 On June 12 Turkey’s electorate will go to the polls in the country’s 17th general election. In each of the last two elections, in 2002 and...

By Dr. H. Akin Unver and Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 04.04.2011 While the Turkish Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) record on democracy and foreign policy is less than perfectly in accord with...