Turkish Natural Gas Hub and Energy Security
On the eve of World War I (WWI), Winston Churchill, as the first lord of the Admiralty, converted the Royal Navy from coal to oil. As a result, a shift...
Turkey’s Role in Somalia: A New Ally?
In what seems to be an extraordinary shift in its involvement in Africa, Turkey is fast becoming an ally – and international actor – in Somalia’s theater. BY ABDIHAKIM AYNTE...
Ankara Moves Closer to Washington: How the Arab Spring Warmed U.S.-Turkish Relations
U.S.-Turkish relations entered into a tumultuous period with the Iraq War in 2003. This difficult phase in bilateral ties appears to have ended with the beginning of the Arab Spring....
Contributing Factors to Less than Equitable Social and Economic Development in Eastern Turkey
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...
Can Turkey Really Be a Political Model for Its Region?
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...
Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement: Renewed Interest?
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...
The Arab Spring and Calls for a Turkey-EU Foreign Policy Dialogue
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...
Turkey, Iran and the Arab Uprisings: The Failure of Political Islam and Post-Ideological Politics
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...
PKK Violence Impacts Ankara Policymaking
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...
Turkish Monetary Policy: Playing Catch-up with Reality
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...
Turkey-Israel Relations: From Oslo to Flotilla
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...
Turkey’s 2023 Energy Vision in the Context of the ‘Game-Changing’ Dynamics in World Energy
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...
Turkey’s Syrian Conundrum
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...
What to Expect from Turkey’s New Secular Leadership?
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...
Don’t You Wake up the Greeks, but What about the Turks? Some Thoughts on ‘INDIGNANCE’ at Syntagma Square
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...