CESRAN Int.

By Abdullah al- Ahsan** | 09 June 2010 More than a week has passed since Israeli armed forces butchered a number of peace activists in the Mediterranean who were carrying emergency supplies...

By James Traub | 09 June 2010 Let us now praise modest achievements. The U.N. review conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty concluded at the end of May with a 28-page document (pdf)...

By Prof. Ahmet Davutoglu | 01 June 2010 Preface   We, as members of CESRAN, attended the conference entitled “Turkey’s foreign policy in a changing world” held at the St Antony’s College...

By Cemil Cengiz | 01 June 2010 The leading political party of Turkey, AKP (Justice and Development Party) has launched a series of solutions to the problems concerning the Kurdish minority in...

By Soner Cagaptay | 12 March 2010   Last week's arrests in Turkey of dozens of high-ranking military officers mark the country's latest step toward authoritarianism. Neither Europe nor the United States...

Dr. Soner Cagaptay   25 February 2010   For the last several decades, the Turkish military was untouchable; no one dared to criticize the military or its top generals, lest they...

Mehmet Ali Birand 03/February/2010   I want to have your attention to some other issues today because we have had enough with the usual. Let me share you a matter...

The long history that ‘binds’ the US and Haiti together!   Bülent Gökay[2]   Tens of thousands of people in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince are dead and hundreds...

Soner Cagaptay Turkey's Kurdish problem, a long and bitter conflict, has taken a vicious new turn in recent weeks as ordinary Kurds and Turks have started fighting in the streets....

Paul Goble  The theft of the sign, “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which hung over the entrance to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz has not only sparked international outrage but also called...

Soner Cagaptay Rising social violence between Kurds and non-Kurds in Turkey, with daily incidents occurring, is an unusual, and therefore alarming, phenomenon.   This violence has been spurred as much...

Barry Rubin   As a liberal I am deeply concerned at the illiberal teachings of American public schools today, but what American children are being taught should not be a partisan issue. The...

Ziya Öniş  The period since the December 1999 Helsinki summit has been a time of remarkable economic and political change in Turkey. The EU impact was already evident in the...

Soner Cagaptay What will U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan discuss when they meet in the White House on Dec. 7?  There is going to...

Soner Cagaptay Turkey's ties with its neighbors have been transformed since the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, came to power seven years ago. Some analysts have described the AKP's...