Democratic Opening, Martyrs and Journalism
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...
Republic of Fear
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...
What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Coup Arrests?
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...
Ankara Seems Favouring Tehran in the Nuke Issue
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...
Cry, the Beloved Country: Haiti between Slavery and Imperialism[1]
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...
Turks vs. Kurds
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....
Closure of Soviet Concentration Camps Where ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ First Appeared Recalled
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...
Dangerous Violence: Turkey’s Emerging Ethnic Fault Line
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...
Life in an American Fourth Grade: Why One-Sided Indoctrination?
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...
Conservative globalists versus defensive nationalists: political parties and paradoxes of Europeanization in Turkey
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...
The Good Rapprochement: Why Obama Will Praise Erdogan
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...
Turkey’s Flip
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...
AKP Reshuffles Turkey’s Neighbors
Soner Cagaptay Turkey's ties with its neighbors have been transformed since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power almost seven years ago in November 2002. Some analysts have...
Seven Years of AKP Rule
Soner Cagaptay The rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), a party rooted in Turkey’s Islamist opposition, to government in 2002 introduced new social, political, and foreign policy...
Did 9/11 Really Bring About a Revolution in American Foreign Policy?
M. K. Tomiak The modern western world had never witnessed an attack on the US as profound, momentous and devastatingly spectacular as those of September 11 2001. Not only were...