Category: Turkey and Neighbourhood

Remarks articulated last week by Hakan Şükür, a famous former football player and current parliamentary deputy, garnered widespread attention and reminded the public that there are ethnic Albanians living in...

The expression goes “history repeats itself,” but does it really? On Dec. 31, 1991, the USSR President and Soviet Communist Party Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev presented his resignation to the Soviet...

It is worth questioning the reasons why Turkish nationalists (both national socialists and conservatives) in Turkey are prone to deploying the military in dealing with minority and Kurdish issues and...

Last week the All Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues, held an event in Westminster. BY BARONESS HUSSEIN-ECE OBE | JULY 17, 2012 The meeting introduced a new concept where...

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...

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...

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....

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...