A Very Sad Day for Europe: UK Opt to Leave European Union
The Brexit Referendum results - 51.9% for Leave and 48.1% to Remain - confirm the United Kingdom has decided to leave the European Union. Today’s results will have serious ramifications...
President of CESRAN International to Receive Top Peace Award in Washington
The President of CESRAN International, Professor Alp Ozerdem is to be honoured with one of Nigeria’s foremost peace awards at a ceremony in Washington. Alpaslan Özerdem will receive the International Peace...
CESRAN Reflections on Turkey’s June 7 Parliamentary Elections by Prof. Alp Özerdem
From 2002 onwards, the AK party won a majority in every Turkish election. Erdoğan always won comfortably, whether in national elections, local votes, or the more recent presidential one. However,...
Turkey Urgently Needs to Integrate Its Syrian Refugees
Since 2011, more than 3.2m Syrians are known to have taken refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and a number of other countries. The real scale of the crisis is...
Turkey is paying for decades of divisive politics as it fights to end its civil war
When armed conflict becomes a fact of everyday life, and generations grow up knowing nothing else, imagining life in a state of peace is hard work. The fragile state of...
Turkey bombs Kurdish forces as new wave of violence threatens to spill across borders
The ongoing humanitarian tragedy of Kobanê has raised serious questions about the future of the Kurds. The unstoppable advance of Islamic State (IS) over the last few months has already...
Turkey stuck at a crossroads as Islamic State terrorises Kobanê
Kobanê, a small Kurdish town on the Syrian-Turkish border, has now become the ultimate test of Turkey’s ambivalence on how to engage the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the rapidly...