Syriza’s Spinning, but Nobody’s Buying
The Greek crisis is accelerating more rapidly than many anticipated. As CNN reports: Greek markets are tumbling after the European Central Bank raised the pressure on the country’s new anti-austerity...
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...
UNESCO as an Ethno-Political Entrepreneur: The Need for Emancipating LAVASH
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), more specifically the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, has recently decided that lavash is an intangible cultural...
Nongovernmental Humanitarianism In Turkey: The Quest For Internationalist Virtue
The last decade has been a golden age in the history of Turkey`s international humanitarian initiatives. Today, Turkey`s humanitarian aid organizations, both state institutions and civil society organizations, operate in...
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...
The Urban Regeneration Experience of the United Kingdom: Lessons for Turkey
by Dr. Fatih EREN Introduction The United Kingdom (UK) is the most experienced country regarding the theories, policies, strategies and practices of urban regenerations in the world. This study firstly...
Who is Eurasia? The Advent of Politics into Geography
One of the very first things I have learned after starting the school was “Turkey is a bridge between Europe and Asia.” This metaphor of “bridge” has been one of...
Interview with Dr. Kerem Oktem
By Ozgur Tufekci and Husrev Tabak | July 2012 Another Empire is based on the proceedings of a conference with the title “Turkey’s Foreign Policy in a changing world: Old alignments...
Interview with Ahmed Rashid: Changing Balances in South Asia and Turkey between East and West*
By Aksel Ersoy | 01 April 2010 Ahmed Rashid is an award-winning journalist and one of the world's foremost experts on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban. Christopher Hitchens described him as...