More: Turkey
Once the backbone of Middle Eastern protests, ultras are down but not out
Ali Issa Ahmad, a British football fan, who was lingering earlier this
year in jail in the United Arab Emirates for wearing a Qatari soccer...
Assad, Putin’s green light for battle of Idlib
All eyes are on Idlib and the terrorist group’s fate there. Media are
reporting on massive preparations by the Syrian army and its dispatch to...
Turkey needs to step up investment in renewables to curb emissions
Turkey will see its greenhouse gas emissions continue their steady rise of recent years without concrete actions to improve energy efficiency and increase the...
The Lebanon, natural gas and local political equilibria
As can be easily foreseen, the huge amount of natural gas that is being discovered throughout the East Mediterranean region is bound to quickly...
Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence
In perhaps the most significant condemnation to date of China’s brutal crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its north-western province of Xinjiang. Turkey’s foreign ministry...
A struggle for rule of law: Detained Bahraini footballer catapults Thailand to centre stage
Mounting pressure on Thailand to release from detention soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi has not only refocussed international attention on alleged abuse of human rights...
The neo-Ottoman issue
Turkey is currently pursuing the following aims: 1) ​​becoming a Eurasian regional power; 2) later uniting all Turkmen ethnic groups from Anatolia to Xinjiang;...
Negotiations on Kosovo 2019: Opportunities and Limitations for Russia
Authors: Ekaterina Entina and Dejan Novakovic
In early 2018, negotiations on Kosovo seemed to be progressively moving towards their final stage. Brussels, in its turn,...
Syria’s Kurds: The new frontline in confronting Iran and Turkey
US President Donald J. Trump’s threat to devastate Turkey’s economy if Turkish troops attack Syrian Kurds allied with the United States in the wake...
The current situation in Syria
Syria is the great rotating platform of the Middle East. Paraphrasing the statement by Mackinder, the well-known British geopolitician of the early twentieth century,...