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Turkey’s Future at Stake
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon find himself with a raft of sweeping powers as his party pushes for a far-reaching law...
The Cyprus conundrum- it ain’t over till it’s over
F ifty percent of all worldwide peace agreements fail within five years of being signed , the rate of relapse worsening, year in,...
Turkey’s Crippled Counterterrorist Capacity: How Domestic Purges Represent an International Threat to Europe’s Security
T urkey has been suffering from terrorism for a long time, losing over 40,000 people in the last 40 years. When the Syrian...
Turkey and Russia Find Common Ground While War in Syria Keeps Raging
T he Syrian civil war has been raging for close to six years, fueled by a tangled web of alliances, the regional ambitions...
Considerations on the East Turkestan – Xinjiang issue
X injiang’s demographic and anthropic complexion is more complex than we tend to currently believe: according to China's 2000 census-taking, 40% of the...
‘Alternative Facts’ and Forced Migration: America, Muslim Countries, and the Refugee Crisis
There is an awful lot of emotional kvetching around the recent Trump executive order about banning entry to people from seven specific countries to...
The Programmable Diplomatic Kill Switch
If indeed “War is a mere continuation of policy with other means” the metaphoric kill switches that have made their way into strategic...
Turkey’s State of Emergency Decrees: A Matter of Life and Death for Erdogan or for Turkish Democracy?
Turkey has been ruled by a declared State of Emergency since the July 2016 coup attempt, allowing President Erdogan to consolidate additional powers and...
Cashing in on Counterterrorism: The Kuveyt-Turk Participation Bank Case
On June 13, St. Francis Assisi, a California-based nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, on behalf of Assyrian Christians, filed a complaint in the Northern District...
Central Asia: An Unlikely Source of Extremism
The New Year’s attack on the upscale Reina nightclub in central Istanbul that killed 39 and injured some 70 people is still under intense...