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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...
PKK vs. Turkey: Brothers of Nihilism and Non-empathy
Abdullah Ocalan was a member of a Marxist Kurdish movement. Initially, he disseminated opinions of social injustice within Kurdish identity and used the grievances...
Israel and the war in Syria
There is fundamental point which needs to be studied carefully: the war in Syria - after the entry of the Russian Federation into the...
Anxiety in Ankara: Assassination, Geopolitics, and Democracy in Turkey
On December 19, 2016, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, an off-duty police officer, in Ankara during...
The “ceasefire” in Syria
The previous two Syrian "ceasefires" of February and September last were substantial failures. Mediated by too diverging interests, they were bogged down in a...
Aleppo:A Global Village of Idiots
"Aleppo” as a term has become something of a buzz word in the West that is still full of ignorance: while many have heard...
Pipelines or Pipe Dreams? Turkey’s Role in Future European Energy Policy
T urkey demonstrates obvious and unique geostrategic significance for the Euro-Atlantic community and as an influential player at the center of Western...
Turkey’s Independence Struggle
W e are witnessing terrorist organizations using a tool in the war between countries. Turkey has been fighting PKK terrorist organization for...