Syria in between ideological politics and reel politik
The Arab Gulf countries have caused the prolongation of the Baath regimes life by not providing strong support to the Syrian opposition and by instigating segregations.
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The Kashgar Incident and China's Uyghur Question
The increasing timidity of Western democracies to pursue the principle of responsibility to protect at an international level is leaving the Chinese government with the freedom to oppress .
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The last thing Turkey desires should be the entrapment of the solution process similar to that of Kirkuks.
The economic transformation in the region will enable effective use of regional resources and ensure sustainable peace and environment of trust.
A far-right party, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), owes its post-1980 existence to a great extent to the Kurdish issue and the terrorist acts of the PKK.
If the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) believes that a withdrawal to Kandil only will be sufficient, the other phases of the solution process may be put into practice arduously.
As PKK Retreats From Turkey
Öcalan has recognized the fact that Turkeys democratic consolidation would be delayed as long as the PKK continued to hold arms.
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Turkey's Somalia Policy Aims to Ease Regional Tensions
Some Western nations, including the United States, are likely to be irked by a Turkey that intensifies its Somalia policy and takes other steps with the aim of restoring area balances, but that is the only way in which Turkey could contribute to bringing durable peace.
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As the parties take a political-stress-test in the solution process, all of the actors who fail to play a founding-role will have to suffer structural fractures, independently of the survival or success of the process.
The dynamics of the current political climate in Turkey, which make impossible to create a new Constitution based on consensus among political parties, can be discussed under three headings.
It seems that with the PKKs disarmament these political positions will have to disarm politically.
With the occupation in Iraq, the primitive Middle Eastern eco-system, and with the Arab revolts, the Camp David order collapsed. The new regional order is being rapidly shaped by the new actors at the cost of the century-old status quo.
