US-Russian Relations and Syria
Foes in the Ukrainian crisis, allies in the Iran Nuclear Deal and Syrian conflict: The relations between the U.S. and Russia are the greatest symbols of the paradigm-realism allowing states to look at the world with an ego
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Turkey In the Global Pecking Order
The general elections on Nov. 1 come at a critical juncture in which Turkey's position in the global pecking order as the rotating president of the G20 would be put to a stringent test. A re-injection of political stability might alleviate many systemic risks and turn around gloomy expectations concerning the country's prospects.
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Mr. Putin is planning to showcase his military's power in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
After realizing that joining the anti-Erdoğan bloc with opposition parties would legitimize its presence, the PKK, by doing so, created itself a very large and comfortable zone to easily terrorize
Despite all of its efforts to launch an active integration with the West, China's bad reputation regarding its treatment to the Muslim community in the Xinjiang Region grows bolder.
An ancient Chinese saying goes May you live in interesting times which, could describe the dramatic developments that we witnessed this week concerning two key political figures from Egypt and Turkey, former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and longtime Turkish politician Süleyman Demirel.
Turkey: Coalition Government Versus Early Elections
Since the AK Party has failed to secure majority in Parliament allowing the party to form a single-party government, various coalition scenarios are on the table now to determine Turkey's future politics.
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The Inevitability of System Change in Turkey
There will be no major impact on the relations between Turkey and Europe because Turkey will still be a democratic country with a democratically elected leader.
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Last week, Erdoğan attended a conference on Turkey's transition to presidentialism at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) and stressed that the political leadership was "addressing issues that the Ottoman-Turkish modernization project had ignored for two centuries to build the system of government anew."
The continuous military interventions over the last 60 years of Turkish democracy have left a series of different victims of coups. The destructive and bloody aftermath of coups anywhere is always remembered as the darkest days of the countries' histories just as 1980 was one of the darkest years for Turkey
As an emerging power from the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey must be more visible in Latin America and we very likely will be.
In democratic regimes, how do political parties and leaders with prolonged tenures shelter themselves from the devastating effects of governing?
In order to preserve the warm atmosphere between Greece and Turkey, the two countries need to develop networks of social and cultural dialogue and strengthen economic cooperation.
Turkey will enjoy the opportunity to bring its own policy priorities as well as the priorities of developing countries across those areas to the attention of the leaderships of 20 major world economies.
The coming months will provide ample opportunity to examine and learn how competing political parties are planning to tackle the seemingly challenging task of higher education reform in Turkey.
