It is the requirement of rational politics for Turkey to have economic and political cooperation with all countries, notably with her neighbors.

We must realise that Sharon is only one face - albeit all-encompassing of the same persistent calamity: Israeli apartheid and colonisation.

The most striking characteristic of the last five years is the “Erdoğan momentum” that has developed a constituent politics and created significant structural turning points when impasses occur.

Following the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al Assad, who has violated all the red lines in international politics, the US and others have started to discuss a possible military intervention in Syria, but this is mostly because they have concerns about maintaining the legitimacy of the international system.

The votes to the Alliance for Employment, Prosperity and Integration led by the Democratic Party (DP) of Albania remaining around 40 percent mean that the 2-term PD ruling is soon to end in the country.

The 2013 local elections in Iraq give an idea about the general elections to be held in 2014 in terms of both the results and the alliances to be formed.

The AK Party, as the author of many firsts in the resolution of the Kurdish issue, has taken a huge lead over other parties.

Judging from the scene revealed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the paradigm has bankrupted and the transition to a new order has already begun since the world of friends and enemies who stood by the tutelage regime for years is totally confused now.

Erdoğan carried the country away from an undeclared bankruptcy into a great transformation in 10 years.

The last thing Turkey desires should be the entrapment of the solution process similar to that of Kirkuk’s.

The message of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan promises, with its most general terms, a quite different world from the 30-year-old clichés.

Öcalan becomes the first PKK actor who sees the “disarmament of the PKK” during the solution process not as a matter of choice but a necessity.

The AK Party makes the understanding the pillar of its policy that the status quo which maintains no-solution as its foundation can no longer be maintained.

Israel lost its zero sum game and Palestine emerged as the winner. As long as Israel doesn’t pursue a win-win strategy, it will be doomed to be a loser.

The transformation of peaceful protesters into armed revolutionaries was triggered not by choice, but by necessity and obligation.

The practice of universal suffrage in Egypt, without limitations on gender and ethnicity, is a hopeful sign for the region.”

The withdrawal seemed to be an achievement of the Palestinians and a positive step towards peace by the Israelis.