Turkey and Shanghai Cooperation Organization

In line with its multidimensional foreign policy line in recent years, Ankara adopted an attitude of proactive engagement with major regional institutional organizations such as the Arab League, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the African Union.

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Turkey and Shanghai Cooperation Organization
China's Dubious Relationship With Islam

China's Dubious Relationship With Islam

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.

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Today, Turkey follows a regional policy in conjunction with bilateral cooperations on certain issues. We cannot isolate Mr. Erdoğan's criticism of Iran and the meeting agenda from the broader context.

While the wind of change turns cold in yet another country, Washington continues to make history by failing to manage the Arab Spring revolutions.

The Paris attack seems like a strategic strike aimed to sharpen the existing polarization both in France and Europe in general.

Developments such as the destruction of the weapons of mass destruction and softening relations between Iran and the international system may generate a different motivation in the upcoming negotiations.

Why Has Ikhwan Been Declared ‘A Terror Organization'?

The declaration of Muslim Brotherhood, or Ikhwan, as a “terror organization” has been accepted as one of the most radical decisions taken since the overthrow of the President Mohammed Morsi on July 3, 2013.

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Why Has Ikhwan Been Declared A Terror Organization'
Solution Options in the Syrian Crisis

Solution Options in the Syrian Crisis

No matter which method is chosen for Syria, it will be neither rational nor realistic to expect a miraculous solution for the Syrian crisis.

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SETA presents the analyses of SETA experts on Syria in order to better understand Syrian civil war which cost more than 100 thousand lives, injured more than 2 million people and displaced many others.

What Russia understands from a political solution is the Kadirov model and what Iran understands from the political solution is a scenario of “forever-negotiation-nihilism” as it is the case in its nuclear program. Is either to propose a realistic political solution to the Syrian crisis?