Europe's Conscience is Dying on the Shores
The perspective of European countries on human rights and autocratic regimes in the Middle East needs to take a more humanitarian form so as to end the ongoing civil wars.
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US and the Gulf after Camp David
In the aftermath of nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1 countries, the U.S. is facing a more complicated relationship with Gulf countries. It seems that the Camp David summit was not very successful in refreshing Gulf countries' confidence in the U.S. as a diplomatic ally.
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If on the other hand the goal of the hosting countries is to end the diplomatic isolation of Russia and Egypt, it will again not provide positive results for these two countries.
Egypt represents the heart of the Arab world. The country has the potential to create new regional trends in terms of the balance of power in the Middle East and the transformation of Islamic movements.
Tunisia and Morocco have improved their standards of democracy and positively responded to the demands of their people throughout the Arab Spring.
World War I meant the emergence of a new regional order that drew the borders between societies; however, the psychological and ideological borders were more destructive for the region than the psychical ones.
Politicization of Salafism in Egypt
This study will dwell on the structures, opinions of Salafi groups prior to the Revolution and their political parties, political attitudes and opinions in the wake of the January 25 Revolution.
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Is Turkey a Winner or a Loser in Foreign Policy?
The thesis of Turkeys being isolated represents a reductionist approach as it simply focuses on the relations with Syria, Egypt and Israel, and rules out the heavy diplomacy conducted outside the Middle East.
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The analysis offers a local, regional and global landscape of key issues and actors in regards to the new rounds of the American brokered peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority under the Kerry Talks.
Only time will tell whether a desire for such change will emerge in the political in Iran, and if it does, whether it will be achieved. Similarly, the answer to the question Does the West prefer a normalized Iran in the region is yet to become clear.
We interviewed Insight Turkey Editor-in-chief Professor Talip Küçükcan on the accomplishments and the new editorial team of Insight Turkey and for his future projections of the journal.
Gülşah Neslihan Akkaya: No official statement has been issued; however, Saudi Arabia and Qatar will clearly support the intervention as Saudi Arabia is the number one arms provider to the Syrian opposition.
Since January 2011, Arab regimes have also employed the terrorism card to maintain their grip on government.
If the new regime in Egypt survives in the coming days, nobody will win a strategic advantage; rather, all actors in the Middle East will lose dearly, most significantly the Egyptian people themselves.
An examination of Turkey and the Arab Spring protests via the main slogans and goals along with a cursory analysis of their political histories is enough to point out their difference in nature.
In a period where the models of administration for the Islamic world are opened to discussion, the model of one of the rooted movements of the world, the Muslim Brotherhood, is not given an opportunity to be tested.
