What is Hiding Behind the Discussion of Authoritarianism?
The Ak Party which integrated a discourse of civilization with Erdoğan's leadership, has the courage to confront all fears of the history of Turkish modernization.
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Serbia's State Crisis An Advantage For Vucic
The decision to go to early elections offers an undeniable opportunity for Serbia's most important political figure, Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader and Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, to finally take control of the country's administration.
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Turkey's strategic journey towards a more developed, democratic and prosperous future will continue regardless of conjunctive challenges.
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.
In a period where different political powers have come to terms and made a notable progress about the new administration, and while 96 percent of the relevant works are completed in Yemen, could the launch of a new movement to divide the country starting from the region of Hadramout be a coincidence?
As the trial of ousted Morsi and top Ikhwan officials in Egypt begins on Monday, November 4, 2013, the opposition has already called this week a Trial of the Peoples Will in which demonstrations will be organized to protest the lawsuit against Morsi who was deposed by the military intervention on July 3, 2013.
The Fall of Ikhwan and the Future of Ennahda
What does Ennahda movement do in order not to share the same fate with the Morsi administration in Egypt and what are the difficulties it comes across?
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The Intervention in Syria: The Fear of Western Hegemony
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.
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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.
Ulutaş: On-going detentions and massacres in Egypt have shut the door for a political solution in the country.
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.
Whatever happens, relations between the two countries cannot and will not reach the high level of cooperation between Turkeys pro-coup elites and Israel in the late 1990s.
As long as the U.S. insists on the old order of the Middle East via its support for Israel, it will soon no longer possess the necessary political software to deal with the new Middle East.
Another approach to the analysis of the Syrian crisis is to acknowledge the massacres committed by the Assad regime, but in the end, to own up the analyses mentioned above.
A country which really wants to engage in a war would not have carried out an active diplomacy with Syria for six months and with international community for thirteen months.
The transformation of peaceful protesters into armed revolutionaries was triggered not by choice, but by necessity and obligation.
Turkish foreign policy has entered a new phase, and it is highly possible that this phase will prove to be a breaking point.
