Should Öcalan Come Into Play?
The reason why Öcalan will appear on the stage once again is to bring disintegrated radical Kurdish nationalism together. He will play a part in alleviating Kurdish social segments that are angry with the PKK.
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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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Muhittin Ataman: The people of Turkey expect a more responsible HDP to invite the PKK to get rid of arms and withdraw from the Turkish territory.
Nowadays, the HDP and the PKK find themselves at a crossroads: They will either walk further down the path of violence or reinstate the cease-fire to maximize their gains in northern Syria and reap the benefits of peace in Turkey.
Muhittin Ataman, SETA Deputy Director, rejecting the criticisms on July 28 told France 24 that Turkey has not supported the civil war in Syria but any movement, or any challenge, against the Bashar al Assad regime.
A massacre took place 20 years ago in and around Srebrenica in front of the whole worlds eyes with the Serbian military forces killing 8,000 Bosnian men and raping, torturing thousands of women and children after the U.N. declared the area a safe zone.
Grexit and the Future of Austerity
The austerity program imposed on Greece as a solution to its deep economic crisis has transformed into a threat to the entire eurozone.
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Turkey Worries about the Fragility of the Ethnic Balance in Northern Syria
Murat Yeşiltaş stressed that Turkey is mainly concerned about the fragility of the ethnic balance in Northern Syria and does not want to see any possible armed conflict between Kurds and Arabs.
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The parliamentary system in Turkey did not isolate or end the antidemocratic means of intervention in democratic processes.
The Arab Spring represented the hope of democratization across the Middle East. Had the Tahrir revolution survived, the Muslim world could have had an entirely different future.
The global history of development reminds us that all rising economic powers tried to penetrate the European and American markets at some point along their particular trajectory, and Turkey is no exception to this rule.
When the political dust settles in Turkey following the June 7 elections, the attention of policy makers will have to refocus on the critical developments in Asia.
As the Middle East continues to be dominated by age-old rivalries, unresolved conflicts and protracted ethno-sectarian traumas, the epicenter of global hegemonic competition has shifted to the Asia-Pacific, where China and the U.S. are involved in a multipronged struggle for political, economic and geostrategic domination.
EIR will be authored by leading experts in the field of Islamophobia Studies and/or NGO-activists committed to the documentation of racism in respective nation states.
Ismail Caglar pointed out to the media ethics when deciding to feed readers with images about sensitive issues.
Tension has been escalating in Yemen since U.S. forces withdrew from the region. Now, as Iran extends its support to Shiite militants and the Saudi-led coalition conducts airstrikes on strategic positions, the situation is getting out of control in the country.
Reduced to a sectarian conflict by many, the danger of Iran must be evaluated as a security issue affecting both political and physical assets of the Gulf countries.
TANAP will fundamentally change the energy equation in Turkey. They will also carry peace, security and stability from the Caspian to the heartlands of Anatolia and on to Europe, thereby constituting the groundwork for the formation of a more integrated regional political economy.
