From the Tutelary Regime to the Coup, Egypt
The Arab Uprisings forcing the dictators to step down in the First Wave are to target the transformation of the old order and the establishment in the Second Wave.
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Why the BRICS is so Powerful but Less Influential?
The debate on the role and influence of the BRICS in global politics are increasing every day. However, what is lacking in this debate is that the focus is always on economic level.
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As Rouhani is a moderate man of reconciliation and dialogue, expectations about adopting a different line of politics in Iran have increased both inside and outside.
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.
It is certain that the character assassination targeting PM Erdoğan through the Gezi Park protests does not expect to reach a conclusion right now. The aim of the character assassination is to obliterate Erdoğans decision-making capacity by 2015. At this point, Erdoğans leadership test begins.
Turkey is the only actor that stands to spoil the neo Sykes-Picot. It appears that it will be impossible for al-Assad to regain his power in Syria as long as Turkey maintains its position.
US-Turkey Relations: Arab Spring And the Search for Model Partnership
Extrication of the Turkish-Israeli relationship from the US-Turkey relationship represented a structural change.
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A Super Power's Test with Syria
The analyses over the US policy in Syria have started to concentrate on the US gains if the Syrian crisis drags out rather than on the risks Washington will face.
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The last thing Turkey desires should be the entrapment of the solution process similar to that of Kirkuks.
The economic transformation in the region will enable effective use of regional resources and ensure sustainable peace and environment of trust.
It seems that with the PKKs disarmament these political positions will have to disarm politically.
With the occupation in Iraq, the primitive Middle Eastern eco-system, and with the Arab revolts, the Camp David order collapsed. The new regional order is being rapidly shaped by the new actors at the cost of the century-old status quo.
The irony of the fate is that President of the United States Barack Obama had to broker Israels or the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus defeat to Turkey in the Middle East - though he could not wrestle with Israel in Washington.
Turkey, needs assure that the Kurdish peoples, independent from the PKK, can exist on the agenda on a positive note in the post Assad period.
We will continue to witness a U.S. policy striving to adjust to the process in Syria. Nevertheless, this policy is not one that is pregnant with revolutionary turning points!
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.
Syria and Israel are two semi-states which base their identities on pretended hostility.
Özhan: In the aftermath of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, actors in the region started to identify themselves with ethnic and sectarian differences and rights. Developments in the region do not bode well. However, Turkey insistently supports democracy.
Turkish foreign policy has entered a new phase, and it is highly possible that this phase will prove to be a breaking point.
