Multilateralism, in the absence of a clearly articulated policy goal and willingness for international leadership, will not achieve results by itself.

That Turkey was going to face a tripartite campaign race during 2014-2015 has been known since the Constitutional Court ruling on the amendments to the electoral laws in 2012.

President Obama's policies on these matters will have serious impacts on U.S. popularity in the world.

Ever since the general elections of June 12, 2011, even without knowing how exactly events would unfold, it was not difficult to see that 2014 stood to become a very difficult political long year.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, since his outburst at Davos, has been declared to be “totalitarian” in Western media organs, mostly by pro-Israel pundits.

Is Assad really winning the war? And what does the victory look like for a regime that destroys its own country and has killed almost 200,000 people?

In addition to sounding very familiar within the emerging norm of R2P (Responsibility to Protect), this feeling of responsibility also constitutes a significant but ignored pillar of great power legitimacy in international relations.

In an atmosphere where the Kurdish issue is interpreted as Turkey's most important political problem aside from terror, the position and responsibility of both the government and the Kurdish political movement is growing.

Turkey's strategic journey towards a more developed, democratic and prosperous future will continue regardless of conjunctive challenges.

Turkey, a country so critical in shaping the international system, should play a more effective role in international organizations.

The slanderous claim of Erdoğan-al Qaeda link has been systematically voiced by the Gulen Group in Turkey. It is impossible to distinguish the mentality behind this slander from the Baath mentality in Syria or the US mentality in Afghanistan.

An agreement that included almost all of the terms in the recent deal had been signed among Turkey, Brazil and Iran in 2010.

The political performance presented in the Diyarbakır visit of Massoud Barzani, President of the Kurdish Regional Administration in Northern Iraq, and of Erdoğan will create an effect of clearing the early reservations of the Kurdish Movement about the political ground and political strength of Erdoğan.

Unless the US immediately broadens its perspective, there will be no guarantees that the new agreement with Iran will not suffer the same fate the Tehran agreement Turkey and Brazil achieved three years ago.

The most striking characteristic of the last five years is the “Erdoğan momentum” that has developed a constituent politics and created significant structural turning points when impasses occur.

Taha Özhan: Hosting Massoud Barzani in Diyarbakır is a significant turning point which has a consistent decade-old background history, and we may regard it as an ultimate-point for the state.