5 Questions: KHamanei's Fine Calculated Political Moves
Abdullah Yegin*: The possibility of fine calculated moves of the Ayetollah should not be overlooked.
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The Syrian Crisis and Hezbollah
Hezbollah will face its real crisis when it completes its transformation from a respected regional actor to a lonely actor.
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Most of the evaluations that have been made by the media and political circles regarding Turkish foreign policy in Syria have three characteristics in common: They are void of Syria, baseless and conspiratorial.
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.
Extrication of the Turkish-Israeli relationship from the US-Turkey relationship represented a structural change.
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.
A Decade After the Occupation of Iraq
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.
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Sometimes an apology is just an apology!
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.
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The United States (US) and the West wait to see clearly who will win and when in Syria. While waiting, however, they lose both in Syria and in the region.
During the Feb.28 post-modern coup process, the judiciary was pressured via briefings. Prosecutors and judges who did not rule as they were asked from them were relegated.
Özkan: The death of Hugo Chavez signifies the end of a period in Latin Americas political history.
One of the fundamental issues and the source of fear for many in the West after the revolution in Egypt was a possible radical change in the foreign policy area. But what has changed in the foreign policy of Egypt after the revolution?
Trade relations between Turkey and Russia indicate that divergence between these two countries regarding the resolution of the Syrian crisis has not deeply influenced the relations between the two.
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!
The transformation of peaceful protesters into armed revolutionaries was triggered not by choice, but by necessity and obligation.
High-ranking officers who were killed in the blast in Syria also took away the regimes immunity, the mutual trust of those in the regimes inner circle and the loyalty of the army.
Syria and Israel are two semi-states which base their identities on pretended hostility.
Turkish foreign policy has entered a new phase, and it is highly possible that this phase will prove to be a breaking point.
