There will be five issues on the agenda of the summit, including preventing and ending conflict, respecting the rules of war, leaving no one behind, working differently to end need and investing in humanity.

The international community has failed in the case of the Syrian civil war as the number of refugees increased expotentially

The main problem with the Sykes-Picot debate is that commentators tend to exaggerate the influence of great powers over the Middle East – which borders on conspiracy theory.

American allies, facing a fluid and ambiguous policy from the U.S., hope for a more honest approach with clear-cut objectives from the next administration

Unwilling to take up an effective role in finding a political or military solution to the Syrian crisis, the EU and U.S. have to follow Turkey's lead

Obama's foreign policy team overplayed the anti-Bush card while trying to avoid making the same mistakes as the previous administration.

The recent airstrikes on Aleppo and the resulting civilian casualties is the symbol of the Syrian war that we will have trouble explaining to future generations.

Taking his time to set up a de facto safe zone in the Azaz-Jarablous area, Mr. Obama wants to take his YPG policy to the next level and save his staff the trouble of tip-toeing around an obvious fact.

Demographic engineering, war crimes and atrocities committed by the YPG is making it harder for the U.S. administration to support it, but still it does

Obama told Charlie Rose about his administration's Middle East-focused foreign policies. This time, it was written all over his face in the interview that he was confessing his sins about the Syrian policy

The passive attitude kept up by the U.S. throughout all of the processes in the Middle East is not a result of indecisiveness but the very policy itself, which Ankara knows

The doctrines of President George W. Bush and Obama made long-term uncertainty innate to the region, which would change the security and alliance structures of the Middle East. But how?

Iraq and Syria will haunt Obama's legacy in the future and, for many, the emergence and rise of DAESH and failure to destroy the organization will also leave a stain

The United States' failure to manage the Arab Spring revolutions coupled with its failure to enforce its red line following the Ghouta chemical attack raises questions among Saudi Arabia's ruling elite about Washington's reliability as an ally

Instead of focusing on not negotiating with legal actors in the Middle East to solve the current hot conflicts, the Obama administration tosses them out. Obama will probably have his name written on the lists of antagonists in history

The arrest of Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zerrab in Miami does not give any message as thought by the Turkish opposition - it only shows that a U.S. attorney did his duty

The UNAOC initiative represented a perfect example of Turkey's proactive, multilateral diplomacy based on building international alliances around common principles and inclusiveness, contributing to innovative peace building through dialogue