What Lies Ahead in the Post-Al-Assad Future?
What are the chances that the actual object of fear is a stable post-al-Assad Syria? In the aftermath of turmoil and chaos, the newly achieved stability is expected to rest upon a Sunni demographic with a hint of Islamist politics.
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Political Participation of Islamist Actors in Morocco
By creating restricted political openings, as was the case in the early 1990s, the king intended to coopt some opposition parties, which had been previously excluded from the political system.
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it is clear that the post-2002 Middle East has new circumstances, and each actors ability to adapt to these will determine its future.
Turkey needs to draw lessons from the past and take necessary steps to facilitate the process.
It would be accurate to interpret the United States and the Wests increasing interest in Syria as a rush to secure a role in the scenario in which the Baath regime is nearing its end.
During Ergenekon hearing, CHP deputies joined forces with radical left actors including the Workers Party (İP) and the TGB.
A Quest for a New Vision in the Middle East
Criticisms and debates on Turkish foreign policy are embroiled in domestic polemics while regional and global variables are ignored.
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Is The Constitution-Drafting Period Ending?
The new constitution cannot and will not meet all the demands of all political parties and drafting a new constitution will be impossible unless everyone takes a step back.
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If Turkey and Egypt, , they will have taken a step that could deeply influence geopolitics in the whole region.
Hezbollah continues to recklessly spend the capital it has built with its resistance against Israel on the Baath regime.
If the Kurds want to realize their demand they must first become one of the main actors of the resistance movement to depose al-Assad in a way that does not leave room for doubt.
Another approach to the analysis of the Syrian crisis is to acknowledge the massacres committed by the Assad regime, but in the end, to own up the analyses mentioned above.
Turkey’s definitive stance on the issue shifted the Syrian resistance’s regional dynamics and event the faith of the Syrian regime.
Had Erdoğan supported the Baath regime or had he remained a spectator, as the opposition demanded, it would have taken him only months to do the political harm to himself that his adversaries could in decades.
Turkey should recognize that the neighbors with which it will likely share its longest borders are not Syria and Iraq, but Kurdish political entities.
The PKK, which missed by a long shot the transformation both Turkey and the Middle East undertook as evidence by the more blood it continues to shed, will continue to be a burden to the Kurds.
Russia is now about to pay the cost for its decision to invest in al-Assad -- a decision Russia has difficulty justifying even to itself.
The statements of government circles, new initiatives taken by the CHP (Republican Peoples Party) and the interview with Leyla Zana among others boosted hopes once again.
