What Has the AK Party Done on the Kurdish Issue?
The AK Party, as the author of many firsts in the resolution of the Kurdish issue, has taken a huge lead over other parties.
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Turkey, the US and the Syrian Crisis
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.
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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.
The increasing timidity of Western democracies to pursue the principle of responsibility to protect at an international level is leaving the Chinese government with the freedom to oppress .
Some Western nations, including the United States, are likely to be irked by a Turkey that intensifies its Somalia policy and takes other steps with the aim of restoring area balances, but that is the only way in which Turkey could contribute to bringing durable peace.
The dynamics of the current political climate in Turkey, which make impossible to create a new Constitution based on consensus among political parties, can be discussed under three headings.
A Guide to the PKK and the Resolution Process
For years, the liberal/left discourse in Turkey misconstrued the identity debate to describe the Kurdish question through the Western-informed lens of the distinction between good and bad.
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The Solution Process and the Media
The old Turkeys only actor who has changed neither radically nor genuinely, nor has even discussed the change, is the Turkish mainstream media.
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The peace process will give us the opportunity to devise a more assertive and broader future by reconstructing a common we on a more righteous and healthier ground.
On March 22, a panel on the Syrian Revolution was organized and hosted by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) in Ankara. Panelists were two leading figures of the Syrian opposition.
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.
Perhaps from now on, Tunisia should adopt an approach prioritizing social dynamics without pushing the new constitution process aside.
Özkan: The death of Hugo Chavez signifies the end of a period in Latin Americas political history.
As Turkey suffers century-old political issues, the main opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) spends its political energy over inner-party conflicts.
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.
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.
Pre-new constitution period is an appropriate time to discuss the disadvantages of the current political system and to pursue the quest for a new political system.
Turkish foreign policy has entered a new phase, and it is highly possible that this phase will prove to be a breaking point.
