Being the Opposition While in Power
The classical democracy paradigm has been shaken by the position of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), the government and the opposition have exchanged their roles in terms of political reflexes.
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To be able to Speak of Reyhanli Alone
The Reyhanli attack is a quite clear attack in terms of its purpose and perpetrators. The Baath regime is trying to carry the fire into Turkish territory by using its regional proxies and a method it is accustomed to.
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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.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paying a visit to the United States attended a conference, Global Order and Justice in the 21st Century organized by SETA in Washington D.C.
The analyses over the US policy in Syria have started to concentrate on the US gains if the Syrian crisis drags out rather than on the risks Washington will face.
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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"Defeating Israel in Washington!"
The irony of the fate is that President of the United States Barack Obama had to broker Israels or the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus defeat to Turkey in the Middle East - though he could not wrestle with Israel in Washington.
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In addition to a big plus in the diplomatic success column of Turkey, for the sake of being realistic however, the structural issues such as the Turkish-Israeli conflict over the regional vision and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, etc. should be taken into consideration.
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.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visit was a quid pro quo for the active role Turkey played during the voting process.
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.
Kemalism has maintained its course through a kind of political reincarnation and via different groups of elites. Today, we face a similar picture under several headings, from the Syrian revolt to the solution of the Kurdish question.
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.
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.
Turkish foreign policy has entered a new phase, and it is highly possible that this phase will prove to be a breaking point.
