Turkish Foreign Policy During the Arab Awakening (II)
The geopolitical complexities of the Arab awakening are impacted by developments in Syria and Turkey's relations with Iran and Gulf countries.
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America's Trial with New Turkey
The Gülen movement is trying to sell its version of a snapshot of Turkish politics alongside the Kemalists. Those who are willing to take up the role of the native informant certainly find a number of venues in which to perform in Washington D.C.
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Turkey viewed the Arab awakenings as a positive development for both the region and for itself.
The statement that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made last week can be a first step in such a transformation in the conflict between two nations over the 1915 events.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, since his outburst at Davos, has been declared to be totalitarian in Western media organs, mostly by pro-Israel pundits.
Seymour Hersh's recent piece on the chemical attacks in Ghouta, Syria last August, has again sparked debates regarding his story and the problems with it.
Can Turkey's Mercy Help Africa?
Turkeys political interest in Africa has also prompted a diplomatic expansion. Turkey has increased its number of embassies on the continent from 12 in 2002 to 34 in 2013.
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Reading Turkish Politics Through The Polarization Myth
Politics in Turkey has been in normalization process in which different demands and identities come forward and the invisible becomes visible since 2002
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The new normalization necessitates a paradigm shift in the nature of relations. The international system, the region and Turkey witnessed major transformations in the last 10 years which will impact Turkish-Israeli relations.
The thesis of Turkeys being isolated represents a reductionist approach as it simply focuses on the relations with Syria, Egypt and Israel, and rules out the heavy diplomacy conducted outside the Middle East.
We face a center before us that, rather than arresting the criminal, accumulates crimes until it decides to use them for its own politically motivated operation later, committing an ignominious crime itself.
Foreign policy activities of Turkey continue in distant and different lands of the world, and Somalia is the best example of this.
The West makes an effort to win Iran back because a controllable Iran is the most natural ally of the West in the region.
Taha Özhan: Hosting Massoud Barzani in Diyarbakır is a significant turning point which has a consistent decade-old background history, and we may regard it as an ultimate-point for the state.
Today, quite common verbal attacks against Turkey through the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan are directly related to the security architecture and the preferences thereof, the change in problem solving methods and the efforts to remain independent in foreign policy.
This analysis offers a general assessment of Turkeys relations with the Balkans under the AK Party government.
The debate we are having today is, in a way, the debate over whether the duty of guarding Sykes-Picot, despite the passage of a century, should be carried on or not.
The discourse over the protest shows more of a tendency for psychological analyses than a political stance. Explanations such as fear, feeling confined and repressed do not offer us any political clarification.
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.
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.
