How the Assad regime has managed to survive the revolution, for the time being and in contrast to other recent upheavals in the Middle East… Continue reading
The battle over the Syrian town Ras al-Ain on the border to Turkey damaged Turkish relations with the Kurds in Syria, and with parts of Syrian opposition… Continue reading
U.S. intelligence community ponders the impact of Turkey’s growing significance in global affairs… Continue reading
The civil war in Syria is moving into the end-game… Continue reading
Of all the Christian communities in Syria, the Assyrians, that is, those Christians who identify as such by virtue of belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, arguably have the most complex relationship with the Assad regime… Continue reading
Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party has been well served by the confrontational style of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan… Continue reading
The tide seems to be turning in Syria… Continue reading
I’ve been interviewed a number of times, for example, by Iraqi journalists. But this time there was a different kind of question at the end of the interview… Continue reading
After Syria’s downing of a Turkish aircraft over the eastern Mediterranean, the question is not so much why Syria shot it down as why the two neighbors have become embroiled in a confrontation in the first place… Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the center of Diyarbakır for a celebration of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth. The event was organized by a coalition of NGOs affiliated with the radical Sunni Islamist organization known in Turkey as Hizbullah… Continue reading
On 21 March 2012, Turkish government officials began briefing trusted journalists on what they described as the new strategy of the ruling AKP for solving the country’s long-running Kurdish problem… Continue reading
Turkey’s old habits of state authoritarianism persist under the rule of the AKP… Continue reading
In response to increasing international concern about controversial cases such as Ergenekon, Sledgehammer and KCK, the AKP has repeatedly insisted that the judicial system is independent and that there is nothing that it can do… Continue reading
Arab/Muslim apartheid comes in many forms, and some victims have been subjected to more than one… Continue reading
Until now, Turkey’s presence in Iraq has generally been encouraged by all major Iraqi groups… Continue reading
Internal and external dynamics no longer compel Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to transcend his democratic limits… Continue reading
As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the Arab Spring… Continue reading
The inability of the Baath regime in Damascus to bring the situation in the country under control has compelled Turkey to… Continue reading
In recent weeks the Syrian security services have stepped up their already rapid pace of detentions… Continue reading
The only honest answer to the question of what will happen in Syria is… Continue reading
Bashar al-Assad is apparently aiming to destabilize Turkey… Continue reading
The new constitution of Turkey needs to be societal compact that reflects the pluralism of society… Continue reading
The AKP is using the KCK investigation as an instrument to try to crush all opposition to its increasingly hawkish policies on the Kurdish issue… Continue reading
The Turkish government has now responded with one of its largest counterinsurgency operations in years… Continue reading
The Arab spring has catapulted democracy and human rights to the top of Turkey’s stated foreign policy priorities… Continue reading
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