Trump’s New Year’s gift to Putin, Rouhani, and Erdogan
Trump’s haphazard and thoughtless decision to withdraw forces from Syria points only to his abdication of the US’ moral responsibility, not to speak of its... Read More
A sad day for Turkey
To be sure, it is a sad day for the Turkish people, who are witnessing with fear and deep trepidation how their dream of living... Read More
The looming end to the Western-Turkish alliance
It is now left to the Turkish people who want a secular and democratic Turkey with Islamic values to say NO in the April 16... Read More
Erdogan – the Sultan of an illusionary Ottoman Empire
This is the fourth and last in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey... Read More
Erdogan exploits Islam for personal and political gain
This is the third in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey and what... Read More
Erdogan – a classic case of how power corrupts
This is the second in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey and what... Read More
Erdogan’s lust for power is destroying Turkey’s democracy
This is the first in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey and what... Read More
The unraveling of Turkey’s democracy
Failing to make the right choice, Erdogan will not be remembered as the father of the new democratic and powerful nation, but as the misguided... Read More
Turkish democracy – an unfortunate casualty of Erdogan’s ambitions in Syria and Turkey?
What is more tragic is Europe’s ambivalent response to Turkey’s ongoing crackdown on political freedoms, as Brussels struggles to find a solution to its own... Read More
Turkey’s unique democracy vetoes ‘New Turkey’ and its foreign policy agenda
The ‘New Turkey’ concept suggested a neo-conservative agenda that had three basic tenets in its foreign policy orientation: balancing Israel in the Middle East, stopping... Read More
What has Turkey 2015 to learn from Yugoslavia 1989? – Part One
Call it a twist of fate or whatever you like, but the recent political developments in Turkey remind too much of Yugoslavia in 1989. Often... Read More
