When Murat Yetkin became the editor-in-chief of Hürriyet Daily News, he introduced two rules among others: The first one being to have, in the right-hand corner of the front page, photos of women, or at least a woman. The concept is not the traditional one of having the picture of a beautiful woman just because she is beautiful; it is to increase the visibility of women who can be role models.
The year 1996 revealed another problem, among the many complex and interrelated disputes in the Aegean Sea, including the breadth of the territorial sea, the delimitation of the continental shelf, the demilitarization of certain islands, and the passage rights of ships and planes.
The Middle East has increasingly become a region where there are issue-based alliances and issue-based confrontations between both state and non-state actors. That is one of the reasons why Turkey and the United States have come to the brink of a hot confrontation in Syria, despite their five-decade-long alliance.
“I don’t want to buy American cotton anymore. I resent what they are doing,” says the owner of a textile company, referring to U.S. cooperation with the Syrian wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
One of the core difficulties to the solution of the Cyrus problem is power-sharing. Turkish Cypriot politicians have been pushing their Greek interlocutors for better power-sharing formulas once the island is finally united. Ironically, they have now placed themselves in a domestic experience of power-sharing.
“I don’t understand why anti-Americanism is so high among Turks,” a diplomat from a Central European country told me, adding to the way the U.S. had helped Europe to recover after World War Two and later defeated communism.
Don’t call me so much from your heart’s deep.
The U.S. published on Jan. 30 a list of Russian politicians and oligarchs as part of a sanctions law called the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
A journalist from a country that has problematic relations with its neighbors, with potential military encounters, becomes familiar with military terminology.
