Crisis diplomacy can sometimes be a useful tool to get out of a stalemate - provided that the management of the crisis diplomacy is in safe hands. Can we say diplomacy today is in safe hands in either Washington or Ankara?
As a frequent visitor to Europe, these days are the first time I have come across such a discrepancy between governments and the elites. There is an acute polarization in many societies, which makes me feel like saying “join the club.”
Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the ascent of populist–nationalist leaders to power in Hungary and Poland has prompted panic among liberals and democrats in Europe.
“If the government changes, the system will change overnight,” one acquaintance of mine said recently, trying to convince his wife that they should wait a little longer before deciding to leave Turkey to settle abroad.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has proven to be both a lifesaver and a troublemaker for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is the government that has come closest to solving Turkey’s Kurdish problem. It is also the government that has helped bring the prospect of an “independent Kurdish state” closest to reality, though obviously this is an unintended consequence of its mistaken policies.
Mustafa Akıncı, the president of Turkish Cyprus, is scheduled to speak today at a conference organized by the Economic Development Foundation (IKV).
Country A’s reaction to country B could be seen as justifiable or legitimate if country A is perceiving an existential threat from country B.
In addition to being the first female German chancellor, the first to have grown up in the former East Germany, the youngest German chancellor since the Second World War, Angela Merkel is also the first born after World War Two.
