BARÇIN YİNANÇ

US ambassador on Turkey–US ties: Let’s wait and see BARÇIN YİNANÇ

US ambassador on Turkey–US ties: Let’s wait and see

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass did not have much to say yesterday when he met a group of journalists and academics to discuss the presidential election results, which ended in favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump

November 09 2016
Turkey’s freefall into the abyss BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Turkey’s freefall into the abyss

The defense line that I have had tremendous difficulty keeping for the past few months has collapsed

November 07 2016
A pull effect for nationalists is a push effect for democrats in Turkey BARÇIN YİNANÇ

A pull effect for nationalists is a push effect for democrats in Turkey

I first met the journalist Kadri Gürsel more than 20 years ago.

November 02 2016
Russia wants limited Turkish military action in Syria BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Russia wants limited Turkish military action in Syria

“We never believed it was the decision of the president to shoot down the plane. We know that outside forces were involved with that decision,” said Leonid Reshetnikov, the head of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS).

October 31 2016
Turkey will cross that bridge when it comes to nuclear disaster BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Turkey will cross that bridge when it comes to nuclear disaster

The Build, Operate, Own (BOO) model for nuclear power plants transfers all the different types of risks associated with the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant to the project company that owns and operates the plant. In the case of Akkuyu, the management of nuclear waste and the fuel spent are also the responsibilities of Rosatom, a Russian state-owned company.

October 26 2016
Turkey will have to share its secrets with Russia BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Turkey will have to share its secrets with Russia

There was only one good aspect of the diplomatic crisis between Russia and Turkey that erupted after the downing of a Russian war plane by Turkish jets on the Syrian border nearly a year ago: The possible suspension of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project.

October 24 2016
Iraq, Syria and 50 shades of terror organizations BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Iraq, Syria and 50 shades of terror organizations

The following is from a statement made on Oct. 13 by a high-level U.S. State Department official to daily Hürriyet’s Washington bureau chief:

October 19 2016
Turkey, a victim of Erdoğan’s inflammatory rhetoric BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Turkey, a victim of Erdoğan’s inflammatory rhetoric

“Ten years ago, the Americans helped Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province west of Baghdad form the ‘Awakening’ movement to defeat a previous incarnation of violent fundamentalist Islam - al-Qaeda in Iraq.

October 17 2016
Poll: Turks somehow liberal on rhetoric but not in practice BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Poll: Turks somehow liberal on rhetoric but not in practice

“We came up with a set of questions related to liberal values and tried to figure out whether Turkey is indeed, as some outsiders might perceive, a country devoid of liberalism, or whether liberal and democratic values have in fact taken root in Turkish society,” writes Dr. Hans–Georg Fleck, the representative of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, in the introduction to research conducted by a respected independent Turkish pollster.

October 12 2016