“The reaction of the West - or its lack of reaction - to the coup seems to have pushed you to a nationalist line,” a friend told me after I complained about the Western media’s reporting about the situation of the press in Turkey
“I cannot tell you how popular we felt in Europe until 2010. In the past, we would have to encourage people to come listen to Turkish presidents or prime ministers
Europeans are having tremendous difficulty understanding the threat of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ)
“I can’t imagine what would have happened if we were caught in this storm with Ahmet Davutoğlu at the helm,” a colleague who is also a prominent scholar recently told me, talking about the July 15 coup attempt
Turkish–European relations have survived many ups and downs over the years
In one of my visits to Brussels in 2011, I had gone to the NATO headquarters and witnessed a Turkish diplomat saluting members of the Albanian delegation in Turkish. I was told that they were graduates of Fethullah Gülen schools in Albania
This fact might not be known to many in the West: The roots of Turkey’s steel and iron industry go back to Turkish-Russian cooperation in the late 1960s and early 1970s
What we are living through these days harbors several chains of ironies
Anti-Americanism and Western skepticism are common phenomena among Turks
