I remember the times when our high school history textbooks changed in the late 1970s, after the nationalist-conservative coalition government came to power
Pankaj Mishra’s elaborate review of India’s elections (Guardian Review, May 17) was a sad read for me, especially in these troubled days of democracy in Turkey.
The story of Turkey is neither 'peculiar' nor 'surprising,' as many claim. Turkey is another 'banal' case of rising 'illiberal democracies'
The latest peace process created a new and mostly unspoken tension between the Kurdish movement and its liberal and leftist supporters, on the one hand, and between Alevis and Kurds, on the other
A “civil war” broke in Turkey even if it is not in the (God forbid!) conventional meaning of the term.
One major issue concerning Erdoğan’s presidency is his willingness to do a deal with the Kurdish political movement to ensure their support
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has become the latest target of accusations from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government
From the beginning, the fact that the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has been a dictatorial police state has been used as an excuse to turn a blind eye to the brutality of the opposition groups, especially against Alawites and Christians
I had to write this column before seeing the election results, but no worries, as the political problem is not related to the electability of the Justice and Development Party (AKP)
