What we are witnessing nowadays deserves to be called a profound 'scandal' rather than political crises, or a political scandal which has turned into major political crises in Turkey
“Let it be late rather than difficult,” a Turkish saying goes. I always thought that the opposite was more helpful in solving problems, that we should let it be difficult rather than late.
Turkey is like a sinking ship nowadays as the recent grand corruption probe led to political, social, economic and indeed moral crises.
One of the major issues of the coming decades is going to be the “crises of majoritarian democracies”
I do not know which is the best way to put it; is it “Turkey is going to be a failing state” (if not a “failed state”) or “Turkey’s politics are in a failing state?”
Last week I attended the “10th International Conference on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds
It is sad to observe the tragic end of politics in the name of religion in the Muslim world
I have never been an enthusiastic supporter of Turkey’s EU membership due to various reasons, but if I knew that we would one day end up striving to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), I would have changed my mind.
The visit to Diyarbakır of Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani