Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s list of miscalculations is growing by the hour. He is blundering towards self-destruction and he is taking the country down with him. Mr Erdoğan’s cavalier . . .
Archives for December 2013
TURKEY 2013- PENGUINS AND SHOE-BOXES
As 2013 is coming to an end, I have been trying, in desperation, not to sound like a naysayer. Somehow, despair looks out of place on the threshold of a new year. Try as I might, I cannot push . . .
IN TURKEY, NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME AGAIN
Turkey woke up to an unprecedented corruption inquiry last Tuesday morning, with police raids targeting the sons of three cabinet ministers, a Justice and Development Party mayor of one of Istanbul’s . . .
READING CYPRUS CORRECTLY
I have been watching Cyprus closely ever since my first visit to the island to report on Glafkos Clerides’ election to the presidential office in 1993. In those days, it was rare for a Turkish . . .
NEED TO REFOCUS POLICY ON SYRIA
The security and humanitarian situation in Syria is deteriorating to unprecedented levels. The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has warned that meteorologists are predicting the harshest winter . . .