In a frank and poignant article published in al-Monitor this week, the Economist correspondent Amberin Zaman identified the essence of today’s political turmoil in Turkey. She wrote about the absence . . .
Archives for March 2014
BERKIN COULD NOT WAKE UP, CAN TURKEY?
It is not often I start a new day driven to despair. First thing this morning, hearing of the death of a 15 year boy injured during the Gezi protests, after spending months in a coma, left me . . .
A DAY IN THE LIFE: TURKEY
Mind-boggling revelations of lawlessness and sleaze that might ordinarily shake a normal country once in a decade seem to be happening on a daily basis in Turkey these days. Take a look at the news . . .
TURKEY’S RUSSIA-CRIMEA QUANDARY
The Russian invasion of Crimea and the growing crisis in the Ukraine have shown that the world may not be too far away from another Cold War. Described as “the biggest crisis in Europe in the 21st . . .