Turkey’s President Erdogan is a shrewd politician. Not only he knows how to manipulate the news agenda and to shift emphasis from embarrassing issues facing his administration, he also manages to turn . . .
Archives for November 2014
ISIS’ growing sphere of influence in Central Asia and Caucasus poses new security risks for Turkey
The United Nations Security Council says foreign fighters are continuing to flood the world’s zones of conflict and in Syria and Iraq alone; there are 15,000 militants from more than 80 countries. . . .
Further trouble brewing around Turkey
Tensions have risen all around Turkey’s already volatile neighborhood over the past week. With NATO confirming what the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has been warning for . . .
Chicken or the egg? Turkey’s society and politics are a reflection of each other
As a journalist espousing impartiality I do not like passing moral judgments on people and politics but a frighteningly obvious lack of consensus of what is right and wrong in Turkish public life is . . .
On this Halloween, death and savagery became too real to be humoured
Using humour as a way of defying the ultimate fear- death- has been a common thread in many societies. The yearly celebrations since pagan times have manifested themselves as All Hallows' Day in . . .