With its neighborhood up in flames, the region’s borders about to be redrawn and an unspecified number of its own citizens held hostage, Turkey’s leaders seem to be eerily relaxed. The prime . . .
Archives for June 2014
The rise of ISIS threatens Europe and the USA
While the Islamists in Turkey are trying to make up their minds about whether the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is the creation and tool of the West or simply a catalyst for their . . .
Erdoğan demands news black-out; Islamist media has a field day
The escalating crisis and the growing threat of ISIS (The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) in Iraq have many ramifications for the region, some unforeseen but many long predicted. For those of . . .
Political interference in science getting worse in Turkey
Turkey has grand ambitions for the centenary of the Turkish Republic in 2023, aiming to become the 10th largest global economy. Political uncertainty and increasingly corrupt environment cloud such an . . .
Erdoğan’s attack on CNN adds up to climate of fear
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hostility to the media is not new. In the later years of the Justice and Development Party government, the majority of the domestic media has been . . .