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The recent clashes that started with artillery fire on an Azerbaijani village close to the Nagorno-Karabakh region occupied by Armenia on Sept. 27 may turn into an opportunity that Baku has been waiting for years. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seems to have made the wrong move with the wrong timing. If Russia, the guard
I cannot explain the recent detention of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members and representatives in terms of law, so let’s try to look into it in terms of political balances and meaning. Why now, and or God’s sake, what’s going on?First, the political atmosphere in which such a decision was made matters. The Greece/Eastern
Easing relations with Greece and the European Union (EU) through diplomatic reconciliation would not heal an economy that is facing other serious problems, but consensus might give a sigh of relief if corrective steps are intended. The U.S. dollar trades over 7.7 per lira as the euro stands near 9 liras. The U.S. Ambassador to
Let’s start with checks and balances. First, I would like to present a piece for taste from my soon-to-be-published “The Book of Coups for the Curious”, sparing some names of the characters for the book. Then, we can start talking about a judge, a prosecutor, and a wedding ceremony.It was the darkest days of the
High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles delivered a speech concerning Turkey in the European Parliament on Sept. 15. In the core part of his speech, he named Turkey among the countries that want to enliven the “old empire,” adding that this is a new situation confronting the EU.New
The recent book “Rage” by American journalist Bob Woodward, one of the two journalists who had exposed the famous Watergate scandal, wrote that U.S. President Donald Trump knew the terrible impact of the Covid-19 epidemic but hid it from the public under the pretext of “not demoralizing” the people. Trump, on the other hand, said
Let me fix the headline first since I should have said “politicians like Emannuel Macron.” However, it is the French leader who challenges Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan today, so this article focuses on him.Though it is a little late, Germans know today that confrontation is political nutrition for Erdoğan. First, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then Chancellor
President Tayyip Erdoğan has been saying that everything is fine, but many key issues tend to get out of control. Let’s start listing the problems without further ado. Uncontrolled herd immunity 1- The coronavirus epidemic has spread again, starting to collapse the morale of society. The Covid-19 outbreak, which regressed due to restrictive -but not
The demand for the reinstatement of the death penalty is too serious an issue to be called a diversion. And this time though, it hits the Turkish society on a particularly sensitive spot. Discussions of the death penalty are coming up just as an Islamist sect sheik got arrested on charges of sexually harassing the
It was obvious from day one that the Turkish-Greek crisis in the East Mediterranean would not turn into a war. Not because of the strong statements by the European Union (EU) threatening Turkey with sanctions. The EU has long lost political leverage over Turkey, and mainly due to Cyprus. However, whether you like it or