Journalist-Writer
On Feb. 12 President Tayyip Erdoğan was addressing his Justice and Ddevelopment Party (AKP) group in the Parliament. He was accusing Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the center-left opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) of having secret links with the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen who has been indicted to mastermind the 2016 military coup attempt.
The mind opening term of the “Westlessness” is the theme of the 2020 Munich Security Conferences (MSC) on February 14-16. It’s the “Decay of the Western project” elaborates Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, the Chairman of the Munich Security Conferences in the report (*) with the same title of Westlessness; “today the West as we know is
When the news of Russians demanding another round of talks on Idlib on February 10, right after the one -with no result- on February 8 in Ankara, Turkish officials hoped that there could be a breakthrough. Following an attack of pro-Assad forces in Syria killing 8 Turkish troops on February 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin
On Feb. 5, 2020 President Tayyip Erdoğan inaugurated the Ammunition Sorting and Separation Plant of the Turkish Armed Forces, in Yahşihan district of Kırıkkale province, some 50 km East of Ankara. Afterwards, he paid a visit to the nearby town of Delice to address the people. He wanted to thank the voters in Delice, a
Details began to emerge after the Turkish Defense Ministry announced on February 3 that six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others were injured in an attack by pro-Assad regime forces near Idlib. Turkish officials announced in later hours that the number of fallen soldiers and civilan personnel hase increased to 8. (*) The attack
Stella Levi had married and moved from the Jewish neighborhood of Balat, Istanbul to Paris before the outbreak of the Second World War. When Nazi armies invaded Paris, a Jewish hunt had begun. Stella was still carrying a Turkish passport, so she applied for protection to the Turkish Embassy in Paris but her two daughters,
U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a new peace plan for the Middle East on January 29, may not bring peace in the region like former ones ignoring the rights of Palestinians but may serve to keep Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister of Israel in the March 2 elections and perhaps saving him from corruption
Japan has been the focus of several significant political events in 2019. The abdication of Emperor Akihito leaving the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son, the new Emperor Naruhito was important for starting a new era and reflecting rather domestic challenges of Japan. And the G20 Summit and peripheral conferences were important mostly due to their
In the current economic, political and societal climate, we have to consider the possibility that Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) might enter a period of implosion, without being able to carry its own weight any longer. The Elazığ earthquake, which took place on January 24, had a death toll of