Deniz Poyraz, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) employee, was killed in an armed attack on the Kurdish issue-focused party’s İzmir province on June 17. Onur Gencer, who entered the building and fired randomly, was caught right after the attack. “I am not affiliated with anyone,” said the attacker, an expression similar to what Mehmet Ali
During the last decade before the fall of the Soviet Union, I served as a foreign service officer in Moscow. Every western diplomat that negotiated with Soviet counterparts knew their negotiation attitude could be summarized as follows; “What is ours is ours. What is yours is negotiable.” This attitude seems to be at the heart
Since the first days of 2021, protests and peaceful resistance of Boğaziçi University (BU) faculty triggered by an overnight and unexpected appointment of a rector by the President of the Republic has occasionally occupied the headlines of news and social media. Students have also joined in sporadically since student presence on campus has been limited
For President Tayyip Erdoğan, the most important thing about the June 13-14 NATO summit was his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.The U.S. leader had already responded to Erdoğan’s phone call on April 23 – five months after his counterpart’s copulatory call– to tell him that he would recognize April 24 as the Armenian Genocide
The long-awaited first meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden as two leaders took place on the sidelines of the two-day NATO summit on June 14 in Brussels.The two presidents handled key issues of tensions between the two NATO allies with Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles and the future of
Turkey’s political and economic agenda is locked in a meeting between President Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden within the framework of the NATO summit on June 14. This meeting is important but not only in terms of the future of bilateral relations, which have been tested by serious crises in recent years. As
The Central Bank has raised its U.S. dollar exchange rate and inflation forecasts for the end of the year, as it predicts a higher-than-expected growth rate.According to the June results of the Survey of Market Participants, the Central Bank expects the dollar to trade at 8.95 Turkish Liras at the end of the year, up
Turkey, Diyarbakır-based Dicle Social Research Center (DİTAM), hosted Konda Research Company General Manager Bekir Ağırdır at its online meeting “The Effects of the Pandemic and the Economic Crisis on the Kurdish Issue – Is A New Peace Process Possible?” on June 10.The debate on the declared title soon turned into a search for the answer
The most likely scenario for the bilateral meeting between President Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden on June 14 is becoming clear. So let us look at the circumstances in which this meeting will take in place to put in into perspective.1- This meeting is important but not only in in terms of Turkey-U.S.
We live in a difficult time for democratic norms. Eighty-seven countries worldwide — home to an estimated 68% of the world’s population — are considered either electoral or closed autocracies. By contrast, the number of liberal democracies around the world has shrunk over the last 10 years, from 41 countries to 32. These startling numbers