The final verdict by the International Court of Arbitration in Paris against Türkiye has further complicated the de facto controversial situation regarding the Kurdish oil exports since the creation in 1992 of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), both in Erbil, Ankara and Baghdad. as well as for foreign oil companies operating in the region. Now,
Recent anti-Semitic incidents in Türkiye have outraged the public. The first incident occurred during a high school football game between Ulus Jewish High School and Üsküdar American High School. Ulus Jewish High School is the oldest and only school of the Turkish Jewish Community. The Turkish Jewish Community and Üsküdar American High School both confirmed
This was my first thought when I saw a photo of Humza Yousaf, the leader of the Scottish National Party, leading his family and Muslim team members in prayer after breaking their fast on his first day in the first minister’s residence. Could the first Muslim Prime Minister of a European Union member state be
First, let us try to explain why Türkiye lost an arbitration case brought by the Iraqi government in 2014, which resulted in Türkiye being ordered to pay 1.4 billion US dollars in compensation. We should add that he International Chamber of Commerce’s International court of Arbitration in Paris also found the Iraqi government guilty of
The title of this article could have been “What else should Kılıçdaroğlu do?”. But with the ideological and political answers to this question, the article could have stretched in two different directions, which would have been insufficient to explain the front-politics that brought Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the CHP and the presidential candidate of
As soon as the Table of Six proposed that Mr. Ekrem İmamoğlu and Mr. Mansur Yavaş, mayors of İstanbul and Ankara respectively, should be appointed as deputies to Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu if he is elected as the President, President Erdoğan’s Legal Advisor Mehmet Uçum tweeted “It is a clear violation of the Constitution for the same
The general fuss over presidential candidate nominations in Ankara seems to settle down after Kurdish-issue focused People’s Democracy Party (HDP) and its Labor and Freedom Alliance announced that they would not nominate any presidential candidate. While their indirect support to six-party opposition alliance’s candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu stirred yet another debate, the other 11 candidates, who
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader and opposition’s presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu met with Germany’s ruling partner Social Democratic Party (SPD) co-chair Lars Klingbeil and accompanying delegation in the earthquake stricken province of Gaziantep on March 21. The CHP and SPD leaders emphasized on the devastating effects of February 6 earthquakes that hit
It was a few hours after the New Welfare Party (Yeniden Refah Partisi) leader Fatih Erbakan announced that his political-islamist party refused to endorse the ruling People’s Alliance in the elections after meetings with President Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials. Erbakan not only refused to support, but also announced his candidacy for
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that Ankara will start the process to ratify Finland’s NATO membership as the country “has taken authentic and concrete steps.” “Given the sensitivity and progress made in adressing our country’s security concerns, we have decided to initiate the ratification process of Finland’s accession protocol to NATO in our parliament,”