Preparing for a new Cold War and Turkey
Will a new world order emerge after the pandemic that matches today’s popular expectations? Frankly, I’m not optimistic and believe the world is more likely to face another Cold War. And this Cold War...
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Turkish FM’s blunder on German tourists triggers reaction
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu made probably the biggest blunder of his political career during a joint press meeting with Heiko Maas, his German counterpart, on May 6 in Berlin, triggering reactions from the...
Turkish public remembers Uighur Turks thanks to Özil
The news about Arsenal player Mesut Özil’s move to Fenerbahçe has come as a welcome fresh air to a league whose bleeding popularity has been further aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting from the...
What is Erdoğan trying to achieve and why is it so difficult?
Understanding what President Tayyip Erdoğan is trying to do is actually not that complicated. Like many other leaders, he foresees that political and economic relations and power balances will begin to be redefined in...
The pandemic is a mirror: poverty, old age, blackness
It was the beginning of March. It looked as though all the world’s celebrities had contracted COVID-19. England’s Prince Charles, Iran’s Parliamentary President Ali Larijani, Hollywood’s Tom Hanks, and Turkey’s millionaire football coach Fatih...
COVID masks vs. face recognition programs
At the moment, all eyes are on the demonstrations in the USA and the course of the COVID epidemic. But Hong Kong has been hosting similar protests every weekend for months. Moreover, they are...
Former Turkish intel chief wrote: beyond the Covid-19 crisis
With the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic, we are facing a complex, versatile, case with a number of questions and answers. It may be useful to deal with the problem in two separate stages, as temporal...
The good, the bad and the ugly: Consequences of Covid-19
Throughout the world, people are struggling to assess the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. From an economic perspective, most experts agree the crisis will have lasting negative effects. At the same time, the crisis...
Globalization and Coronavirus: The End of Geography?
The claim that globalization would abolish borders and bring the “End of Geography” has proven to be as groundless as the “End of History” thesis.
Corona taught China a hard lesson: diplomacy guru Fu
Fu Ying, one of the most prominent figures of Chinese foreign policy, said that the coronavirus epidemic “taught a hard lesson” and “costed dearly” to China a, and that the Chinese people would expect...