”Turkey watchers are used to heated political exchanges both within Turkey and between the country and its international partners. In…
With a big smile, she extended her hand and said ‘Hello, I think I know you, I am a Turkish…
Only a week or two after the failed coup in Turkey, which took place in July 15, 2017, I was…
Now, this is the moment I was waiting for. When it came to the real challenge – I mean ‘taking…
U.S Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, seems to have failed to persuade Massoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Regional…
Against the solid, collective adoration of President Erdoğan, what strikes any observer is the solitude of the intellectual, which is…
”Let’s be brutal: democracy is dying. And the most startling thing is how few ordinary people are worried about it”…
It is question time now. Everyone who is one way or another is interested, or has interests in, Turkey, keeps…
Now that Turkey from various vantage points display a ‘free fall’ pattern – particularly because of the fall-out with Germany…
Perhaps it is my fault. I can no longer understand the naivete – some would call it wishful thinking –…