T he brawl that erupted after the referendum will not easily go away. So, as predicted, post-referendum Turkey is now dragged into a deeper crisis.
'No' camp had dreaded secretly that if 'yes'…
T he referendum on 16 April was the last station -until the next one- in the path to oriental authoritarianism which Tayyip Erdogan, the domineering protagonist of the Turkish political sphere since 2002, has…
by Zakir Gul
One ton of explosives were placed under the security building in Turkey recently, and almost none of the media covered it. Other sources claim that the amount of explosives was 2.5 tons. Whatever…
Islamic State Networks in Turkey - a report published recently by Merve Tahiroglu and Jonathan Schanzer of Foundation for Defence of Democracies (FDD) based in Washington D.C. The report reveals not only the Islamic State networks in Turkey…
T he request reached me as I was visiting an European capital.
It was a kind note. 'A group of us want to discuss our suffering and we would be happy if you could…
I want my job back!
This simple demand has for nearly five months turned Nuriye Gülmen's life into horror, every single day of it. She was one of the thousands of victims of…
by Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could soon find himself with a raft of sweeping powers as his party pushes for a far-reaching law with limited checks and balances that would transform…
A spectre is haunting Europe--the spectre of authoritarianism.
Is it fair to rewrite the first sentence of Marx-Engels manifesto in this manner?
As we observe the worrisome process of 'Erdoğan vs Germany', now…
T urkey has always been a worrisome country with less freedom that you could demand, but now, things have come to an explosive point. Since Turkey is still regarded as a, let's say, European…
by Benjamin Kweskin
Unlike the warm, if not ambiguous and (mostly) indirect relationship between Israel and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, relations between Israeli and Kurdish actors in Turkey have been considerably…