IN less than a fortnight, a new political party will be launched in Turkey, trying to contest the absolute dominance of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his party in the country. The leading figure…
T urkey, once a model for Muslim-majority countries, has been going through an authoritarian backslide since the last several years. This trend peaked following the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The post-coup…
T he OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media plays a crucial role that is valued tremendously by journalists and media freedom groups to speak out in defense of press freedom in states of…
T urkey’s missile defence dilemma has continued for a while. Recent reports confirm that Turkey has agreed to purchase Russian air and missile defence system, the S-400 Triumph. The deal is worth $2.5billion under…
T he failed coup attempt of July 2016 in Turkey is still having its echo around Turkey and all over the world. Fetullah Gülen, the nemesis of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is still…
''Let’s be brutal: democracy is dying. And the most startling thing is how few ordinary people are worried about it'' wrote Paul Mason, an expert on social justice, in the Guardian.
''Instead we compartmentalize the…
P akistani President Nawaz Sharif was removed from his position on July 28, 2017, by the country’s Supreme Court based on the findings of a corruption probe launched after the leak of the Panama…
T he Aegean basin and the Anatolian land, where “Greek Love” gets its name, both have been homeland of nice LGBT heroes and thinkers throughout history.
The concept of homosexuality, which is met with…
[dropcap size=small]T he current type of regime in Turkey is democracy on the paper, but autocracy in reality and application. Autocracy is a term describing the regime type, but not the ruler. Therefore, it…
Robespierre said in one of his speeches, “The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the Enemies of the People but death”.
In other words,…