• Prosecutor launches probe into minister and police on Ankara bombing
    Prosecutor launches probe into minister and police on Ankara bombing
    An Ankara prosecutor has launched an investigation into Interior Minister Selami Altonok and several public servants for “neglect of duty” over the Oct. 10 suicide bombing in the Turkish capital that took the lives of 102 people.
    TURKEY
  • The refugee crisis and the risk of an “axis shift” in Turkey-EU relations
    The refugee crisis and the risk of an “axis shift” in Turkey-EU relations
    Mustafa Kutlay
    Waves of migration rising from the civil war erupted in Syria have crashed onto Europe, becoming the reason why EU policy makers have taken up contact with Turkey in a panic
    COLUMNIST
  • 70th anniversary of Korea’s independence and division
    70th anniversary of Korea’s independence and division
    Selçuk Çolakoğlu
    August I5th is both South Korea and North Korea's Independence Day. Korea, occupied by Japan from 1910-1945, was expected to achieve its freedom along with the defeat of Japan in World War II. The...
    COLUMNIST
  • Draghi: ECB could step up stimulus program
    Draghi: ECB could step up stimulus program
    European Central Bank is ready to use ‘all instruments available’ to stimulate the eurozone economy, Draghi says
    EUROPE
Columnists
  • 70th anniversary of Korea’s independence and division
    Selçuk Çolakoğlu
    Selçuk Çolakoğlu
  • The refugee crisis and the risk of an “axis shift” in Turkey-EU relations
    Mustafa Kutlay
    Mustafa Kutlay
  • Love-hate relationship: The cooling of Russia–Turkey relations
    Kerim Has
    Kerim Has
  • Turkey amid geopolitical shifts altering regional balances
    E. Fuat Keyman
    E. Fuat Keyman
  • Australia and the rethinking of the international refugee regime
    Altay Atlı
    Altay Atlı
  • Are electricity markets on the brink of bankruptcy?
    Haluk Direskeneli
    Haluk Direskeneli
  • Turkish foreign policy and the Middle East
    Özdem Sanberk
    Özdem Sanberk
  • The black hole in Turkish politics: The Kurdish issue
    İhsan Bal
    İhsan Bal
  • Humanity washed ashore
    Fatma Yılmaz-Elmas
    Fatma Yılmaz-Elmas
  • A milestone on Kazakhstan’s journey to promote nuclear non-proliferation
    Gülay Mutlu
    Gülay Mutlu
  • Study: Immigrants pay for 620,000 Italian pensions
    The 5 million foreigners living in Italy pay pensions for 620,000 people, a study published on Thursday said, highlighting a potential benefit of Europe's biggest biggest wave of immigration since World War II.
    EUROPE
  • Kerry, Lavrov to seek political answers for Syria
    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Vienna, where he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will seek common ground on Syria’s political future.
    MIDDLE EAST
  • US President Obama vetoes $612 billion defense bill
    Obama has said the Congress approved bill impedes the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison and keeping sequestration caps on defense budget
    AMERICAS
  • Russia to open $5 billion credit line for Iran to finance projects
    Russia plans to open a $5 billion credit line for Iran to help finance joint infrastructure projects in the country, officials said October 22 .
    MIDDLE EAST
  • Montenegro’s upcoming NATO membership: A time of tension between Russia and the West
    Any enlargement by NATO in the face of Russia’s current assertiveness would be highly symbolic
    OP-ED
  • The Trans-Caspian Pipeline: When or If?
    Realizing that there is a great risk attached to the supply of energy throughout Ukraine, the EU has had to reevaluate its policy of energy diversification
    OP-ED
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          Süreyya Yiğit
        • Montenegro’s upcoming NATO membership: A time of tension between Russia and the West
          Hamdi Fırat Büyük
        • The softening of Saudi Arabia towards the Iranian nuclear deal would yield positive results in US-Saudi relations
          Debalina Ghoshal
        • Filling out an election survey rather than voting for a political party
          Mehmet Özdağlar
        • Does Oman deserve such attention?
          Amr Ismail
        • An escalating crisis within a crisis: Greece overwhelmed by influx of refugees
          Ilia Xypolia
        • Hamas’s diplomatic activism: Modified strategies and new alliances
          Fadi Elhusseini
        • Turn back to the 90s? Turkish domestic policy from the perspective of the West
          Kenan Engin
        • Taking no lesson from the past: Israel’s demonization policy
          Murat Ulgul
        • China’s message to the world via its V-Day celebration
          Nurzhanat Ametbek
        • The new head of the Turkish Army, Akar Pasha: A perfect strategist
          Yavuz Yener
        • Serbia’s Kosovar Serb policy harming Serbian interest at home
          Hamdi Fırat Büyük
        Articles
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          Hasan Selim Ozertem
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          Altay Atli
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          Tolga Türker
        • Political leadership in Kyrgyzstan: Perceptions and expectations of citizens
          Pinar Akçali & Dinara Murzaeva
        • Political parties in the Turkic republics: A comparative analysis on Kazakh and Uzbek political party systems
          Haluk Alkan & Müzeyyen Eroglu
        • Countering the insurgency in Afghanistan: Wrong diagnosis wrong treatment
          Metin Gürcan
        • Evolution of Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy: 1991-2011
          Shirin Akiner
        • The limits of zero problem policy in the Caucasus: the impasse in Turkish - Armenian relations
          Hasan Selim Ozertem
        • Remembering The Orly Attack
          Maxime Gauin
        • The Misuse Of "memoirs Of Count Bernstorff" In Armenian Nationalist Publications
          Maxime Gauin
        • An International Law Analysis Of The Flotilla Crisis Between Turkey And Israel
          Ceren MUTUS
        • Future Of Turkish-israeli Relations: What Next?
          Ozdem SANBERK