DANIEL PIPES
There appears to be agreement on the basic facts: a Turkish F-4 violated Syrian airspace and the Syrian military shot it down over its territorial waters.
TURKEY’S SCHADENFREUDE
BURHAN GURDOGAN
As it comes from the German words, Schaden and Freude, damage and joy, which means to take spiteful, malicious delight in other’s misfortunes. In 2002 an article appeared in New York Times explaining scientific studies of schadenfreude, which it defined as “delighting in others’ misfortune”./strong
TOWARDS THE FULFILLMENT OF A DREAM: TURKEY OR KURDISTAN?
IDREES MOHAMMED
As Shiites-inspired politics go through an uncertain phase- amid the mounting pressure on Iran, and Syria’s standoff continues despite a significant investment in diplomacy, through the conflicting stance of Turkey and Iran – Iraq’s sectarian tension has hit a high point as the steady accumulation of disputes among political partners explodes, unleashing an even bigger risk to the country’s already challenged unity.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “MODERATE” AND “RADICAL” ISLAMISM?
MICHAEL RUBIN
Labels are always dangerous things. In the context of the U.S. policy debate, pundits attach labels to opponents in order to avoid debating issues or in order to construct straw man arguments.
NEW DATA ON ATTITUDES TO NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATIONS
ONNIK KRIKORIAN
On 1 March 2012 the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) and Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) held a one-day conference on Turkey’s South Caucasus Agenda: Roles of State and Non-State Actors.
TURKISH – ARMENIAN SERIES PART II: ALTERNATIVE DIPLOMACIES
TUGCE ERCETIN
During the second half of the twentieth century, civil society organizations became an important factor in enforcing harmony within communities by highlighting civil, political, social, and environmental rights for all people.
ERDOGAN’S DILEMMA
DANI RODRIK
Imagine you are the leader of a regional power, basking in the glow of global attention to your political and economic success. You have managed to consolidate your power by outmaneuvering your opponents, most critically the military with its habit of pushing out governments not of its liking. You are celebrated the world over as a flawed, but transformative and visionary leader of an emerging democracy.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
DIMPOOL NEWS
Over the past year, while economic woes captured world headlines, an ongoing crisis of equal breadth and scope frequently went unnoticed.
SYRIAN KURDS: CONTEXTUAL IRONY AND RAMIFICATIONS ON TURKEY
IDREES MOHAMMED
Syria’s current crisis could possibly end in an ironic scenario for Syrian Kurds that will have both positive and negative ramifications for Turkey.
TURKISH – ARMENIAN SERIES PART I: RELATIONS ON POLITICAL AND CULTURAL BASIS
TUGCE ERCETIN
International relations involve wars, agreements, conflicts, treaties, resolutions, rebellions, peace, cooperation etc. It means that international politics is really dynamic and multi-dimensional, therefore it has complexity all the time.Every state has different interests, capabilities and ideologies.
FRENCH – TURC RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF SARKOZY
GIZEM AKTAS
Over the decades, relations between Turkey and France have certainly been marked by many crises, but each time, the seniority of trade between the two countries, the influential presence of culture Francophone in Turkey allowed them to overcome and bounce back positively.
TURKEY AND FRANCE: IN THE SHADE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAW
GIZEM AKTAS
On January 23, 2012 the French Senate passed a law, which criminalizing the denial of the mass killings including Armenians’ perpetrated between 1915 and 1917.