Fortunately, this time, Mr. Erdoğan’s crooked understanding of democracy will do good for Turkey. A full-scale military incursion into northern Iraq no matter what the specified operational objectives might be is not a good idea.
The House of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been very keen on going for the “nation’s will” in […]
If any other party boasted what AKP has achieved in the last five years, with its goods and bads, it would probably win nearly half of the national vote. Are the Turks masochists? Do they have a special fetish for economic crises and poverty? What might be the reason if AKP should be the most […]
Rightly or wrongly, Mr. Erdogan and his governance since 2002 have been perceived by many Turks as “collaborators.” The root cause of the “rising Turkish nationalism” is the ‘lenience’ Mr. Erdogan’s government is perceived to have displayed vis-à-vis what a majority of Turks view as enemy.
This is a selected assortment of book titles on […]
Five years ago, Turkey’s Kurds enjoyed much less rights than they do today. Since then there has been a ‘reformist’ prime minister in power, and many EU-sealed reforms. Oddly, five years ago coffins were not arriving in abundance like they do today.
The recent wave of Kurdish violence against Turkish targets is first-class proof of […]
Mr Erdoğan may be a true fighter, a genuine survivor; but he is certainly not a good chess player. Every move he makes, every word he speaks these days causes shy smiles, if not loud laughter, at the enemy HQ.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the first Turkish prime minister who spoke about the “Kurdish problem.” […]