After a long government meeting, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took a four-hour flight to England to deliver a speech at Oxford University. I joined him, and although we had a simple yet sincere hour-long conversation, 90 percent of it was ‘’off the record.’’ That said, I can only write my ‘’impressions’’ about the […]
On the morning of the referendum on Sunday we woke up to the news of the bloody developments that took place in the southeastern province Hakkari. The public rage caused by the Gabar ambush by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) resulted in the parliamentary approval of a cross-border operation. But this time the wave […]
With the endorsement of the cross-border bill by Parliament Wednesday, Turkey has stepped into a new period of uncertainties.
I am one of those who know that the motion approved does not mean an imminent “military operation” in depth because I am aware that the government presenting the proposal to Parliament, or more precisely, to […]
For days Turkish politics has focused on the “scenario” discussed at a Washington-based think-tank, Hudson Institute. Let’s first note that there is nothing abnormal with a Washington-based think tank discussing such a scenario.
I spent 1999 and 2000 at the Washington-based “intellectual research center” Wilson Center and the think tank United States Institute of […]
Kissinger sees that Turkey’s concerns about PKK are just and legitimate. However, he believes, a military intervention in northern Iraq is not the ‘formula’ of prevention; that even will result in Turkey being trapped in Iraq and this does not suit for interests of not only the U.S. but also Turkey.
I approached Henry Kissinger […]