Massoud Barzani eats at the White House with Bush and with the representatives at the European Parliament. He tours Europe and makes friends with the leaders. What happens when returns to his country? Turkey has ‘demoted’ him to tribal chieftain. He’s denied admittance. He’s nobody. This is the attitude that disturbs Barzani most. It […]
The arrival of US State Secretary Rice today signals the start of very risky and difficult diplomatic negotiations for Turkey. The first item on the agenda will be to thank the Bush administration for blocking the Armenian project. The next issue however, will be much more difficult to handle: The PKK presence in northern […]
The government provides no information or guidance. Consequently journalists write what they see and hear. When the authorities don’t like it, they get out their sticks and accuse journalists of provoking the public. We don’t know what to do. In Europe and America, crisis management is very different. The state provides a lot of […]
The readers of this column will remember how I repeatedly underlined the same points: 1) A military operation into north Iraq was not a priority for Turkey, but settling the issue through diplomatic channels was 2) The PKK was doing its utmost to involve Turkey in north Iraq 3) A new attack would set […]
It is time to lend an ear to the cries of the Turkish citizens that live in other countries and especially in Europe (we should call them the Turkish diaspora in short) or of others that love Turkey and wish to protest the injustices against it. Especially the rulers and the bureaucrats of our country […]