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[OPINION] The time has come for a new EU strategy for Turkey

Mehmet Efe Çaman COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION, two carrots of the European Union, are considered influential and effective policy tools that enable the transformation of candidate and associated...

[OPINION] What Ankara’s Kurdish policy in Syria reveals about Turkey’s regime

To better understand Turkey’s Syria policy, particularly toward Syrian Kurds, we must look at historic events. And to better understand Turkey’s current regime, we...

[OPINION] Writing Turkey a new story

OPINION | MEHMET EFE ÇAMAN I believe that not only people but also countries have stories to tell. I guess Mr. Mehmet Göçmen, the CEO...

[OPINION] Funeral oration for a lost country

Mehmet Efe Çaman The subjective mourning of an academic in exile Does thinking hurt? Sometimes it does, especially when thinking about the past. Things change in...

[OPINION] The end of globalism?

Ekrem Dumanlı France is boiling. Politicians have been trying to understand enraged crowds that took to the streets. Intellectuals, academics and journalists have exerted a...

[OPINION] ISIL and al-Qaeda booksellers are thriving in Erdoğan’s Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt An al-Qaeda-linked bookstore owner in Istanbul who has been selling jihadist books to Turks continues to operate without many obstacles despite a clear...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s war on books and publishing houses

Abdullah Bozkurt The untold part of the story about the unprecedented attack on freedom of the press in Turkey is the toll the crackdown, launched...

[OPINION] Erdoğan, a modern-day Don Quixote, fights millions of monsters in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Just like in the novel by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, who created a fictional character named Don Quixote who jousts with windmills...

[OPINION] The murder of the Russian ambassador exposes Erdoğan’s jihadist friends

Abdullah Bozkurt Despite attempts by the Islamist government in Turkey to hush up the investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov and falsely...

[OPINION] Erdoğan’s caliphate dream put in motion in Turkey

Abdullah Bozkurt Further evidence was revealed in Turkey earlier this month accentuating the long-held ambitions of the corrupt President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to steer the...

[OPINION] Fundamentals of the alliance between Turkey and the US undermined

Abdullah Bozkurt The fundamentals of the security cooperation between Turkey and the United States have been seriously challenged and undermined by the government of President...

[OPINION] Al-Qaeda and ISIL outfits operate in Turkey under charity cover

Abdullah Bozkurt Two front aid groups that operate in Turkey’s southeastern border provinces near Syria, led by known militants of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State...

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