When Presidents Erdoğan and Putin announced their agreement over Idlib in Sochi on 17th September 2018, it was considered a positive development for most parties, especially for the civilian population of the ... Read More...

A major characteristic of Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, one that he has mastered during his political career, is the ability to adapt to conditions, especially when he can’t adjust conditions to his views. The latt... Read More...

There are two main conclusions from the pastor’s case and the US-Turkey relations. The first is that the Brunson case, despite reaching the front pages of American newspapers, was never at the core of the U... Read More...

The 24th of June elections have introduced to Turkey a new constitution, a powerful President and a renewed alliance in the parliament (Türk Büyük Millet Meclisi). Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has achieved his goal... Read More...

Turkey’s 24 June elections are arguably the most critical in the country’s last 40 years of political history. The 2017 constitution referendum has defined the new presidential system of government that wil... Read More...

  When Turkey entered a State of Emergency in the wake of the 15 July 2016 coup attempt, nobody expected that almost two years later it would still remain in force. It was declared under the general... Read More...

Turkey’s relations with Syria either direct –bilateral or regionally multilateral- or indirect -through Turkey’s bilateral and multilateral alliances, i.e. Israel in the 1990s and NATO- have never been far from... Read More...

On March 1, there was a seemingly harmless incident on the Greek-Turkish border in the Evros district of Western Thrace. Two Greek soldiers, as they were patrolling along the border under heavy snowfall, lookin... Read More...