Published by Turkish Policy Quarterly 7 March 2016 The Republic of Turkey is ill. The violent upheaval taking place just over the border in Iraq and Syria have laid bare the flaws in the very foundation of its present administrative structure. To keep the republic on...
Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers aim weapons during training led by members of the Dutch Army at a shooting range in Irbil, northern Iraq. (AP Photo / Alice Martins) Published by The Nation 14 March 2016 They’ve been the most effective fighting force against ISIS. But they...
An ambulance arrives after an explosion in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 17, 2016. Twenty-nine people were killed in a suicide attack in the Turkish capital. (photo by REUTERS/Umit Bektas) It was July 6, 2005. The location was Kusadasi, Turkey, a prominent tourism center on...
The preamble to the NATO treaty states that their member states are “determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law”...
Refugees on the Greek-Macedonian border: ‘We should fast-track the establishment of a well-funded European border and coastguard service, capable of managing the EU’s external border and processing asylum claims, instead of relying on Turkey to do this for us.’...
“Twenty percent of the Syrians arriving in Greece were families without a husband or a father,” said Grandi (Photo:Fotomovimiento) Published by EU Observer 8 March 2016 Plans by the EU and Turkey to expel anyone, including Syrians, who used smugglers to...
