Talks, that revolutions may be inspired, organized and sponsored by someone (God forbid from overseas!) are ill manbners in a fine society(especially with the liberal and progressive views). The canonical version of any socio-political take-over as presented by the authors,…

On Tuesday, June 11, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdoğan could restrain himself no longer and ordered the protesters’ tent city in Istanbul’s Taksim Square dismantled. Turkish riot police surrounded by armored vehicles with water cannons succeeded in occupying the…

Despite the tough actions taken by the police to disperse demonstrators, the protest rallies that long ago snowballed from environmental demonstrations into political demands directed at Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are…

Having provided active support to the rebellion in neighboring Syria in conjunction with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdoğan clearly did not expect that the wave of upheavals would eventually come his way. But it happened…

A number of external and internal factors have recently caused the Turkish authorities to soften their policies towards the Kurdish minority and try to solve the Kurdish problem through peaceful means. Ankara has long ignored Kurds’ demands for the same…

Turkey’s active involvement in overthrowing the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria since virtually the beginning of the protest movements (March 15, 2011) that evolved into a civil war has not resulted in Ankara achieving its goal. Syrian President Assad is…

The OSCE Minsk Group cochairmen, Igor Popov (Russia), Jacques Faure (France) and Ian Kelly (United States), issued a surprise brief statement after meeting with the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov. It says the mediators working…