Turkey2023DemocracyThe Love for Erdogan's Autocracy in the Heart of German DemocracyCultural ties fuel German-Turkish diaspora's support for Erdogan's autocracy, a paradox threatening to stall Turkey's progress in the 21st century. 2021CyprusThe new UN-peacekeeping budget: pun intended!At the end of June, the budget for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022 was approved by the United Nations. Eye-watering sums have been allocated in order to maintain buffers between hostilities that have been stewing for decades. 2020TurkeyHagia Sophia: National Sovereignty is not the Issue, Erdogan Likes to Play the Blaming GameA cathedral first, then a mosque, and later a museum. Last week, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia became a mosque once again; an insular act for Turkey’s Erdogan to flex his political mussels and to fuel his posture of indignation and grievance. 2019KurdistanHow the recent conflicts in Syria could shape its futureWhat happened? Although people are long used to the erratic twists and turns of Donald Trump, his decision to sell the Kurds down the river by withdrawing American troops from Syria caught everyone by surprise. Whether Trump was right to extricate his forces from Syria remains debatable, but just as there is rarely a good time to start international military interventions, so there is rarely a good time to discontinue them.
DemocracyThe Love for Erdogan's Autocracy in the Heart of German DemocracyCultural ties fuel German-Turkish diaspora's support for Erdogan's autocracy, a paradox threatening to stall Turkey's progress in the 21st century.
CyprusThe new UN-peacekeeping budget: pun intended!At the end of June, the budget for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022 was approved by the United Nations. Eye-watering sums have been allocated in order to maintain buffers between hostilities that have been stewing for decades.
TurkeyHagia Sophia: National Sovereignty is not the Issue, Erdogan Likes to Play the Blaming GameA cathedral first, then a mosque, and later a museum. Last week, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia became a mosque once again; an insular act for Turkey’s Erdogan to flex his political mussels and to fuel his posture of indignation and grievance.
KurdistanHow the recent conflicts in Syria could shape its futureWhat happened? Although people are long used to the erratic twists and turns of Donald Trump, his decision to sell the Kurds down the river by withdrawing American troops from Syria caught everyone by surprise. Whether Trump was right to extricate his forces from Syria remains debatable, but just as there is rarely a good time to start international military interventions, so there is rarely a good time to discontinue them.
