TUGCE ERCETIN
During the second half of the twentieth century, civil society organizations became an important factor in enforcing harmony within communities by highlighting civil, political, social, and environmental rights for all people.
TEHRK-I TALIBAN PAKISTAN
GIZEM AKTAS
The Afghan Taliban is a Pashtun movement that emerged in the early 1990s in northern Pakistan. The Taliban came to prominence in Afghanistan in the autumn of 1994.
ERDOGAN’S DILEMMA
DANI RODRIK
Imagine you are the leader of a regional power, basking in the glow of global attention to your political and economic success. You have managed to consolidate your power by outmaneuvering your opponents, most critically the military with its habit of pushing out governments not of its liking. You are celebrated the world over as a flawed, but transformative and visionary leader of an emerging democracy.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
DIMPOOL NEWS
Over the past year, while economic woes captured world headlines, an ongoing crisis of equal breadth and scope frequently went unnoticed.
CHRISTIANS’ FUTURE IN THE IRAQI KURDISTAN
ABDULLA HAWEZ
As it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region’s revolutions will be the empowerment of Islamists, the Arab Spring threatens to become a nightmare for the Middle East’s Christian minority.
ORDEM E PROGRESSO PARA A SIRIA
YORIKIRII
The national flag of Brazil is a blue disc depicting a starry sky spanned by a curved band inscribed with the national motto, within a yellow rhombus, on a green field. Brazil officially adopted this design for its national flag in 1889.
SYRIAN KURDS: CONTEXTUAL IRONY AND RAMIFICATIONS ON TURKEY
IDREES MOHAMMED
Syria’s current crisis could possibly end in an ironic scenario for Syrian Kurds that will have both positive and negative ramifications for Turkey.
TURKISH – ARMENIAN SERIES PART I: RELATIONS ON POLITICAL AND CULTURAL BASIS
TUGCE ERCETIN
International relations involve wars, agreements, conflicts, treaties, resolutions, rebellions, peace, cooperation etc. It means that international politics is really dynamic and multi-dimensional, therefore it has complexity all the time.Every state has different interests, capabilities and ideologies.
FRENCH – TURC RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF SARKOZY
GIZEM AKTAS
Over the decades, relations between Turkey and France have certainly been marked by many crises, but each time, the seniority of trade between the two countries, the influential presence of culture Francophone in Turkey allowed them to overcome and bounce back positively.
TURKEY AND FRANCE: IN THE SHADE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LAW
GIZEM AKTAS
On January 23, 2012 the French Senate passed a law, which criminalizing the denial of the mass killings including Armenians’ perpetrated between 1915 and 1917.
CRISIS POINT FOR SYRIAN KURDS
IDREES MOHAMMED
Repressed for decades, the Syrian Kurds have been divided, marginalized and doubtful with respect to Syria crisis. Trusting neither Syria’s regime nor its opposition, the Kurds have declined to take an active role in anti-Assad protests.
MACHIAVELLI ON LIBYA, OR: FINDING THE NEW PRINCE
YORIKIRII
Bad news are coming out of Libya in the past month. The National Transitional Council (NTC) seems to be a transitional body itself, unable to give Libya any kind of stability and direction in the post Gaddafi era. Heavily armed militias – not signing up to a national agenda – have taken the law in their own hands, controlling territory here and fighting each other for influence there.