by Barçin Yinanç | Mar 31, 2014 | Majalla Blogs
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has incurred every assault imaginable in the lead up to Sunday’s municipal elections. Now those who voted against the AKP in Sunday’s polls are in shock, wondering what it will take to harm the ruling party after it...
by Barçin Yinanç | Feb 3, 2014 | Majalla Blogs
Last month I was one of three torchbearers from Turkey to participate in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics relay. While I happily carried the Olympic flame for 300 meters in Nizhny Novgorod—Russia’s fifth largest city—the honor was overshadowed somewhat by all the...
by Barçin Yinanç | Jan 18, 2014 | Debate
While it does partially reflect the truth, the notion that Turkey’s zero problems with its neighbors has turned into zero good relations with any neighbor has become a boring cliché. Indeed, there is a stark difference between the popularity Turkey enjoyed in both the...
by Barçin Yinanç | Dec 18, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
At the NATO headquarters in Brussels, a Turkish diplomat greeted a passing delegation in his mother tongue. “They are Albanian diplomats. They are the F type,” he told me. By “F type,” he meant that they were graduates of the schools in Albania run by followers of...
by Barçin Yinanç | Aug 30, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
Turkey recently announced its first contact with pygmies in a headline carried by the semi-official Anatolia News Agency. Some 3,000 pygmies in central Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo will be attending literacy courses and vocational training provided by the...
