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In this photo provided by the Turkish Prime Minister’s Office, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan salutes supporters from the balcony of his ruling party headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, early Monday, on March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer, Turkish Prime Minister’s Press Office)
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Riot police stand guard in front of the Russian Consulate as Circassians living in Turkey gather to protest against Sochi Winter Olympics in Istanbul (REUTERS/Osman Orsal )
Sochi’s Buried Tragedy
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...Caption:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan walks with his walks with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri Al-Maliki in a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, on August 7, 2007. (AFP/Getty Images)
Debate: Turkey can still play an active role in the Middle East
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...Caption:
Fethullah Gulen is pictured at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, in this December 28, 2004 file photo. Reuters
Gülenists’ Changing Fortunes
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...Caption:
Turkish and European Union flags fly together as people walk under them at Taksim Square on May 24, 2013, in Istanbul. AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic