by Said Abdul Razzak | May 22, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara – After recently winning over sweeping powers by a referendum’s yes vote, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected to head the nation’s ruling party. Erdogan has just returned to rule the Justice and Development Party (AKP) after 998 days of...
by Saeed Abdelrazek | Feb 23, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara – For the first time since the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, the ministry of defense announced on Wednesday its decision to lift the ban on female officers wearing the veil. The new measure follows a series of similar steps taken in police,...
by Said Abdul Razzak | Sep 11, 2016 | Features
Ankara- The appointment of Mevlut Cavusoglu to head the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs twice in 2015 can’t be separated from the political frame of the policy adopted by the AKP-Justice and Development party since 2003. Cavusoglu was appointed as a Minister of...
by Amir Taheri | Jul 25, 2016 | Opinion
As Turkey’s political drama continues, it is important to bear two things in mind when trying to analyze the situation. The first is that Turkey is a major country with a vital role to play in what is now the most dangerously unstable region in the world. A stable...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 21, 2016 | Opinion
Those who rushed to analyse and take positions on the coup in Turkey have another chance to re-evaluate the situation. Neither the army as an institution nor the secular opposition was responsible for the attempted coup. Rather, the attempted coup was undertaken by...
