Dr Said Elhaj* Millions of Turkish voters are heading to the polls on June 24 to take part in the early presidential and parliamentary elections which are viewed as the most important, sensitive and complicated [ More … ]
By: Aydın Ünal* One-hundred-and-two years ago today, on Dec. 26, 1914, it was understood that the Sarıkamış Operation would be unsuccessful, thus the course of the war was changed. Russian Commander Maslofski says, “The Turks nearly [ More … ]
Aysel Tugluk has been detained as part of an investigation carried out by Diyarbakir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office Police detained a senior official of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Ankara on Monday morning, [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* It isn’t possible to explain the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) recently accelerated attacks with its own performance, scope or capacity. Nor can it be explained with the internal tension and conflict within [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* Turkey’s involvement in Syria via Jarabulus has undoubtedly brought hope for the Syrian people. Because, in every place Turkey stepped into, the inhabitants of that place returned to their homes and those [ More … ]
By: Ömer Lekesiz* I started writing my column by closely monitoring the news that appeared on my screen about a bomb-laden vehicle being blasted in the area between the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) [ More … ]
By: Özlem Albayrak* The history of this patience dates back to just after the Bashar Assad regime started its massacres in Syria. First of all, the Syrians who fled Assad’s oppression swarmed into Turkey. Some [ More … ]
By: İLNUR ÇEVIK* Mr. Biden is the first and only Western leader who visited Ankara after the failed coup. He will see for himself the depths of Turkish sentiments after the coup and hopefully report [ More … ]
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