Transformation of the Political System in Turkey
By: Nebi Miş* A debate on changing the political system and adopting a new one in a country is all about political crisis that a country has been facing with for a while. In other [ More … ]
By: Nebi Miş* A debate on changing the political system and adopting a new one in a country is all about political crisis that a country has been facing with for a while. In other [ More … ]
After the European Parliament had voted in favor of a non-binding resolution, calling on the EU Commission and national governments to freeze the talks on Turkey’s European Union membership, the Turkey-EU tense relations became even [ More … ]
US President-elect Donald Trump’s future policy will deliver a boost to the world’s largest economy, but his promises over trade barriers could be the largest risk to global trade in 2017. According to a [ 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 … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* The image that the incidents in Syria is a sectarian war, is the image those who are managing the war are constantly trying to portray. Frankly, the language and motivation used by [ More … ]
By Amir Lakha* UN Charter designed 70 years ago is clearly out of date; we need innovative system for global crises. We are in the midst of one of the greatest humanitarian crises of our [ More … ]
Speaking in Istanbul, Khaled Mashaal demands immediate halt to building of settlements in occupied Palestinian territories Hamas leader Khaled Mashal has urged Israelto implement the recently-passed UN Security Council resolution demanding a halt in illegal [ More … ]
The fishermen returned to Yemen’s southern Al-Hudaydah province Egyptian authorities said Saturday 49 fishermen held by Houthi rebels in Yemen have been released. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement the freed fishermen returned to [ 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 … ]
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior has canceled the annual Le Marché, a leading furniture fair that has been held in Cairo for the past 32 years. Speaking to state media Al-Ahram, a security source said the event [ More … ]
A total of 12 Daesh terrorists were “neutralized” in Syria’s Al-Bab city during the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, according to the Turkish military. Turkish Armed Forces said on Sunday, a total of 140 Daesh targets including a military headquarters [ More … ]
Houthis fired a volley of rockets on Saudi positions A Saudi soldier was killed in an exchange of fire with Houthi rebels on border with war-torn Yemen on Saturday, according to the kingdom’s interior ministry. [ More … ]
Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that there are Egyptian institutions harboring, supporting, and funding terrorist groups in Ethiopia, during his interview on Al- Muqabla show aired on Al-Jazeera on Thursday. The Ethiopian prime minister’s [ More … ]
The United States’ State Department reintroduced on Friday Egypt to its travel warning list after briefly removing it in November. The new travel warning cited a number of terror attacks that include the bombing of [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* Almost all details of the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, were first published in the social media second by second, and then were presented to everyone’s sight. There is no [ More … ]
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