The PKK has been fighting the Turkish state for more than 40 years. Whether peace can take root will depend on each side’s commitment to a credible peace process.
- Dean of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University
The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits gives Turkey control over the water route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has headed off a political humiliation, but making good on his extravagant promises won’t be easy.
Konflik Suriah adalah perang banyak pihak. Berikut ini kepentingan para pemain kunci.
The Syrian conflict is a war of many sides. Here’s a rundown of the key players.
After years of creeping authoritarianism, Turkey’s president is now set up to take the reins in earnest.
La stratégie du Président turc, qui divise pour mieux régner, pourrait lui jouer des tours dans le contexte d’insécurité grandissante qui mine le pays.
The divisive tactics that put Turkey’s president in control could yet be his undoing.
Turkey is recovering from a failed coup, not a war, but it could learn from the practice of post-conflict reconstruction.
Alp Ozerdem reports from Turkey on a violent, thwarted attempt to take over the country by force. It was a bizarre night of botched announcements and presidential Facetime calls.
Politically unstable and bordering the world’s most violent and volatile region, Turkey is at risk of descending into civil war.
While the world struggles to even get to the negotiating table, the Syrian refugee crisis is still getting worse.
Tensions at home and abroad make the latest attack by Islamic State particularly difficult to bear.
At an incredibly sensitive moment, the world’s leaders are gathering in an incredibly sensitive country.
After a terrible summer of violence and political deadlock, things only seem to be getting worse for Turkey. Why?
Unrest has spread to Istanbul where the US consulate has been attacked.
Since 2011, more than 3.2m Syrians are known to have taken refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and a number of other countries. The real scale of the crisis is likely to be much greater, as not all refugees…
When armed conflict becomes a fact of everyday life, and generations grow up knowing nothing else, imagining life in a state of peace is hard work. The fragile state of Turkey’s negotiations with Kurdish…
The ongoing humanitarian tragedy of Kobanê has raised serious questions about the future of the Kurds. The unstoppable advance of Islamic State (IS) over the last few months has already scrambled the power…
Kobanê, a small Kurdish town on the Syrian-Turkish border, has now become the ultimate test of Turkey’s ambivalence on how to engage the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the rapidly worsening situation…
In an era where it seems violent conflict is spreading, almost unchecked, in so many parts of the world, we take it for granted that it is the responsibility of a group of traditional world powers, among…
One of the worst mining tragedies in Turkish history, the explosion at the Soma coal mine has taken at least 282 lives and many more miners remain unaccounted for. I come from a town 13kms away from the…
The long-standing and, hitherto, powerful government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is under unprecedented pressure after one of the strangest fortnights in recent Turkish political history. Some key allies and…
When it comes to the thorny issue of Islamisation in Turkey, most external commentators focus on whether Turkey is becoming more Islamic in its governance, and what this would mean for Western interests…
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