The clock has started ticking. Whether you like it or not, the ballot box is coming to a school near you very soon.
When two global superpowers decide to end a war, it happens. It looks like this will be the outcome in Syria after Russia’s latest overture.
Three years of negotiations and three decades of fighting has turned the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) into something other than its initial cause.
He would dream of being a veterinarian perhaps. Or maybe an engineer. From the war-torn city of Kobane, he and his family had come to the resort town of Bodrum.
Turkey’s political decision makers could have read the Arab Spring in a much different way.
“They have not started the real fight yet,” my source told me. He was a man from Tunceli, in his 50s, once a leading member of a leftist group, now the founder of an NGO.
The Turkish Republic, just like the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago, is heading into its longest year.
Turkey’s top soldier is assuming his responsibilities at a very critical time.
On a bright summer day in the eastern town of Malazgirt, while driving into the marketplace in plainclothes and in the company of his wife and daughter, Maj.
