BARÇIN YİNANÇ

10 percent of Turkish Red Crescent works under high risk BARÇIN YİNANÇ

10 percent of Turkish Red Crescent works under high risk

The Turkish Red Crescent Society, Kızılay in Turkish, is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Expanding its activities abroad, Kızılay has become one of the key institutions to project Turkey’s soft power. Kızılay’s increasing activities in the former Ottoman lands have also drawn criticism against Turkey that it is pursuing neo-Ottoman aspirations.

January 30 2019
From the Arab Spring to Venezuela, Turkey’s allergy to outside intervention BARÇIN YİNANÇ

From the Arab Spring to Venezuela, Turkey’s allergy to outside intervention

Due to the intensity of the agenda in Turkey I had no time to read about the political situation in Sri Lanka, so it was only after arriving on this beautiful island in the first week of last December that I realized the country was in the midst of a very serious political crisis.

January 28 2019
#10yearchallenge: The headscarf issue in Turkey BARÇIN YİNANÇ

#10yearchallenge: The headscarf issue in Turkey

The #10YearChallenge has led to a trend on Turkish Twitter where women are sharing photos of themselves before and after they’ve removed their headscarves. 

January 23 2019
Turkish economic circles say lessons learned on dealing with Trump BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Turkish economic circles say lessons learned on dealing with Trump

There is news that a meteor will hit Earth. Everyone starts taking measures. What does the Turk do? He buys dollars.

January 16 2019
The right address of Trump’s words BARÇIN YİNANÇ

The right address of Trump’s words

To those who might rejoice from a potential new crisis between Washington and Ankara over Syria following the reciprocal tweets from both capitals, one should warn that it might be too early to become joyful.

January 14 2019
Where are we on civil-military relations in Turkey BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Where are we on civil-military relations in Turkey?

Paid military service was the most important election promise of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) ahead of presidential elections in June last year. Together with their families, six million men over the age of 18 make one of the country’s biggest lobbies.

January 09 2019
On Russia, Turkey and the Fener Greek Patriarchate BARÇIN YİNANÇ

On Russia, Turkey and the Fener Greek Patriarchate

“The poison still remains 45 percent; that’s a kind of poison that would not just leave the system,” former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has told journalists via a translator.

January 07 2019
Did Erdoğan say no to Putin on church issue BARÇIN YİNANÇ

Did Erdoğan say no to Putin on church issue?

It is 2008. Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew is preparing to go to Kiev. “The Russian intelligence knew that the visit’s aim was to give autocephaly status to the Ukrainian church,” a source familiar with the process had said.

January 07 2019
CHP’s candidate to use ‘universal rhetoric’ to appeal to Kurdish voters BARÇIN YİNANÇ

CHP’s candidate to use ‘universal rhetoric’ to appeal to Kurdish voters

Ekrem İmamoğlu praised Zakarya Mildanoğlu, an Armenian-Turkish architect, as being among one of the key figures who shaped his perspective on cities. “It is thanks to him that I started walking with my head up, looking at buildings and becoming curious about the fate of buildings from the past,” İmamoğlu, the main opposition party’s mayoral candidate for Istanbul Municipality, has said.

January 02 2019