Our own Serkan Demirtaş is one of the best connected journalists in Ankara.
In the past it has never been love that reminded Europe of Turkey’s importance for the West.
We are seeing a repeat of the same old film.
Turkey has never been as deeply divided as it is today.
Turkey may be directing defiant remarks at Russia for its military operations in Syria and its violation of Turkish airspace, but there is little that Ankara can do on its own in this regard.
Turkey’s EU ties are back on the agenda again with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Brussels this week.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has turned out to be the main catalyzer of developments in Syria, putting powers which are otherwise rivals in a more cooperative mode over this crisis. But what does this mean in terms of Turkey’s expectations?
There is a flurry of new activity on Syria but none of it has Bashar al-Assad’s departure as the principle aim
The June elections showed that the supposedly unbeatable AKP has lost its magic and demonstrated that the classic rule of politics, namely, that time eats away at the support of any party in a democracy, is also valid in this case.
