Europe is deeply divided over the Syrian refugee crisis.
Turkey is going through extraordinary times. Its democracy is being whittled down for the sake of the political interests of a certain individual and party.
Although the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) congress on Sept. 12 was billed as a “regular congress,” there was nothing “regular” about it.
The main enemy of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party’s (HDP) turns out to be the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
There is a pointless blame-game going on over Syria, with each country accusing someone else for the way things have gone there.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has little love lost for Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who he sees as a dictator that ousted the country’s democratically elected president in a military coup, and went on to stage-manage an election to give himself the appearance of being a democratic leader.
Turkey has a serious problem with its international image. An increasing number of people around the world see the country as a breeding ground and facilitator of Islamic terrorism.
The report by McClatchy, the U.S. publishing company, alleging that Turkish intelligence tipped off the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, and led to the recent routing by the group of opposition forces trained in Turkey by the U.S., has seriously ruffled Ankara’s feathers
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans for keeping opposition parties out of government and driving Turkey to an early election appear to be working.
