There is no doubt that 2016 will be marked as the year of the EU for Turkey
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s tour to two opposition parties, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), yielded important results, as three parties have agreed on three top issues
The last week of 2015 witnessed how the discussions have focused again on the adoption of the presidential system as part of the new constitution although Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu did not seem very willing to place it on the top of his immediate agenda
The headlines of prominent Turkish newspapers heralded the coming of peace and comfort to Turkey late February of this year when the AKP and the HDP announced what they called the “Dolmabahçe Agreement,” constituting of a road map to accomplish a Kurdish peace process
It’s been nearly a week since news broke about secret talks between Turkish and Israeli officials in a bid to accomplish the normalization process by sealing a long-negotiated deal
It was Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), who first likened the state of affairs in Turkey’s southeastern cities with Syrian provinces that have been the theater of nearly five years of clashes between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and opposition groups
Recently intensified dialogue between Turkey and the EU has already produced the opening of chapter 17, which addresses economic and monetary policy, on Dec. 14, nearly two years after the last chapter was opened
Dec. 14 will mark another important day in Turkey’s bumpy EU accession process, as an EU intergovernmental conference will convene to open Chapter 17 on economy and monetary policy, nearly two years after Turkey opened the last one
The pace of developments in our neighborhood is so fast and intense that neither diplomats nor academics and journalists can spare additional time to analyze individual incidents or make good assessments before establishing sound policies and reporting about them
