The deadly Suruç attack that claimed the lives of 32 activist youngsters and wounded around 100 others is itself a declaration of war by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Turkey
Only a few days after Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers announced their historic deal on the former’s nuclear program, a top Hamas delegation went to Saudi Arabia to hold talks with new King Salman for the first meeting between the two sides in years.
The second day of coalition talks yielded a surprise, as Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli openly told Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu they will not take part in a coalition government.
One of the worst but least told aspects of the four-year old Syrian civil war is the human tragedy of millions of Syrians who had to leave their homes to flee the violence committed by either the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime or terror organizations.
It’s been a month since Turkey concluded parliamentary elections that took away the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) 13 years of self-rule and instead obliged political parties to share power.
A general review on the state of affairs around Turkey’s immediate neighborhood would plainly show that it’s surrounded with a chaotic wave, from Europe to the Balkans; from Eurasia to the Caucasus; from the Middle East to North Africa.
This column on Nov. 14, 2012, described Turkey’s border with Syria as the most dangerous frontier in the world, underlining the risks for the Turkish army at that time, while urging the Turkish government over provocative attempts aiming to drag it into its southern neighbor’s civil war
The two relative losers of the June 7 elections, Justice and Development Party (AKP) head Ahmet Davutoğlu and Republican People’s Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, are clearly the leaders with the best post-election performance.
Turkey’s parliament convened June 23, two weeks after general elections that gave none of the four parties to cross the 10 percent national threshold enough seats to form a single-party government
