Recent Commentary

• What if Turkey’s snap election results in a split government and parliament?

  
  Kerim Balci

  11 Jun 2018

  When Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) decided to go for a snap election, its main fear was an emerging public tendency to vote...   Read More

• A preliminary note on the candidates of the Justice and Development Party for the June 24 election

  
  Kerim Balci

  25 May 2018

  Turkish citizens voted in a national referendum in April 2017 to change their system of governance into an executive presidential one, effectively ending the...   Read More

• Israel continues to give political Islamists kisses of life

  
  Turgut Mehmetoglu

  25 May 2018

  The US decision to move their embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was clearly unfair, untimely and provocative. This was also going against international...   Read More