Το μήνυμα του Έρντογαν είναι σαφές: η Τουρκία δεν θα ευθυγραμμίζεται τυφλά με το ΝΑΤΟ σε κάθε ζήτημα. Αντίθετα, διατηρεί τη στρατηγική της αυτονομία και δεν επιτρέπει σε καμία συμμαχία να υπαγορεύει τ...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan doesn’t want others defining Turkey’s choices. He’s seeking a better position within an existing world order and recognition that Turkey is entitled to forge its own path.

Is Israel deliberately weakening states and sustaining regional divisions to secure its position rather than pursuing a stable peace?

Notes from a presentation of the film at The Cinematheque, Vancouver (March 14, 2026)

The complex histories of post-Kemalism and the current moment

The institution was one of Turkey's first private universities.

This book explores Turkey’s transformation into an active and influential emerging power under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It argues that populist gover...

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Israel’s recent actions are changing the Middle East by weakening state capacity and sustaining regional tensions.

Nazanin Shahrokni rethinks the meaning of transnational solidarity, understood as a political intervention stretched across an uneven geopolitical landscape.

Αυτή μπορεί να είναι η τελευταία ευκαιρία των Κυπρίων να διασφαλίσουν ότι τα πολλά εμπόδια που τους χωρίζουν για περισσότερα από 50 χρόνια θα καταργηθούν.

The recent election in Northern Cyprus of a pro-unification Turkish Cypriot may be the last chance for the island to unite.

＜カタールは中東問題の仲介役のような立ち位置であり、アメリカはその役割を後押ししていた＞ 単なる「武装組織への攻撃」にとどまらない出来事だった。イスラエル軍は9月9日、パレスチナ自治区ガザでの停戦を協...

Israel’s strike on Qatar undermines diplomacy, casts doubt on U.S. security guarantees and entrenches a state of permanent war in the Middle East.

As Israel and Turkey entrench themselves further in Syria’s geography and political future, the question is not whether Syria will be whole again, but whether the Middle East can avoid becoming a regi...

Israel’s strikes in Syria, framed as protecting the Druze, reflect a strategy to fragment the Syrian state and secure Israel’s role as the dominant regional power.

State media says armed groups violated the truce agreed in the predominantly Druze region.

Israel’s strikes in Syria, framed as protecting the Druze, reflect a strategy to fragment the Syrian state and secure Israel’s role as the dominant regional power.

Israel’s military actions —in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and now Iran — reflect the melding of Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic political survival and his revisionist aims to reshape the regional order.

Populism has emerged as a transformative force in global politics, questioning the legitimacy of liberal democratic institutions and reshaping the contours o...

By Spyros A. Sofos, Simon Fraser University (The Conversation) - Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian territory have been widely framed as an act of deterrence or yet another episode in a protracted reg...

Israel’s military actions —in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and now Iran — reflect the melding of Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic political survival and his revisionist aims to reshape the regional order.

Israel’s military actions —in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon and now Iran — reflect the melding of Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic political survival and his revisionist aims to reshape the regional order.

In a timely and far-reaching interview with the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Dr. Spyros Sofos—Assistant Professor in Global Humanities at

In a timely and far-reaching interview with the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Dr. Spyros Sofos—Assistant Professor in Global Humanities at

＜分離独立を求めてきたPKKが停戦を宣言。エルドアンの「野心」について＞ イスラム教スンニ派が多数を占めるトルコでラマダン（断食月）が始まった3月1日、武装組織クルド労働者党（PKK）が停戦を発表した...

＜分離独立を求めてきたPKKが停戦を宣言。エルドアンの「野心」について＞ イスラム教スンニ派が多数を占めるトルコでラマダン（断食月）が始まった3月1日、武装組織クルド労働者党（PKK）が停戦を発表した...

Erdoğan’s outreach to Kurdish forces may signal peace — or a bid to secure support for extending his presidency by fracturing the opposition’s coalition.

Erdoğan’s outreach to Kurdish forces may signal peace — or a bid to secure support for extending his presidency by fracturing the opposition’s coalition.

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