Monthly Archives: February 2016

Offensive statements and distasteful posturing displayed publicly by Turkey’s macho Islamist leaders towards nations of small territories are nothing but a reflection of their xenophobic characters that more resemble those seen in Third World radicalism or the self-aggrandizing disdain for … Continue reading →

Nothing other than the sham trials and farcical indictments against critics and opponents in Turkey — unprecedented in magnitude, scope and intensity — best demonstrate the paranoid and xenophobic nature of the regime of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose … Continue reading →

Independent of the apathetic European “horse-trading” approach towards refugees and wealthy Gulf States’ reluctance to carry their share of the burden, one can make rather convincing arguments on why Turkey has, by and large, been left alone in the tackling … Continue reading →

The government’s failure to rally the nation in the face of the recent carnage in the Turkish capital that claimed the lives of 28 people in a deadly terror attack in the heart of the city shows how the security … Continue reading →

Turkey’s Islamist rulers have effectively neutered the draft bill on the protection of personal data by entrusting the implementation and monitoring of the legislation to hand-picked members of the Personal Data Protection Board who will be selected by Turkey’s autocratic … Continue reading →

The rupture in ties between Turkey and Egypt, which should have been patched a long time ago, is not likely to be mended any time soon, considering how President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his political Islamist associates in the government … Continue reading →

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s strong dislike for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), displayed once again, perhaps stronger than ever before, during his visit to Peru as part of a three-country Latin America tour, has more to do with sustaining … Continue reading →