Mustafa Akyol

The way out of this bloody quag­mire would be to try to re­store the peace talks be­tween Turkey and the PKK.

Ankara now knows that ISIL is no coun­ter­bal­ance to Kur­dish resur­gence in north­ern Syr­ia.

The urge is to be­come a hero that shakes the world, in fame and glo­ry, which is not nec­es­sar­i­ly a re­li­gious pas­sion.

His au­thor­i­tar­i­an­ism and the us-ver­sus-them mod­el is the main rea­son why Turkey lost its shin­ing light.

Turkey’s mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions against Kur­dish sep­a­ratists are a le­git­i­mate act of self-de­fense, ac­cord­ing to an­a­lyst.