Cengiz Aktar

Al­though visa-free trav­el is the right of Turk­ish cit­i­zens, wide­spread Tur­co­pho­bia in Eu­rope might pre­vent it.

The sud­den in­ter­est of both par­ties in each oth­er is en­tire­ly due to the refugee cri­sis.

The pres­i­dent has be­come an anx­ious man try­ing to en­sure his fu­ture at all costs.

Po­lit­i­cal progress may still oc­cur and heal­ing may start be­tween the peo­ple and their gov­ern­ment.

The elec­tion of a pro-uni­fi­ca­tion leader in North­ern Cyprus may pave the way for the tiny is­land to fi­nal­ly be re­unit­ed.

As the cen­te­nary of the mass killings nears, Turk­ish of­fi­cials will lam­bast any­one who dares uses the ‘G-word’.

Turkey’s mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion in Syr­ia was an act of com­pul­sion rather than free will.

The Char­lie Heb­do con­tro­ver­sy may put an end to what­ev­er press free­dom is left in Turkey.

Rewrit­ing his­to­ry ac­cord­ing to one’s own re­li­gious be­liefs is a high­ly con­tro­ver­sial and per­ilous en­ter­prise.

In­con­sis­tent Turk­ish poli­cies and fear of the birth of a Kur­dish na­tion-state are bungling re­gion­al