Generally speaking, two traditions – right-wing politics and the Left – have dominated Turkish politics over the years. This study aims to analyze...

One of the fiercest electoral battles fought in the Turkish political history, the March 30, 2014 local elections yielded results akin to an...

The December 17th process was started allegedly by a political move by the Gülen movement, which, until recently, had been seen as a religious...

Just after the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of three independent states in the South Caucasus Turkey started to manifest a real...

Iraq held parliamentary elections in April, the country’s first vote since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in December 2011. Although turnout was...

Hezbollah’s longstanding ties with the House of Assad lie at the core of its domestic and regional policies. Losing Assad would undermine...

As the Arab Spring unfolds, a new power configuration is emerging in the Middle East. Turkey is at the center of the new setting, with a fully...

The end of the Cold War marked the end of adversary patterns of alignment in the Middle East, and the ebbing dichotomy between the U.S. and USSR...

The Turkish-Kurdish peace process began in early 2013 and stalled soon after. During that period, the Kurds expected the government to release KCK...

Fire is both the symbol of revolution and its most potent weapon. Much like the American Revolution and other key historic events, the Arab Spring...

States often fall out or collaborate over issues to do with international migration whilst migrants through their very actions shape the...

During the months leading up to July 3, 2013, the state of Egypt mirrored that of Chile 40 years ago. What Egypt’s Mohamed Mursi and Chile’s...

Surveying today’s Middle Eastern and North African landscape offers few straws of hope. Iran’s reemergence producing a potential catalyst for a...

The anti-government protests in Turkey emerged as a legitimate and even necessary reaction against police brutality to evolved into violent revolts...

This essay interprets the Gezi Park protests that began as a local resistance to government plans to level a public park but quickly escalated into...

On August 5th, 2013, an Istanbul court reached its verdict in the Ergenekon coup plot trial, handing down various prison sentences to 247...

This brief commentary assesses the progress made by Turkey under the Justice and Development Party (the AK Party) toward European Union (EU)...

The Arab Spring gave rise to a variety of transitions in the Middle East. Although initial developments in Tunisia and Egypt created optimism,...

Egypt’s democratization efforts require domestic and international considerations: Domestically, the country must focus on the economy at the...

Turkey is achieved a viable combination of Islam, democracy and development. After prolonged periods of political instability and interruptions in...

The Occupy Gezi movement has been a staging ground for the creativity of micro-practices, and it embodies the importance of the politics of...

Although a lot has been said about the Gezi protests, analyses of the events consistently failed on two particular issues. First, in their efforts...

Civil protests began on May 27, 2013, in opposition to modernization works planned for Gezi Park near Taksim Square, Istanbul. The events that...

This article argues that the devastating mass demonstrations triggered by a humble environmentalist protest in the Gezi Park of İstanbul cannot be...