The Gulf is a sub-region consisting of Saudi Arabia and five small states, namely Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. This...

Today, the world system is in a transition and experiencing a deep international crisis. The U.S. has begun to oppose the basic international...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it took a while for Russia to recover from an existential crisis. As one of the poles of the global system...

The American Presidential election in 2016 is a significant breakpoint in American history for both the uniqueness of the election campaigns and...

Turkey has been experiencing a transformation process since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Then President of Turkey,...

Turkey is located between some of the most penetrated and volatile regions in the world, namely the Middle East, the Balkans, Caucasia and the...

Turkey has been holding elections since the end of the 19th century; and the country has been enjoying democratic elections since 1950. With a...

The date of July 15, 2016 is a watershed in the history of democracy as well as in the history of Turkey. On the night of July 15, the world...

The Syrian Crisis, the bloodiest front of the Arab uprisings and one of the main determinants of policies of regional and global powers, has been...

Germany, who challenged the British and its allies twice in the first half of the 20th century, began to reemerge as a global political power and...

2015 was the year of elections in Turkey with two parliamentary elections and months-long election campaigns that dominated the political agenda of...

In a radio broadcast in 1939 Winston Churchill defined Russia in a famous quip as ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.’ The chain of...

Energy security, at the heart of energy policy, has become central to the dynamics of international relations. Political turmoil has overwhelmed...

Religion, religious groups and teo-politics are always most vital topics of the Western politics. The relationship between politics and religion is...

International and mobility migration is of growing magnitude, of growing economic importance and of growing international concern. It cuts across...

The international community faces a series of serious challenges, which need to be urgently addressed otherwise the ongoing conflicts will become...

Fair and transparent elections provide an opportunity for citizens to continue or discontinue with the incumbent administrations and political...

The end of the Cold War ushered in a new era, leading to the transformation of the international system and shifting the power balances among...

As Turkey prepares for local, presidential and general elections in the next two years, domestic and foreign policy issues are becoming central...

Again, momentous events are taking place in Turkey and its neighborhood. A civil unrest hit Turkey for weeks in May and June over a government...

On march 21, almost one million Kurds gathered in Diyarbakir to celebrate the Kurdish New Year, Newroz and listened to the message of Abdullah...

Two years ago the Arab Middle East was shaken by popular uprisings. The events have resulted either in regime change or reforms in some countries,...

The Syrian crisis is deepening. Pro-Assad forces have so far killed more than 30,000 Syrians; hundreds of thousands have fled to neighboring...

Another hot summer in the Middle East… Tens of thousands of Syrians continue to flee the violence inflicted upon them by Bashar Assad’s regime by...