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Comment: Israel Underestimated Hezbollah’s Striking Power

A Guest Commentary by Nabi Yücel How arrogant was the almost joyful proclamation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "We have lured Hezbollah into a...

WSJ: „An Urgent Need to Contain Turkey“

Guest Commentary: Özgür Çelik The article "An Urgent Need to Contain Turkey," written by Bradley Martin and published in the Wall Street Journal on March...

Iran: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announces “decentralized mosaic defense system”

Polat Karaburan Recent statements by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi following the death of Imam Khamenei have brought into focus...

The Next Turkish President: Hakan Fidan

By Polat Karaburan For more than five decades, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has shaped the political life of Turkey. What began...

Report on National Solidarity – The Power of Terms and the Limits of Official Language

By Özgür Çelik The recent report issued by the Turkish Commission for National Solidarity, Brotherhood, and Democracy appears, at first...

„Turkey and its people owe us a great deal“.

An Op-Ed by M. Teyfik Oezcan In the last few days, we are again registering verbal poison arrows from Turkey, which...

Thomas: What exactly does „anti-Semitism“ mean

An Op-Ed by Michael Thomas If one follows the logic of pure reason, then the term "anti-Semitism" defines an inner...