We can only hope that Turkey stays the Davutoglu course, pursuing every opening that enables positive mutual relations among countries and using its diplomatic stature to encourage peaceful conflict resolution…
A politics of reconciliation can only have any hope of succeeding if there is a large display of goodwill and a sincere search by Turkish and Armenian leaders for positive…
“Woodrow Wilson, the 28th American president, is looking down in horror at what the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC) is doing in his name.” I wrote that last…
By a happy quirk of personal destiny I happened to be in Istanbul recently when the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu gave a talk at the opening dinner session of…
The recent earthquake in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish province of Van not only caused loss of life and damage, it also exposed the country’s political and ethnic fault lines. In the…
The turbulent events that commenced less than a year ago and which continue to take place in North Africa and the Middle East are caused by complicated, and often contradictory,…