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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe EU looks on as the HDP – and democracy itself – falls victim to ErdoğanDespite Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish opposition party being subject to years of harassment, the international community...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHappy is the one who says ‘I am a Turk’: the story of an oathIn Turkey, a row over the traditional classroom pledge of allegiance reveals the extent to which nationalism has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Turkey, two Facebook posts are enough to land you in jailIn a letter seen by openDemocracy Turkish Canadian PhD student Cihan Erdal says that he is a 'political hostage' -...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHow is Turkey answering its ‘Kurdish question’?Ankara treats all Kurdish opposition whether peaceful or militant as terrorism. And it is taking its war into...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionThe sultan and his sycophants: Erdoğan is leading Turkey towards a bleak futureThe appointment of a controversial new rector to Boğaziçi University is typical of the president’s poor leadership
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhat exactly is Erdoganism?The spectacle of Erdoganism is much closer to a tribal state than to a state governed by the rule of law.
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Published in: HomeInsights from Hungary to beat TrumpismThree pitfalls from a Hungarian perspective that could hinder beating Trumpism after Trump vacates the White House.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Under Biden, the US will push for a ‘EU-goslavia’Biden must work within the parameters of this new reality – not the one that existed in the 1990s when Biden formed...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionA period of hope for Latin America begins with Biden & HarrisFor the U.S., the Latin American agenda is not a priority. Still, Biden’s arrival at the White House signifies a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Syria’s Afrin became hell for KurdsTurkish backed militias have turned life in Afrin into one of constant fear of torture, kidnapping, and death.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Marathon Man and 'our European Way of Life'The migration debate ignores the political question of why hundreds or thousands of underage and adult people are...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Varosha and political ineptitudeIt seems that Varosha has not only been abandoned by the United Nations and by the European Union but also by the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The East Mediterranean crisis could ignite a Greek-Turkish proxy warA moratorium on gas and oil exploitation is needed.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionEqual eye distance: time to show more solidarity with Assyrians and other ChristiansThe thoughts of a Kurdish artist in exile on solidarity and art.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionNagorno Karabakh and Turkey’s imperial ambitionsThe ongoing war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is part of Turkey’s neo-imperial ambitions in the region and it must...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU’s pact against migration, Part OneThe EU Commission’s proposal for a ‘New Pact for Migration and Asylum’ offers no prospect of ending the enduring...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat are Syrian mercenaries doing in Azerbaijan?How can we understand the presence of Turkish backed Syrian mercenaries in Azerbaijan?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe philosophy of Orbán’s misguided Christian friendsEminent conservative Christian intellectuals in the west look to new illiberal regimes for succour. Their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The defeat of the 'real' neo-OttomanistsIt was difficult to miss the irony of commentaries on the “triumph of neo-Ottomanism” on 24 July, when Erdoğan was...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Of music, mosques and angelsIf President Erdoğan wishes to help restore the true spirit of Ayasofiya, he should free Osman Kavala now.
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