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Published in: Home: OpinionSunak hides behind rose-tinted glasses as COVID and climate threats riseBudget ignores need for emission cuts, while government’s consistent incompetence puts Britons at greater risk from...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEducating the host: It's not just refugees who need ‘integration’ programmesTeaching local hosts the experience of war and forced displacement would help to publicly challenge hate speech and...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionAre the fortunes of Turkey’s AKP on the wane?Turkey’s AKP represents one side of a deeply divided nation, but there are signs of shifts in the country’s...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSoap operas will not save Turkey’s reputation in LebanonAs Lebanon struggles to create a new government following the port explosion and amid protests, two nations vie for...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureAfghans fleeing the Taliban face death, deportation and push-backs in TurkeyWith financial support from the EU, Turkey has toughened up its migration policies – putting hundreds of thousands at risk
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghans left to pick up the pieces of the West’s failed warAs the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of US and NATO allies’ retreat, has anyone considered the impact on...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisTurkey’s invasion of northern Iraq could lead to Kurdish civil warAttendees of a recent peace delegation responding to Turkey’s incursions into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNo matter how far HMS Queen Elizabeth sails, it won’t make Britain great againNaval posturing in the Indo-Pacific is the image of futility as the world’s most deadly security threats rage on
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Published in: 50.50: NewsFeminist groups demand action to ‘stop anti-rights infiltration’ at the UNGlobal organisations call on UN agencies to ‘stop access to decision-making’ for opponents of women’s and LGBT...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureTurkish spies are abducting Erdogan’s political opponents abroadEmboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTurkey is reportedly depriving hundreds of thousands of people of waterThe nation has been accused of breaking its agreement to ensure a flow of 500 cubic metres per second of the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWhy Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention is a global problemFar-Right populists might claim to be protecting local traditions, but the backlash against women’s rights demands...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCracks in the Middle East’s stability grow wider as US influence wanesWith the region experiencing social unrest, greater influence of Russia and China, and Israel’s increasing...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSelahattin Demirtaş: the trial of the man who wanted to be Turkey’s presidentAfter more than four years of being held in a pre-trial detention that the ECHR ruled ‘unlawful’, Demirtaş is due to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionBanning the pro-Kurdish HDP in Turkey is a move towards fascismThe government’s attempt to ban Turkey’s third-largest political party is the latest attack against voices of change...
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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
