The simmering dissent and dissatisfaction unleashed at Gezi Park may not be enough to topple AKP's majority, but it threatens their political agenda as well as Turkey's democratic consolidation.
Real or imagined, there is a widespread grievance in Britain's ethnic majority that they no longer come first. Does belonging justify increased entitlement, or is this privilege rightly being swept away?
Arab Awakening's columnists offer their weekly perspective on what is happening on the ground in the Middle East. Leading the week: A toast to the Brotherhood
In this interview conducted in Diyarbakir, the unofficial Kurdish capital in Turkey, Aydin Yildiz tells the story of his imprisonment without trial and his time as a journalist reporting from inside his prison cell.
Our columnist returns to Egypt from nine months in London. But it is not he who has changed.
The Gezi Park occupation has been presented as little more than an environmental dispute over an urban green space. But it goes to the heart of the identity of modern Turkey and the character of the Turkish republic.
The far right in Greece has become completely independent from the right, and is turning into a loose canon against New Democracy rather than SYRIZA or the other parties of the centre-left.
Neither Britain nor its constituent countries show any sign of wanting to abandon the nation for "global citizenship". The task now is to recognise and accept the specialness rather than superiority that people associate with their home nation, and forge a broad yet cohesive national story.
Corrupt political systems create conditions for industrial tragedies, not the presence of global brands.
Speaking at the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference, Valerie Hudson argues that best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is how well its women are treated. Little analysed in international relations theory, state security and women’s security are inextricably linked.
