Here are two presidential addresses to consider from November 2014: President Obama talked about net neutrality, while President Erdoğan talked about...

Have you seen the latest Pew Attitudes Survey on Turkey? Only 19 % of Turks have a favorable opinion of the United States. The Americans I talk to...

These days, I am increasingly hearing that Turkey is becoming less democratic and more authoritarian. People bemoan the decline of the rule-of-law,...

I was at a meeting in Beijing this week. The city had plenty of blue sky and light traffic. I was told that authorities arranged this to fix their...

The Jihadist International is a growing phenomenon. Like the Communist International of early 20th Century, this movement feeds on domestic...

Turkey is ambivalent on the siege of Kobane. The city lies in the Ottoman Governorate of Syria and was built in 1912 around a train station along the...

The World has changed. In the past, the most powerful 7 countries were enough  to govern the rest of the world. However , now we need more , and...

I have had a song by Sting stuck in my head for the past two days. Remember the one that goes, “nothing comes from violence and nothing ever...

People talking about the prospects of the Turkish economy these days keep bringing up the country’s skills deficiency. “The average years of...

I was just looking at the results of Metropoll’s survey on the ISIL threat. The result is clear: 4 out of 5 people in Turkey considers ISIL a threat....