11/07/2012 | Medio Ambiente
Rio+20 Was a Bust
World leaders from government, the business world, NGOs and academia gathered at the UN's Rio+20 summit. Yet despite all the good intentions and good ideas arising from the meeting, we unlikely to solve the world's economic, social, and environmental problems, argues Yilmaz Arguden, Turkey's national representative to the UN Global Compact.
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28/03/2011 | Frente Externo
Libyan Crisis a Missed Opportunity for Turkey
The uprising in Libya and the subsequent foreign military intervention there are providing a significant test for Turkey's stated desire to create a foreign policy that combines realism with idealism, while also highlighting the difficulty Ankara is facing in balancing its aspirations to become a more independent regional leader in the Middle East with its efforts to maintain its traditional alliances.
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07/06/2010 | Frente Externo
In Turkey, Gaza Flotilla Crisis Has Strong Domestic Component
One week later, the repercussions of the tragically botched Israeli commando raid on the Gaza aid flotilla spearheaded by a Turkish NGO continue to reverberate worldwide.
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07/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Islamic NGO Setting Tone in Turkish-Israeli Row over Gaza Flotilla Raid
At the heart of the diplomatic crisis between Israel and Turkey, arising out of the tragic May 31 commando raid on an aid flotilla steaming towards Gaza, lies the rise of the previously obscure IHH, the Turkish Islamic non-governmental organization that spearheaded the convoy.
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17/02/2010 | Frente Externo
Turkey's Neo-Ottoman Problem
The term "zero problems with neighbors" has become closely associated with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's ambitious and proactive new foreign policy. The formula is used to describe an approach that has seen Ankara re-engage politically, economically and culturally with its surrounding region.
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21/12/2009 | Frente Externo
Turkey's 'Kurdish Opening' Threatened by Party's Closure
The recent closing by Turkey's highest court of the Democratic Society Party (DTP), the only pro-Kurdish party in the Turkish parliament, is being seen as a significant setback for the government's newly launched "democratization initiative," a reform program aimed at solving Ankara's decades-old Kurdish problem.
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30/11/1999 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Gap Separating Intelligence From Statesmanship
In a fascinating interview, which aired on Russia Today TV on July 20, 2016, Yuri Kotov, a veteran senior KGB official, bitterly recounted historical episodes from his service that illustrated how USSR leaders disregarded the intelligence provided to them. One of the most instructive episodes concerned Gorbachev's perestroika and "new thinking" towards the West. The interview went as follows:
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