Köşe Yazıları | Op-eds

What do the Turks want?

22 Ocak 2015

Bu yazı 22.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The choices of citizens of a country on various issues are important parts of the inputs that governments receive during their decision-making process, so governments try to gauge the perceptions of the public more or less accurately. In democratic societies, public opinion…

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The challenge of non-state extremism

15 Ocak 2015

Bu yazı 15.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The massacre at the office of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in France on Jan. 7, 2015 topped headlines all over the world throughout last week, and world leaders marched across Paris to pay tribute to the victims and protest senseless violence against…

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Russian matryoshka politics

08 Ocak 2015

Bu yazı 08.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a revised version of his country’s military doctrine on Dec. 26, 2014 to replace the document issued by his predecessor Dmitri Medvedev in February 2010. Although some might argue that it was just another official document release…

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The end of an unfinished war

01 Ocak 2015

Bu yazı 01.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The war in Afghanistan came to a formal end on Dec. 28, 2014, with a flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul. The symbolic act, which was held under heavy security measures due to threats of an attack, marked the conclusion of the U.S.-led Operation…

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Ten years on

25 Aralık 2014

Bu yazı 25.12.2014 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Dec. 16, 2014 was an important anniversary in Turkey’s long and arduous road to the EU. Ten years ago on that day, the EU Council agreed that Turkey sufficiently fulfilled the Copenhagen political criteria and was ready to start accession negotiations with…

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