Bu yazı 19.03.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The fighting in Syria, which started with an uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed into a deadly civil war, has entered its fifth year. As of January 2015, it has claimed over 220,000 lives, displaced 7.6 million people inside Syria,…
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Köşe Yazıları | Op-eds
Europe’s dream army
12 Mart 2015
Bu yazı 12.03.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. Amid the debates over whether the Feb. 12, 2015, cease-fire agreement between Ukraine and Russian-supported rebels in the eastern part of the country will hold, and whether the rebels’ next target would be to connect with Russian-occupied Crimea, NATO members including the U.S.,…
devamıBetween ‘the raiders of the lost ark’ and ‘tomb raider’
26 Şubat 2015
Turkey woke up to the week with a surreal story: The Turkish Armed Forces with 39 tanks, 44 armored and 17 other vehicles, 542 soldiers, 19 F16s, two AWACs and two UAVs moved 40 km into Syrian territory, recovered the remains of Süleyman Shah, the supposed grandfather of Osman I,…
devamıUnited western front on Ukraine
12 Şubat 2015
Bu yazı 12.02.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The fighting between government forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine has flared up again despite attempts to ease the tension through a cease-fire agreement, signed in Minsk on Sept. 5, 2014. After a December lull, the separatists renewed their attacks with not-so-hidden…
devamıWinds of change in Europe
29 Ocak 2015
Bu yazı 29.01.2015 tarihinde Hurriyet Daily News Gazetesi'nde yayımlanmıştır. The results of the parliamentary elections in Greece on Jan. 25 were not a surprise. As predicted, an umbrella coalition of the far-left, the Syriza Party, came at the top with 36 percent of the vote, obtaining 149 seats in parliament, two…
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