Köşe Yazıları | Op-eds

The resignation of the newly appointed Armenian Prime Minister  Sargsyan'>Serzh Sargsyan on April 23 after 11 days of mass demonstrations by the public have briefly brought back the sparkle of colored revolutions of the early 2000s to the Caucasus.  The situation could not be more different. The Armenians took to the streets on April 13 to “reject Serzh”…

In the conventional parlance of international politics, Turkey and Greece have been in a rapprochement process since 1999 and their foreign ministries have also been engaged in high-level proximity talks. Although no tangible progress toward a solution has been achieved in any of their disputes over the Aegean Sea –related to…

The Syrian civil war has entered its eight year with no sign of ending soon. On the contrary, the further entanglement of regional and international actors in the conflict hints at a likely continuation of violence. The humanitarian aspect of the civil war has already become the biggest ever crisis…

In the highly competitive and globalized atmosphere of international politics, states routinely use human intelligence, as well as technology, to gather information about each other. Although data collection methods and techniques have diversified with the advance of technology, traditional methods of sending spies abroad or recruiting high placed foreign nationals…

Since the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has been astonishing global watchers with his unpredictable, harsh, and sometimes reckless style in policy implementation. Most recently, he fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, announcing on Twitter that he would be replaced by Mike Pompeo, director of the CIA. Despite all…