It has been 70 years since the creation of Israel and 101 years since the Balfour Declaration, calling for a national home for Jews in the former Ottoman lands. On whatever occasion the beginning of the longest running land dispute in the Middle East is dated, the Arab-Israeli conflict has undoubtedly dominated modern politics…

Scarcely a day goes by that the Middle East does not make the headlines with yet another catastrophic development. It has been in turmoil one way or another since the end of the Cold War, if not before. The latest move by the U.S. to transfer its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was preceded…

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…

Why does Turkey buy S-400 from Russia? Why was the war in Georgia predictable? Professor Mustafa Aydin from Istanbul about the game of strength in the region? Since 2007, many experts have predicted the course of events in Georgia - We saw Russia pushing Georgia to the wall, waiting for…