Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS ANKARA, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) – Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national integrity’ grounds. Simultaneously, thousands of angry netizens held street demonstrations in several major [...]
OP-ED: Iran’s Greatest Spiritual Leader
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Melody Moezzi* ATLANTA, Georgia, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – Iran’s officially recognised "spiritual leader" today may be Ayatollah Khamenei, but for hundreds of years before the current establishment of mullahs and ayatollahs, Iranians of all creeds have looked to another spiritual leader: Jalal ad- Din Rumi. While [...]
Turkey Has Peace Plan As Libya Contact Group Meets in Qatar
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Turkey Has Peace Plan As Libya Contact Group Meets in Qatar Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Wikimedia Commons By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalyis ISTANBUL (IDN) – In run-up to the landmark first meeting of the Contact Group on Libya on April 13 in Doha, [...]
TURKEY: Old Colonial Rivalries Revive over Libya
March 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas ANKARA, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) – Turkey’s volte-face Thursday evening to make a sizeable military contribution to NATO’s intervention in the Libyan crisis, after two weeks of fierce opposition to the Alliance’s mingling with Arab affairs, has further blurred Ankara’s position in the [...]
CHINA COURTS TURKEY
October 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN China, whose relations with Turkey went through a period of tension last year following the Turkish condemnation of the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the Chinese on the Uighurs in Chinese-controlled Xinjiang in July , has undertaken measures to repair the relations and seek Turkey’s support for the pacification of [...]
BALKANS: The Turks Return
August 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Aug 11, 2010 (IPS) – It’s not often that the leading Belgrade daily Politika devotes two of its four foreign pages to the praise of one nation, but it did so for the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month. [...]
IRAQ: ‘We’re Not Living, Just Not Dying’
August 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jake Hess SULEYMANIYA, Iraq, Aug 4, 2010 (IPS) – Compared to most internally displaced Kurds in northern Iraq, Shamal Qadir is almost lucky. Since the Turkish army devastated his village, Kuzine, in a bombing raid Jul. 1, he’s been living in a schoolhouse, where room temperatures are [...]
Turks Let Kurdish Forests Burn
July 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jake Hess SIRNAK, Turkey, Jul 13, 2010 (IPS) – The Turkish General Directorate of Forestry claims to devote the bulk of its resources to combating forest fires, but it is passively observing the Turkish army ignite forested areas in the country’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern region. Residents of [...]
Brazil, Turkey Defy U.S. on Nuke Vote Against Iran
June 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jun 9, 2010 (IPS) – After several months of closed-door negotiations and shuttle diplomacy, the United States succeeded Wednesday in getting a new Security Council resolution – the fourth in a series – imposing a fresh set of sanctions penalising Iran for its [...]
U.S.: Neo-Conservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 9, 2010 (IPS) – As the right-wing leadership of the organised U.S. Jewish community defends Israel against international condemnation for its deadly seizure of a flotilla bearing humanitarian supplies for Gaza, a familiar clutch of neo-conservative hawks is going on the offensive against [...]