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| The Significance of Taiwan's Presidential Elections |
| Yazar: Selçuk Çolakoğlu |
| Taiwan, a state whose official name is the Republic of China and which is recognized only by 23 countries in the world, held its presidential elections on 14 January 2012. This election was an important turning point on the issue of whether Taiwan will carry on as an independent state or whether it will integrate with China along similar lines to Hong Kong. The candidate of the Kuomintang (the Nationalist Party), Ma Ying-jeou, re-elected for his second term with 51.6% of the votes... |
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| Racist Motives behind French Armenian Bill: Is Erdogan Right? |
| Yazar: Fatma Yılmaz-Elmas |
| Racism, in modern age, is no longer a phenomenon related to the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘race relations’ through which "the others” are on target as biologically inferior. Anyway, already in 1950s and 1960s, following a series of researches and sessions, UNESCO refuted the scientific basis of racism, namely biological racism, indicating that there is no such difference between human races. However, this fact does not, of course, mean that there is no racism and racist behaviors or feelings all over the world... |
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| Being Part of the Middle East as History is Rewritten |
| Yazar: O. Bahadır Dinçer |
| During the last years, there have been a great many developments in the Arab world which proved that the days of the existing authoritarian leaders were numbered. Definite proof that things were changing were provided by a series of events: the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003; the elections in Iraq in 2005; demonstrations the same year against Syria in Lebanon; the unprecedented success of the Muslim Brotherhood in winning 88 parliamentary seats in Egypt... |
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| Interpretation of the Developing Iranian Stance on Syria |
| Yazar: Ali Hussein Bakeer |
| With the development of the Syrian crisis, there has recently been an increase in discussion about the Iranian regime and the shift in rhetoric towards Damascus by some of its members. This has been with respect to recognizing the existence of a real revolution, the urging of Assad to see the importance of understanding popular demands and the need to open a dialogue between the regime and the opposition. This is all evidence of the existence of a real shift in Iranian policy... |
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| Snow White and the Other Monsters |
| Yazar: Gözde Damla Çitler |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a beloved and well-known fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers featuring a famous line: "Mirror, mirror on the wall.” This innocent fairy tale character, horribly and ironically, describes a fatal substance in the organized crime environment. It is the street name of cocaine which also turns the famous line above into a murder weapon: the mirror people use for cutting it on. This is how a fairy tale turns into a nightmare when narcotics appear as the antagonist... |
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| Debating US’s Strategic Return to Asia: British and American Schools |
| Yazar: Serafettin Yilmaz |
| The U.S. plans to pull its major combat forces out of the Middle East (troop withdrawal from Iraq already took place in December, 2011 and the U.S. government plans to withdraw active combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 even though conflicting signals are coming from the Pentagon) and initiate a strategic return to Asia... |
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| Iran’s Dangerous Game in Iraq |
| Yazar: Ali Hussein Bakeer |
| In his December speech welcoming the troops home from Iraq, US President Barack Obama said, "We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.” In reality, none of this is true on the ground. Iraq today is a very fragile country. Its sovereignty is questionable, it cannot depend on itself and, according to Iraq’s military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Abu Bakr Zebari, it will not be able to protect its borders or airspace before 2020... |
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| France-Turkey: What Went Wrong? |
| Yazar: Maxime Gauin |
| The Orwellian bill punishing the "denial” of the unsubstantiated "Armenian genocide” claims will be discussed at the end of January in the French Senate. France is alone in such a case: The few other attempts, in Slovakia for example, failed and were not even discussed in the parliament. France has the longest tradition of alliance with Turkey. It was the first major power to understand what Armenian nationalism really is... |
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| Historical Decision of the Bulgarian Parliament: Assimilation Process Condemned |
| Yazar: Muzaffer Kutlay |
| The National Assembly of Bulgaria affixed to a historical decision in the first session of 2012. The National Assembly adopted a declaration that condemns the assimilation process that was applied as an official state policy towards the Bulgarian Turks by Todor Jivkov, the totalitarian leader of the Communist regime and the forced emigration of 1989. Consequently, for the first time, Bulgaria come up to Turkey’s agenda as a neighbour that is facing its past and acting with the virtue of apologizing instead of racist and nationalist scolds... |
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| Transition to Multi-Party System in Kazakhstan? |
| Yazar: Gülay Mutlu |
| Upon the termination of the Kazakh parliament by Nursultan Nazarbayev on November 16, 2011, elections have been decided to be held seven months earlier, on January 15, 2012. 98 seats of the 107-member parliament will be directly determined by the vote of the electorate. The remaining nine deputies will take their place in parliament after the submission of candidates determined by the People’s Assembly of Kazakhstan to the President on January 16... |
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| Resisting Nicolas Sarkozy |
| Yazar: Maxime Gauin |
| The government did not use the urgency procedure; but now, it is asking for the discussion of the Boyer bill at the end of January. Once again, this is an irrational position of an irrational president. Nobody should be surprised. At the end of 2011, Nicolas Sarkozy argued that from 2001 to 2011, despite the "recognition” of the "genocide” claims, Franco-Turkish trade increased 30%. Mr. Sarkozy seems unaware that at the same time, the Turkish gross domestic product doubled and its imports and exports multiplied by four... |
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| From the Euro Crisis to Disputes on the Future of Europe |
| Yazar: Fatma Yılmaz-ELmas |
| Europe,the etymology of which is based on Greek mythology (Europa), is producing disputes that could lead to Greece beinganathematized in the euro zone and accused of indolence. Greece,which currently invoiced €220 billion to theEuropean commonwealth as compensation for "its own mistakes,” is the cultural inheritor of ancient Greecebut seems to have lost its mystical tune for Europeans. However, the effects of the euro crisis arenot limited tothe decline of the European-"invented” Greek myth... |
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| Did the Iraq War Take Place? |
| Yazar: Dilek Karal |
| The last American combat troops withdraw from Iraq three weeks ago on December 17, 2011 after eight years of war. Even for the supporters of the war,the reasons as to why the U.S. went into Iraq became vague over the years. The long years of war with a missing victor reminds of Jean Baudrillard’s long debated article titled "The Gulf War Will Not Take Place” which was published just before the attack by American and British forces on Baghdad in the 1991 Gulf War... |
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| One Year of Countries Toppling Their Leaders |
| Yazar: Gamze Coşkun |
| Around this time last year, many Arab countries showed signs of a new wave of change in the region. The events which started in Tunisia spread their effect to many countries of the region such as Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and Syria. In nearly one year, the countries which achieved their primary goal of toppling their leaders have been Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. For Yemen, on the other hand, it is not yet possible to say that Ali Abdullah Saleh has totally abdicated... |
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| What Does the Uludere Incident Pledge for a Democratic Future? |
| Yazar: Süleyman Özeren |
| On the Iraqi side of the Turkish-Iraqi border, 35 people were killed as a result of a military air strike which was thought to be targeting PKK terrorists. Those who were killed were not actually terrorists, but Kurdish people who were involving in smuggling along the Iraqi border. The incident caused deep sorrow in Turkey regardless of social, economic, political or cultural backgrounds. Politicians, community leaders and members of the mass media also expressed pain and sorrow... |
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