Last summer’s peaceful mass demonstrations in Israel protested economic hardships resulting from excessive government interference in the economy… Continue reading
Traditionally, the Islamic states have had to reach out to Western capital markets to obtain funding for major projects. Islam’s prohibition on the collection of interest made it difficult to… Continue reading
As Syria sinks deeper and deeper into the throes of civil war, the decade-long honeymoon between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party and Bashar al-Assad’s regime has all but ended… Continue reading
The decision of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to visit Turkey along with Ireland and the United States during his ten-day world tour before becoming president in about a year underscores the importance Turkey holds for China’s leaders… Continue reading
As the high hopes for a brave new Middle East fade rapidly, Western policymakers must recognize that promoting market economics and its inevitable cultural changes are far more critical to the region’s well-being than encouraging free elections or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict… Continue reading
Here’s what you need to know about the current U.S. debate on energy… Continue reading
According to widespread rumor, many Iranians in Baku are involved full- or part-time in Iranian regime-related profit making, sanctions-busting, money laundering, and similar activities… Continue reading
Among the second wave of Arab Spring uprisings that followed Tunisia, Syria was the most spectacular “out of the blue” that suddenly arose in the face of the media and analytic community… Continue reading
Until now, Turkey’s presence in Iraq has generally been encouraged by all major Iraqi groups… Continue reading
With its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-bombers of more advanced models that the Israeli Air Force… Continue reading
India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar… Continue reading
The IRGC’s seizure of the Oil Ministry could have far reaching economic, political, and strategic implications… Continue reading
US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive when the White House called off the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have ever staged… Continue reading
Prof. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was killed early Wednesday… Continue reading
For the first time in forty years, Israel is not the American president’s favorite Middle Eastern ally… Continue reading
Turkey’s high-flying economy will crash-land in 2012… Continue reading
The inability of the Baath regime in Damascus to bring the situation in the country under control has compelled Turkey to… Continue reading
Rising global food prices are hitting Egypt’s poor hard and are the major contributor to… Continue reading
What is the definition of Middle East policy insanity?… Continue reading
After public warnings that it faces bankruptcy within a few months… Continue reading
Two of Syria’s most important minorities, the Alawites and the Druzes, fear that… Continue reading
Chinese analysts have been pleasantly surprised by the stupendous growth in their cultural, economic, and political ties with Turkey… Continue reading
Tensions are not only mounting between Israel and Turkey since the release of the UN Palmer report… Continue reading
The Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s main opposition party, will have to adopt a whole new discourse and appropriate a new political… Continue reading
The turmoil in Syria threatens to deprive Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party of one of its most significant foreign policy achievements… Continue reading
With the Turkish lira in free-fall, Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks less like a prospective Ottoman caliph than a garden-variety Third World strongman… Continue reading
Are sanctions capable of derailing Tehran’s nuclear drive? Some skeptics reject such measures altogether… Continue reading
This week the conservative daily Khorasan published a letter sent by an Iranian housewife to President Ahmadinejad… Continue reading
Edward Said is treated like a guru and hero; Fouad Ajami isn’t… Continue reading
With demonstrators back on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Western media outlets once again are focused on the demands of urban protesters… Continue reading
At 12 June’s general election, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development party (AKP) pulled off a rare political hat trick… Continue reading
Mubarak is gone, but the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt will not lead to an ‘Arab Summer’… Continue reading
Pay close attention to this article by the analytical artist who calls himself “Spengler.” He has been arguing… Continue reading
Less than a month from now, Turkish citizens will go to the polls to cast their votes in the Republic’s seventeenth general election… Continue reading
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