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A NEW CHAPTER IN TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY
Turkish and international analysts express their views on the recent activism in Turkish foreign policy in last few days. With the Rome Consensus on June 27, 2016, Turkey and Israel signed a protocol to
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OMAN: A PEACEFUL OASIS IN A FLAMING REGION
In a fractious, unstable region rife with conflicts, one country appears to be unscathed. It is telling that Oman emerged not only intact from the ramifications of the Arab Spring, but also shied away
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THE GLOBAL BAKU FORUM IV: WHAT TO LEARN?
This week in Azerbaijan was held The Global Baku Forum IV, organized by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center and supported by the Azerbaijani State Committee on Work with Diaspora, with the partnership of Club
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DIVISIONS IN ISLAM AND CURRENT SECTARIAN TENSIONS
Following the execution of Shiite Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia, sectarian conflicts and tensions in Islam are now more widely spoken. Recent Saudi Arabia-Islamic Republic of Iran rivalry and the power struggles between
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HENRY KISSINGER: THE NEW LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY
Former US Secretary of State, Mr. Henry Kissinger, in an interview with our newspaper told about the dangerous new threats of the solution to the conflict in the Middle East and its agreement with
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THE MIDDLE EAST: RISING AND FALLING STARS
In 2011, Turkey was seen as an unstoppable regional power and a rising star led by its Justice and Development Party (AKP). But the arrival of the Arab Spring heralded a deep change in
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TIME TO DECIDE!!!
On August 27th, headlines splashed global newspapers that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and nine other top officials resigned from the ruling Executive Committee (ExCo) of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Talks about an emergency
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HAMAS DIPLOMATIC ACTIVISM: MODIFIED STRATEGIES AND NEW ALLIANCES
Many observers saw in Tony Blair’s meeting with head of Hamas’ political bureau Khaled Meshal a breakthrough that may take Hamas out of the bottleneck and may lead to a long-term truce between the
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SAUDI ARABIA AND THE US: FROM ALLIES TO RIVALS?
Saudi Arabia and the United States are gradually transforming from allies to rivals. Different approach to the Syria issue only supplemented the wide array of other contradictions that have emerged in the recent years.
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THE ARAB SPRING AND THE RISE OF NON-STATE ACTORS
It the past four years, Arabs have been living in endless Sisyphean ordeal, an unexpected nightmare after rising for what they called “the Arab Spring”. A very similar scenario was cloned in most of
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