An animal that feels threatened can be especially dangerous, and the same is true of an authoritarian leader who fears...

Politics and hypocrisy have always gone together. This has not changed since Democritus observed, in ancient Greece, that "many, while...

Kurdish lands have become a battleground for imperialist competition, and every day brings accounts of new geopolitical machinations. Powerful leaders...

These are testing times for Turkey’s main opposition party. As Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s inheritor, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) is...

Another deadline has come and gone, and the Yazidis’ autonomous forces are still standing proud in Șengal (Sinjar) in Iraqi...

If the European Union can describe Turkey as showing "positive tendencies", what would a country have to do to merit...

Wednesday’s announcement that Turkey’s public prosecutor had filed a case for the total banning of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...

It was grand theatre, a rare chance to celebrate, and – of course – an opportunity for genuine devotion; but...

"War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and the silencing and imprisonment of political opponents is human rights: or so it...

Thousands of members arrested, leaders behind bars, elected representatives deposed – this would be enough to stop many political parties...