Recent Posts

Büyük kumar: On büyükelçi

“Kendi özel iradelerini değil, temsil ettikleri ülkelerin iradesini yansıtıyor. O ülke hükümetleri onaylıyor, hatta belki de, öneriyor. Dolayısıyla, o büyükelçileri istenmeyen adam ilan etmek, aynı zamanda o ülkelerle bağı koparmak anlamını taşıyor”. Erdoğan, siyasal hayatının en büyük kumarını oynuyor. Aynı kentte, aynı gün, üç ayrı yerde üç konuşma. Önce Millet …

Read More »

Ex-Saudi official claims damaging intel against crown prince

A former senior Saudi security official who helped oversee joint counter-terrorism efforts with the United States claimed in an interview with “60 Minutes” that the kingdom’s crown prince once spoke of killing a sitting Saudi monarch before his own father was crowned king. Saad al-Jabri did not provide evidence to …

Read More »

An independent Kurdistan is the best bet to contain ISIS

While concerns of a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan are front and center, we need to remember that there are thousands of ISIS fighters waging a low-level insurgency in Iraq and Syria. Containing that threat is critical, and doing so over the long term requires an international relations moonshot: creating an …

Read More »