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Years of hope:   In the aftermath of September 11, Taliban’s refusal to act against Al-Qaeda and its leader, led to the military campaign of the United States and its allies, followed by the end of Taliban rule.   Later [...]

Peoples or states before ever going into a deal with big powers need to think twice and keep in mind that it will most likely be the interests of those powers that will in the long run be taken into [...]

The current state of Turkish-American relations reminds me of William Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be, that is the question” tirade expressed by Hamlet in the third act of the play. I think this tirade perfectly applies to the difficulty [...]

More Conflict, Less Peace   There is daily evidence that we are living in age of impunity. The latest attacks by Israel demonstrated that no matter what the world says, no matter how loud the outcries, no one can stop [...]

PLAGUE OF MEDIOCRITY    The worst form of mediocrity has widely infected the global society just like the pandemic caused by COVID 19 and its mutants. Whether this is a side product of ‘informational revolution’ is yet to be thoroughly analysed. It is still at its creeping stage [...]

Mr. President,   I am the widow of Bahadır Demir, who served as the Deputy Consul General for the Republic of Turkey in Los Angeles. He was murdered by an Armenian American, Gourgen Yanikian, in Santa Barbara on January 27, [...]

President Biden will issue his first Armenian Remembrance Day statement this Saturday — his 95th in office and his 95th abstaining from calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Biden’s off-the-cuff character stands in contrast to previous administrations, presenting an unprecedented [...]

First Armenian act of murder against Turkish diplomats was committed at Santa Barbara, California, in 1973; Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Consul Bahadır Demir were martyred with cold blood. The glorification by the Armenians of the assassin Gourgen Yanikian went [...]

Human rights issues have always been a difficult subject for Turkish diplomats. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the field of human rights is not considered as an area of expertise like NATO/arms control questions or matters pertaining to Cyprus/Greece. [...]