Breaking the stalemate in the U.S.-Iran standoff no longer hinges on the belligerents’ wartime tactics and calculations. For two reasons. One is obvious. Owing to a multitude of asymmetries -primarily geography, which heavily favoured the defender, affordable application of new […]

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Türkiye has regarded integration with the Turkic world as one of the principal objectives of its foreign policy. Although this process has experienced periodic interruptions, it acquired an institutional framework with […]

Mustafa Ergün Olgun, Betrayal — The Other Side of the Cyprus Case: An Account of the Cyprus Issue  and the UN Facilitated Settlement Process from 1960 to 2025 Pelgrave Macmillan, 649 pages, 2025 As someone involved in the UN-led settlement […]

Will Kosovo, which has failed to elect a president, head to the polls for a third time? Bulgaria, which has repeatedly called early elections in the Balkans but failed to secure a result from the ballot boxes, now faces a […]

Significant developments are taking place in Cyprus and the Aegean Sea. Greece, using the US attack on Iran as a pretext, sent four F-16s and two frigates to southern Cyprus on a permanent basis; it deployed Patriot missiles to the […]