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RETHINKING AFGHANISTAN AND BEYOND
I am aware there is a growing fatigue over the multiplicity of articles of late on Afghanistan. I shall thus not be repetitive on aspects...

Şafak Göktürk
Sep 17, 202111 min read
AFGANİSTAN'IN YALIN HALİ
Diplomaside, Alman filozof Nietzsche’den alıntı “şeytan ayrıntılarda" deyimi sıkça kullanılır. Bununla kastedilen, anlaşma ya da...

Şafak Göktürk
Jun 28, 20213 min read
ORTADOĞU'DA ALDATMACANIN SONU
Kudüs, Filistin-İsrail ihtilafının kalbidir. Harem-i Şerif ise şahdamarıdır. İsrail hükûmetleri ne zaman buraya abandılarsa, ortalık,...

Şafak Göktürk
May 16, 20214 min read


A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
The prospect of Turkey’s membership in the European Union has always been a contentious matter. Turkey obviously needs to conform to the...

Şafak Göktürk
Mar 2, 20216 min read


TURKEY-GREECE STANDOFF; A CLASH OF PERCEPTIONS
Observers characterize the uneasy relationship between Turkey and Greece variously as historically troubled, a combination of politics...

Şafak Göktürk
Feb 17, 202111 min read
BÖLGESEL SAHİPLENME NEDİR, NE DEĞİLDİR
Bölgesel işbirliği, Atatürk’ün Cumhuriyetimizle özdeşleşmiş “yurtta barış, dünyada barış" ilkesinin ana sütunlarından biridir. Zira,...

Şafak Göktürk
Jan 13, 20217 min read
2021 YILINDA TÜRK DIŞ POLİTİKASININ OLASI SEYRİ VE BEKLENTİLER
2021 yılına ilişkin tahminlerin aşağıdaki dört düzlemi tanımlayan veriler üzerinden yapılması gerekir: -Dünya'da durum, -Bölgede durum,...

Şafak Göktürk
Dec 15, 20202 min read


ARAB UPRISINGS: TEN YEARS ON
It has been a full decade since a young and hapless street vendor in Tunisia self-immolated, sparking the Arab uprising. The process set...

Şafak Göktürk
Dec 14, 20209 min read


ARAP BAŞKALDIRISI: ON YIL SONRA
Tunus'ta seyyar satıcı bir gencin kendisini yakarak ateşlediği Arap başkaldırısının üzerinden on yıl geçti. Tunus'taki devinim 2011...

Şafak Göktürk
Nov 20, 20206 min read


WHAT HAS(N’T) CHANGED?
We are in a transfer room. The lockdown phase triggered by the Covid-19pandemic is winding down, yet we are still languishing in the...

Şafak Göktürk
Jun 8, 20206 min read


POST-CORONAVIRUS STATES
The coronavirus pandemic caught the world unguarded. With the notable exception of the Republic of Korea, a handful of other countries...

Şafak Göktürk
Apr 1, 202010 min read


END GAME IN SYRIA
The “Mehmetcik”, as we affectionately refer to our young men under arms, remain in harm’s way in Syria’s Idlib Governorate. This ominous...

Şafak Göktürk
Feb 7, 20205 min read


YALIN GERÇEK
Idlib'de Şubat ayında 60'a yakın şehit verdik. Bu şehitler muharebe anı kayıplarımız değil. Hava desteğinden yoksun, pasif hedefler...

Şafak Göktürk
Feb 6, 20203 min read


ALL QUITE OBVIOUS ON THE EASTERN FRONT
The killing of Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Al Quds Commander, by the United States, has left the pundits and the public...

Şafak Göktürk
Jan 9, 20205 min read


CANAL ISTANBUL: IS IT ABOUT MONTREUX OR DUBAI?
Let me begin with a quotation: “I attributed great significance to the success of this Conference in the name of international...

Şafak Göktürk
Dec 27, 20195 min read


THE UNBEARABLE DISTRACTION OF THE DOMESTIC-FOREIGN POLICY MIX
A country’s foreign policy is the combined derivative of its constant and dynamic assets as well as its normative make-up. As such, it is...

Şafak Göktürk
Nov 27, 20194 min read


GEOPOLITICS OVER SYRIA
As involved governments strive to influence Syria’s future and the international public keeps wondering what to expect next, the...

Şafak Göktürk
Nov 17, 201912 min read
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