Fayez al-Sarraj, Libya’s prime minister, visited the Turkish capital on Thursday to hold talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Unlike in the past, his hosts in Ankara welcomed a joyous Libyan leader, celebrating the liberation of Tripoli, including its international […]
As the world learns to live with the new normal in the post-pandemic period, all the ancient wars of words in Turkey’s political arena are already back. For days, the Turkish people have been talking about subtle hints from the […]
It has become increasingly clear that the post-COVID-19 world will set the stage for fierce competition. The pandemic’s negative economic impact, rather than the outbreak itself, will trigger fresh crises. After all, the world’s leading nations, which could not join […]
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis a lot of countries and international institutions failed in the test of containing and managing this crisis. Among these, were the most advanced nations, economic powerhouses of the world and the most sophisticated […]
Ignore The New York Times’ smear campaign against Turkey’s COVID-19 response. The United States tops the list of the world’s most unsuccessful countries in fighting the coronavirus. U.S. President Donald Trump, who previously dismissed the possibility of a second wave […]
In Dan Brown’s thriller, “Inferno,” the enigmatic, crazed billionaire geneticist Bertrand Zobrist drafts a plan to disseminate a deadly pathogen to the world in order to deal with the issue of the planet’s out-of-control rates of population growth. According to […]
That mankind will draw lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is just wishful thinking. The virus outbreak cannot seem to end violence or the struggle for power. The situation in Libya supports this claim. In the civil war-stricken country, the United […]
Global cases of the coronavirus surpassed 1 million last week. Hardly anyone will be surprised if 2 million people are infected in a week’s time. With the exception of China, the coronavirus outbreak has not reached its peak in any […]
As people across Turkey comply with the government’s call to stay home and declare their individual state of emergency, COVID-19 remains at the top of the nation’s agenda. Just as hygiene becomes an obsession, we cannot seem to stop talking […]
Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has become the embodiment of the country’s fight against the coronavirus. He urged everyone last week to “declare their own state of emergency” – possibly suggesting that the Turkish government was not prepared to impose […]
As China declares victory over the coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) says Europe has become the pandemic’s epicenter. With Italy’s death toll on the rise, Western leaders have responded to the crisis in different ways. It is possible to […]
It’s fair to say the world is more than fixated on the COVID-19 outbreak. The fear of illness unites us all. We are watching the virus spread and adapting our daily lives by taking precautions accordingly. Society’s current concern over […]
The Idlib crisis reached another turning point after the signing of the Turkish-Russian agreement last week during President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Moscow. Reports indicated that the challenging process of negotiations carried on for more than six hours. The […]
On Monday, January 6, 2020, the SETA Foundation at Washington, DC hosted a panel of experts to discuss ‘Turkey’s Mediterranean Policy.’ The discussion featured Burhanettin Duran, General Coordinator of The SETA Foundation, and Cagri Erhan, Rector of Altinbas University and […]
November 4, 2019 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm The Russian Federation began to overcome some of its residual political, economic, and military problems progressively after the demise of the Soviet Union, and since the end of the 1990s has begun […]
On September 10, 2019 the SETA Foundation at Washington, DC hosted a panel discussion titled, “Countering Violent Extremism in Libya: A Peacebuilding Perspective” moderated by Hasan Yucel, Research Assistant at SETA DC. Panelists included Dr. Talha Köse, Senior Researcher at […]
In history textbooks for the next generation, the Syrian civil war will probably be one of the most critical aspects to study. Aside from the length and complexity of the civil war, the humanitarian catastrophe it has created in the […]
Turkey has a very busy agenda ahead of itself for the month of June.. Turkey has a very busy agenda ahead of itself for the month of June. The top item obviously is the June 23 Istanbul mayoral election. Starting […]
The increasing doubts of the Turkish public regarding NATO are based on the organization’s apathy toward the security concerns of Turkey
The SETA Foundation at Washington D.C. held a private roundtable discussionon “Turkish-American Relations” on May 21, 2019 with Yavuz Selim Kıran, Deputy Foreign Minister of Turkey, Çağrı Erhan, Member of Presidential Security and Foreign Affairs Council and Rector of Altınbaş University, and Bora Bayraktar, General Manager of CNN Türk. The conversation was moderated by Kılıç Buğra Kanat, Research Director, the SETA Foundation at Washington D.C.
For the last several years one of the most frequently written topics in regards to U.S. relations with its allies have been the future of its partnership with Turkey. Many U.S. allies have been watching the relations between the two […]
Monday, April 15, 2019 12:00pm – 1:15pm Since President Trump’s decision in December 2018 to withdraw from Syria, the U.S. and Turkey have been working to find a formula that addresses Turkey’s security concerns while ensuring no power vacuum is […]
Although the recount of some ballots in Istanbul is ongoing, analysts have started to discuss the outcome of the local elections that took place in Turkey on Sunday. It will be hard to summarize the potential outcomes of the elections […]
People went to the polls on Sunday to elect the local administrators for the cities and municipalities around Turkey. For the last two months, political parties campaigned extensively throughout Turkey. The high voter turnout rate again proved the Turkish people’s […]
Following the attack on a mosque by a terrorist last Friday, there has been an intense debate about the sources of this attack and how to stop the repetition of similar attacks in different parts of the world. How to […]
Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that the U.S. was planning to leave behind around 1,000 American soldiers after its withdrawal from Syria. The report was quickly denied by General Joseph Dunford, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for […]
The advance of the U.S. supported YPG-led SDF forces seems to have slowed down although President Trump had announced that it was a matter of a week before the last patch of territory in Daesh hands could be retrieved. It is no […]
Over the last two weeks, I’ve written in this column that based on the most significant strategic documents and threat assessment reports, the United States is adopting a new foreign policy based on updated geopolitical and geo-economic factors in the […]
There are many different debates and discussions on the direction of U.S. foreign policy among scholars and practitioners of international relations today. In most of these debates the general idea is on the unpredictability of U.S. policy, absence of U.S. […]
Turkish-American relations are at a juncture as U.S. withdrawal from Syria is underway, as two NATO allies to implement the Manbij roadmap.