The public agenda in Turkey was busy with three main topics as we reached the new year of 2021. The first topic was the ratification of an extradition treaty between the People’s Republic of China and Turkey. The extradition treaty caused a public outcry among the exiled Uyghur community in Turkey and among some political circles affiliated with the Uyghur ...
Stefan Zweig explains the great breaking points which caused a change in history with the following words in his book, Decisive Moments in History; “The tragic and fate-determining moments, in which a single decision that has passed through the ages are compressed into a single calendar, a single hour, and often a single minute, is quite rare in a life ...
Turkish-Israeli relations have received some warm messages in the recent weeks. Mesut Hakkı Caşın, Member of Presidential Committee on Security and Foreign Policy declared “if Israel takes one positive step, Turkey will take two”, President Erdogan followed by saying “We would like to bring our ties to a better point”. Bilateral ties have seen tensions since the attack on the ...
Two different and even opposing events marked the last days of 2020 from the European perspective: On the one side, the highly disputed Brexit-deal was signed off. On the other side, an even higher, in fact seven years long disputed negotiation came to conclusion: the European Union – China Comprehensive Investment Agreement (CAI). Announced on the 30th of December, the ...