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Haluk Tükel
Both Turkey and the EU need to work harder and start communicating, to repair the
damages of the Luxembourg summit. |
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TÜSİAD research group
There are clear signals that to continue muddling through, the economy needs structural
reforms. |
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Muharrem Kayhan
The outgoing chairman reflects on the role TÜSİAD can play in foreign policy. |
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İlter Turan
The NSC kept the pressure on the Islamists that regrouped, Syria let Öcalan
go and for the Mafia the day of reckoning has come. |
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Ümit İzmen
Turkey has dealt with the shock of the Russian crisis well. Yet, the economy may
send alarm signals unless the deficit is reduced. |
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A portrait of Yaşar Kemal, the master petitioner
Photograph by Müslim Şip, essay by Zülfü Livaneli. |
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Canan Kadıoğlu
stanbul is a city of festivals. The Yapı Kredi Festival wants to keep the show on
all year round. |
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Nilüfer Kuyaş
British author Hugh Poulton raises important questions and gives intriguing answers
in his book, Top Hat, Grey Wolf and Crescent. |
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Sabiha Suner
A brief journey in the GAP region full of history, culinary delights, even "tea with
abraham!" |
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İhsan Oktay Anar
War cannot be a continuation of politics because its language is different. If so,
then who has the right to write "on war"? |
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GAP (Southeastern Anatolia Project) |
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Olcay Ünver
The director general of the GAP Administration presents a brief and concise report
of his project and what it is supposed to accomplish. |
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Mustafa Sönmez
In order to understand the role that GAP could play in its region one needs
to know the "story of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia". Mustafa Sönmez offers
a quantitative analysis. |
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Kenan Mortan
As a frequent visitor to the region and the author of a number of development projects
about its cities, Dr. Mortan presents a personal critique in his "GAP: Intentions,
Hopes, Actions, Results." |
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David Judson
The gigantic proportions of GAP and the promise it holds for Turkey and beyond can
only be understood in a comparative perspective. Journalist David Judson puts GAP
in context in his "The gap that GAP will fill." |
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Sevinç Türker
For millenia the region where GAP is being built relied on husbandry for its livelihood.
In her "Reviving what we know best", Dr. Sevinç Türker looks at the future
of husbandry in the region. |
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Ali Çarkoğlu-Mine Eder
In the 21st Century water will be as precious as oil for the oil-rich Middle East.
Will the relatively water-rich Turkey share the waters of the Euphrates-Tigris basin
with her neighbors? Are "water wars" a destiny? Ali Çarkoğlu and Mine
Eder look at all the dimensions of the issue in their "GAP and the Water Conflict." |
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Kemal Kirişci
In "The Kurdish Question and Turkish Foreign Policy",
Kemal KiriFçi analyzes the competing views on the Kurdish issue and reflects
on their effect on Turkey's democratization and on the conduct of foreign policy. |
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Doğan Bayazıt
The former secretary general of the National Security
Council, retired General Doğan Bayazıt explains why the "Kurdish problem"
is actually an imaginary one manipulated to weaken Turkey in his "The Kurdish Problem
and the PKK Terror." |
