The signs were growing this month that Turkey's quiet revolution may have begun to eat its own children, as the government hastily amended a law to prevent courts questioning close allies of Prime Minister Erdogan in the country's national intelligence agency.
Parliament voted the amendment through on 16 February, just over a week after prosecutors had issued a summons against national intelligence (MIT) chief Hakan Fidan as a suspect in a long-running terrorism investigation.
Prosecutors ...
Across Syria, indications are mounting that the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad is fraying. A ten-month campaign to crush the Syrian uprising has failed. The economy is reeling from the effects of sanctions. The Arab League has called for the removal of President Assad, and is pushing the UN Security Council to endorse its transition plan. Growing numbers of soldiers are defecting to the Free Syrian Army, intensifying regime concerns about the reliability of its armed forces. Zabadan...
One of the most serious consequences of the 2011 revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa has been the impact of political instability on the regional economy. Egypt has...
Iran’s threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz—the narrow waterway in which one-fifth of the world’s daily oil supplies must pass—is a bluff, and the internation...
The seasons go by but Syria’s Arab Spring shows no sign of passing. Bashar Al-Assad’s strategy remains that of buying himself more time, in the hopes that a combination of ...
Recep Erdogan has succeeded in re-energizing Turkey’s role in the world. His re-election, in June 2011, to a third term as Prime Minister after retaining the AKP’s majority...
Hisham Bastawisy is a well-respected and eminent judge, formerly in charge of the Egyptian Cassation Court, a branch of the judiciary with the responsibility of monitoring and ...
The Arab world is facing its most turbulent year since 1973, and there are no signs that the Spring—which became an Autumn and now a Winter—has any signs of tapering off. I...
Gamal Abdel Nasser, was a unique politician. Although it has been more than four decades since his death, his politics still inspire many. The Nasserist Ideology is now o...
One of the most telling developments of the Libyan uprising was the flight of senior members of the Qadhafi family, including Muammar Qadhafi’s wife and three of his children...
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