Kadri Gursel |
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Friday, May 17, 2013 |
In meeting with US President Barack Obama, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to have committed Turkey to the Geneva process that foresees a diplomatic solution to the Syrian crisis. |
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Monday, May 13, 2013 |
Turkey’s Syria policy neglects the security of its citizens and borders. |
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Friday, May 10, 2013 |
Murat Karayilan, a leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is taking the peace file with Turkey from imprisoned Abdullah Ocalan, signaling normalization of the process, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 |
UN investigator Carla Del Ponte's disclosure of the possible use of chemical weapons by Syrian rebels should force Turkey to think again about its Syria policy, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Monday, May 6, 2013 |
If Turkey doesn't change its partisan, sectarian approach to Syria, it will provoke further sectarian tensions among armed groups in Turkey and the region, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 |
The abduction of two Syrian archbishops by armed men on their way to Aleppo while returning from Turkey should be a warning to Ankara that it needs to review its security policies, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Friday, Apr 26, 2013 |
Turkey's legal Kurdish political party, the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), suggests it will oppose a constitutional amendment that would introduce an “oppressive and authoritarian presidential regime.” |
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Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 |
The Kurdish movement is already declaring that it will again have an armed presence in Iran, complicating Turkey’s peace initiative, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Sunday, Apr 21, 2013 |
The 10-month suspended prison sentence of pianist Fazil Say on grounds of his (re)tweets is the signal for an introduction of a new taboo called “Sunni Islam” in Turkey, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Monday, Apr 15, 2013 |
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has chosen a delegation of "Wise People" to convince Turkish citizens about the benefits of his Kurdish peace plan, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Friday, Apr 5, 2013 |
Although Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan insists that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) should withdraw from Turkey without their weapons, this is not likely to happen, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Wednesday, Apr 3, 2013 |
Normalization of ties with the Kurds and Israel are part of a broader strategy for an Ottoman sphere of influence and confrontation with the "Shiite axis," writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 |
Turkey once sought a nuclear-free region but now covets the protection from its neighbors that is afforded by US nuclear bombs, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Monday, Mar 25, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's acceptance of the Israeli apology, although a positive development, is more important than the actual apology. |
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Monday, Mar 18, 2013 |
Turkey, both to protect itself from the potential negative consequences of regionalization of the Kurdish issue and to remove the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a threat, had no choice but to seek peace with its own Kurds, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Friday, Mar 15, 2013 |
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) expects confidence-building measures and is seeking to lower expectations in its talks with Turkey, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Tuesday, Mar 12, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes on the three men who are critical to Turkey’s future: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK]; and Fethullah Gulen, exiled head of the Gulen Sunni movement. |
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Friday, Mar 8, 2013 |
Syrian President Bashar Assad’s meeting in Damascus with members of the opposition Republican People’s Party has exposed the weakness of Turkey’s Syria policy, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Friday, Mar 1, 2013 |
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s negotiations with Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), are not just over a peace agreement; they have implications for the future of the Turkish presidency, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes on how the letters of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), signal both a first step in building confidence and the difficulties to achieving a final agreement. |
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Sunday, Feb 24, 2013 |
Turkey’s membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization would not only fail to make any contribution to Turkish democracy, but might be a setback to recent progress, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Friday, Feb 22, 2013 |
A recent poll shows that Turkey’s interventionist policies have little domestic support and that Turkey remains wary of outside alliances, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 |
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s campaign to ban alcohol has now reached Turkish Airlines, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 |
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking allies to support a new Turkish constitution, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 |
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's approach to the presidential system concentrates power in the hands of one person, eliminating the checks and balances necessary for institutions to pursue their duties, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Monday, Feb 4, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes that by criminalizing any press article that seems sympathetic to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), the Turkish government worsens its image as a leading violator of press freedom. |
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Sunday, Feb 3, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel argues that Revolutionary Peoples’ Liberation Party-Front [DHKP-C] suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara is a response to Turkey’s policies in Syria. |
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Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 |
Kadri Gürsel writes that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is serious about his bid to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. |
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Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 |
The Republican People’s Party has characterized a political solution to the Kurdish question as compromising Turkey’s secular national identity, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Sunday, Jan 27, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes that Kurdish and other opposition groups are pleased with the replacement of Idris Naim Sahin as Turkish interior minister. |
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Friday, Jan 25, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes that the current talks between the Turkish government and Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), cannot disentangle the problem of PKK terrorism from a political solution to Turkey's Kurdish issue. |
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Monday, Jan 21, 2013 |
Kadri Gürsel reflects on the life and career of Mehmet Ali Birand, who passed away on Jan. 17, 2013. |
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Friday, Jan 18, 2013 |
The funeral of the three murdered PKK activists in Diyarbakir proceeded without incident, and without posters of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 |
Prime Minister Erdogan's peace initiative with the PKK should be understood in the context of his other domestic political initiatives, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Friday, Jan 11, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel speculates on whether the murders of three PKK activists in Paris might be linked to the recent peace initiative between Ankara and the PKK, and the "regionalization" of the Kurdish issue in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. |
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Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel analyzes Turkey's European policies, its prospects for EU membership and what this all means for the "Turkish model." |
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Sunday, Jan 6, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes that whether the Turkish government’s intention is to stall for time with Ocalan to secure another violence-free election period or whether it is truly an intention to solve the Kurdish issue, the task of the AKP is a formidable one. |
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Friday, Jan 4, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes that Iran's fury at NATO's deployment of Patriot missiles to Turkey is also related to Anakara and Tehran's competing interests in Syria. |
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Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 |
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes that Turkey may benefit from a cold war with Israel, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Wednesday, Jan 2, 2013 |
Kadri Gursel writes that Turkey may be supporting Salafi groups in northern Syria to prevent a third Kurdish front. |
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Friday, Dec 28, 2012 |
Kadri Gursel writes that Turkey's request for NATO Patriot missiles reveals its lack of capacity and few other options to handle regional threats. |
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Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 |
By throwing its lot completely with Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey will sustain costs whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stays or goes, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 |
Turkey's newest political party, Huda-Par, a legal Islamic Kurdish party from within Hezbollah, marks a rapid divergence of the paths of Kurdish and Turkish Islamists, writes Kadri Gursel. |
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Friday, Dec 21, 2012 |
A Turkey that can’t resolve its own Kurdish problem through peaceful means can’t talk of “zero problems” with the Syrian Kurds today or tomorrow, writes Kadri Gürsel. |
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Monday, Dec 17, 2012 |
The differences between Prime Minister Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul are becoming more interesting, writes Kadri Gürsel, who calls their rivalry and possible 2014 presidential contest essentially personal. |
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Monday, Nov 5, 2012 |
The meeting of Syrian opposition groups in Qatar under the auspices of the Arab League (but at the behest of the United States) reveals how badly Turkey's custom-tailored Syrian National Council has failed, Kadri Gursel reports. |
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Thursday, Oct 25, 2012 |
The number of journalists imprisoned in Turkey went from eight in 2011 to at least 61 in 2012, a faster rise than any other country. Kadri Gursel asks how the earlier number could have been so small. |
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Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 |
After months of diplomatic pressure on the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey has now adopted something closer to a conventional military strategy in a bid to force a power transfer in Damascus, writes Kadri Gursel. He argues that Ankara’s high-risk strategy could bring all-out war to Turkey if handled incorrectly. |
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Saturday, Sep 1, 2012 |
With thousands of refugees fleeing Syria into neighboring Turkey, the residents of Hatay, close to the border, have been flooded with displaced people. Kadri Gursel examines the media reporting on the refugee situation there and critiques the emphasis on sect by some parts of the press. |
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Wednesday, Jul 25, 2012 |
Turkey is watching nervously as Kurds in northern Syria exert control over Kurdish-majority towns, writes Kadri Gursel. Turkey should not fear a "Lebanonized" Syria divided along ethnic lines, but instead should fear an independent Kurdistan that surrounds its southeastern border. |
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Monday, Jul 9, 2012 |
The recent bombshell interview with Bashar al-Assad published in the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet has raised the ire of the Turkish government. Kadri Gursel denounces the government’s reaction as absurd, writing that for the interview to be mistaken as propaganda is telling of the Turkish press’ habits of self-censorship. |
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Monday, Jun 25, 2012 |
Syria claims that Turkey violated its airspace this week, which is why Syria shot down its spy plane over the Mediterranean sea, writes Kadri Gursel. But there are still many burning questions left unanswered, which suggest Ankara was engaging in dangerous maneuvers amid an explosive political atmosphere. |
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Thursday, Mar 1, 2012 |
Not so long ago, Syria’s nationalist regime dreamed of a “‘Greater Syria”’ embracing its Lebanese neighbor to the sSouth, writes Kadri Gursel. But if no international coalition intervenes in Syria to protect the rights of minorities, Syria may rapidly turn into a “‘Greater Lebanon”’ divided along sectarian lines, she warns. |
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Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012 |
According to Kadri Gursel, President Sarkozy has accomplished three things with France’s new bill concerning the Armenian Genocide: He has scored domestic political points, prioritized his political ambitions ahead of France’s relations with Turkey, and challenged any future Turkish bid to join the EU. Turkey should react prudently, he cautions. |
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