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Gulf media right to showcase women journalists’ perspective

  • Kuwait, which is currently holding the rotating presidency of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), hosted the second Gulf Female Journalists’ Forum this week. This brought together a group of women journalists from various Gulf countries seeking to increase their media presence in the Arab world...
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Turkey reaches out to Iraq amid increasing regional challenges

  • Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali Al-Hakim in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on April 28, 2019. (AFP/HO/Iraqi Prime Minister’s Press Office) There is a very good sentence in Robert Mason’s 2014 book “Foreign Policy in Iran an...
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Eating sweet and talking sweet during Eid celebrations

  • It is too often during Eid Al-Fitr, the celebration at the end of the holy month of Ramadan, that we in Turkey hear the classic, or cliched, saying, “Where are those old Eids?” This saying not only shows how people long for the traditions and customs of past Eids and Ramadans, but is also a sta...
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In Syria, ‘if you are not at the table, then you are on the menu’

  • In the early years of the Syrian civil war, several peace conferences took place in an attempt to find a solution that could end the crisis. During one of those conferences, a senior diplomat told me, in reference to the relative positions of the countries involved: “If you are not at the table...
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Coping with Syria fallout: Turkey, Jordan show value of cooperation

  • Regional and international developments in the past decade have had significant effects on Turkey and Jordan, with the conflict on their doorsteps in Syria becoming their main cause for concern and for cooperation. Jordan, a country known for its neutral regional policy, is not normally afford...
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Empowered Erdogan to focus on economy, foreign policy

  • On Sunday, nearly 50 million Turkish voters went to the polls for a critical election, voting in both the president and the parliament. The turnout was 87 percent, the highest since 1987, and also higher than most of the established democracies around the world. The elections not only...
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From Doha With Love: World Cup reconciles people and nations

  • When the Italian referee Daniele Orsato blew his whistle to start the match between the host country Qatar and Ecuador at Al-Bayt Stadium last Sunday evening, the FIFA World Cup for 2022 officially kicked off. After that whistle, Qatar was a different place than I had seen it a day before. Hi...
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The need for Turkiye and the EU to work together

  • Netflix is currently streaming “The Swimmers,” a movie that dramatizes the true story of sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini. It depicts their journey as refugees from Syria to Germany via Turkiye and Greece in 2015. In particular it tells how they faced the chilling waters of the Aegean Sea when ...
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Why Erdogan and Netanyahu have decided to seek closer ties

  • The highly anticipated encounter between the leaders of Turkiye and Israel, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu, finally occurred on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. This was the first documented meeting between the two leaders. The two countries had close ties until...
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict calls for urgent regional cooperation

  • The ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas has extended beyond 10 days, resulting in a continuous loss of life with each passing hour. Since Oct. 7, Israeli forces have been relentlessly bombarding the blockaded Gaza Strip in full view of the world. A particularly tragic incident occurred at...
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