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40 articles · Writing for PUGAT 2021–2026 · 3 series
Euphrates Shield, which began with Jarablus in August 2016, was the TSK’s first comprehensive operation against ISIS. The operation ended ISIS’s presence on the border.
In February 2015 the TSK carried out an operation without fighting to bring back the soldiers at the Tomb of Süleyman Shah. According to the author, it was the only and most measured cross-border operation before 15 July.
Turkey’s cross-border operations in Syria, from Shah Euphrates to Claw-Sword. The introductory article of the series examines what the operations have in common, above all their timing.
More than a million people fleeing the war in Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany. But the support provided and arbitrary administrative practices have sparked debate over unequal treatment compared with other migrant groups.
Although those dismissed by emergency decree come from every part of society, they are branded with a single label. The author draws attention to a silent society and to ongoing social exclusion.
Once celebrities boasted of their music cassettes; today secretly recorded tapes bring politicians down. The author comments on the “tape era” in Turkish politics and the role of social media in it.
Politics that holds up a multinational civilisation as its model while feeding on nationalism verging on racism is a deep contradiction. The author criticises a style of government that claims to follow Mehmed the Conqueror.
Behind the walls, a child whose chained father no longer recognises him. A story that tells, through a child’s eyes, of the families torn apart in the camps of East Turkestan.
Can the harsh and angry characters of Russian literature also be reflected in a country’s way of governing? The author argues that Russia is trapped in its own vicious circle of Soviet nostalgia.
Expecting a swift victory, Putin ran into Ukraine’s resistance. The author recalls similar historical examples of arrogance and underestimating one’s opponent.
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