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Security policy, counter-terrorism, intelligence and defence in Europe and Turkey, from the individual’s sense of security to the strategies of states.
Silencing the guns matters, but lasting peace requires independent verification, victims’ rights and democratisation. Examples from Sierra Leone to Colombia and from Northern Ireland to Chechnya show who pays the price when these safeguards are missing.
The Framework Law adopted in August 2026 grants conditional impunity to members of an armed organisation but opens no similar path for opponents who have never used violence. For the author, the problem is that the law applies differently depending on who you are.
In modern wars even the stronger side cannot win a decisive victory. The US and Israeli war against Iran has also stalled in a state of neither war nor peace without reaching its goals; every side will declare itself the winner, and the peoples will be the losers.
Children who lose their families in the middle of war and cross borders barefoot may, if no one takes care of them, become the young people most easily recruited by tomorrow’s radical organisations. How can the vicious circle of terrorism be broken?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its third year. Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced, Western support has turned into a “favour”, and Russia has revived its economy despite sanctions.
While war continues in Ukraine, the Middle East is ablaze again. As leaders and the media fan the flames, is the world reliving 1914, when an assassination started a great war, or 9/11, which fuelled Islamophobia?
How meaningful is it to talk about terror and terrorists the morning after a night of massacre in Gaza? On the point where words and humanity end in the face of images of children’s bodies.
After the attack on İstiklal Avenue, the real question is this: was there intelligence about the attack, and if so, what measures were taken? The author calls for accountability.
The shadow of the 1995 killing of Colonel Rıdvan Özden falls on today’s politics. Starting from a YouTube interview, the author questions the dark reckonings of an earlier era.
Selahattin Demirtaş’s condemnation of the September 2022 attack on a police guesthouse in Mersin drew a harsh response from the PKK. The author assesses how this debate reflects on Kurdish politics.
Confessions about the assassination of Necip Hablemitoğlu have put fugitive Colonel Levent Göktaş at the centre of the agenda. The author comments on the covert fight between deep-state cliques ahead of the elections.
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.
Yelena Osipova, a survivor of the siege of Leningrad detained with her anti-war placard, became a symbol of the individual who will not stay silent under repression. The author discusses the dynamics of conformity and courage through social psychology experiments.
The war between two peoples who share a common history, language and culture has turned into fratricide. The author stresses that no struggle that sheds innocent blood can be just.
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