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Turkey can be a democratic model for the Middle East
Epiphanies from Abdullah Gul Turkey can be a democratic model for the Middle East, its president says. As the first openly devout president of Turkey, Abdullah Gul believes his country can be a model for the new wave of Islamic democracies sprouting across the Arab world. But a region that seemed so hopeful when Gul [...]
The New Crossroads of History
Ten things you didn’t know about Turkey. No walls fell in Turkey at the end of the Cold War; there was no color-coded revolution. Yet, arguably, the country is in the throes of a transformation as profound as those of its neighbors. A country that once served as a lonely sentinel on NATO’s southern flank [...]
Don’t Fear a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East
The conventional wisdom has it wrong: Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon won’t spur its neighbors to get the bomb. On March 21, Haaretz correspondent Ari Shavit wrote a powerful op-ed in the New York Times that began with this stark and stunning claim: “An Iranian atom bomb will force Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt to acquire their own atom bombs.” [...]
Iran & It’s Nuclear Weapons Programme
In this article we will try to explain the Iranian power structure and the Iranian nuclear programme. We will deal with the Iranian power structure first. Let us start with the Presidency. In theory, the President of Iran is a directly elected (something of a sham, as the 2005 election turnout showed) and second only [...]
A New Challenge for Our Military
It’s time to hold the generals accountable for Afghanistan and Iraq. We have lost more than lives in our wars in the Middle East, more than money, more than precious elements of our national reputation. We have also lost our ability to judge our actions or their consequences with a critical eye. Yes, certainly there [...]
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