News archive of July 2017

The British-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and the Evropa Misli think tank have established the Brexit Ambition initiative which aims to identify potential difficulties which businesses will encounter as a result of the exit of the UK from the EU. The initiative is also preparing position papers for presentation to the Slovenian Government.

Since last week, Turkey has been suffering one of the most intense heatwaves in a century.

In this hear, the thousands of people are taking part in shifts in the "justice march" of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. They are struggling under the burning sun over their head and also the melting asphalt under their feet. 

My first reaction to the Dec. 17 and Dec. 25, 2013 corruption operations was: "An anti-corruption operation is sometimes not just an anti-corruption operation." In contrast, I have regarded the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's long march from Ankara to Istanbul from the start by thining: "A justice march sometimes is only a justice march."  

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, with almost unprecedented political agility, has somehow finally transformed himself into an opposition leader who actually sets the agenda. 

Back in the 1960's, Jack Harlan, a devoted American agronomist harvested wild wheat in southeastern Turkey as if a gatherer would do 10,000 years ago. He first tried using only his hands; hand-stripping the mature wheat ears, then he tried using a replica of an ancient sickle, a razor-sharp flint blade embedded in a wooden handle.

It has always been useful to check the Greek-American print media as an alternative insight into U.S. and Greek relations. Some with a publishing life more than a century old, have enough professional aptitude, giving us useful information to complete the puzzle.

The July 2016 coup attempt of Fethullah Gülen's followers took decades of systematic planning, which involved the infiltration of the Turkish Armed Forces from bottom to top. By the time of the coup attempt, Gülen's followers occupied almost half of the general and admiral positions. 

Turkey's drug problem, which has come under increasing public scrutiny in recent weeks, is largely a result of chaotic urbanization, according to veteran psychiatrist Kültekin Ögel.

A resolution cannot be an easy task. Some 50 years of intercommunal talks underscore what an uphill road might be ahead for all those who flocked to the Swiss winter resort town of Crans-Montana for the Cyprus conference. No one could challenge U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres's remark that "some sensitive and difficult issues remain to be resolved ...

Turkey's rulers sound like the country is on the verge of a formal declaration of war against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). The YPG is already listed as a terrorist organization, as a branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and recognized as one of the major threats against Turkey's security. However, it is only after U.S.