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Items by Ferhat Polat
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Turkey’s role in global stability
The early 21st century has been marked by the rise of new players who are increasingly demonstrating their independent capacity to affect politics around the globe. Turkey has become a formidable growth zone that has attracted the attention of Western powers and experts in security and economic issues, most...
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Turkey's Syrian Refugees Challenge
The Syrian conflict and humanitarian crisis, entering its sixth year, has driven a large influx of refugees into Turkey. The official number has already reached almost 3 million, making the country the largest host of Syrian refugees. In political, social and economic terms, Turkey is the most affected country...
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Creating failed states in the Middle East
Five-year old Omran Daqneesh sits silently and in shock in the seat of an ambulance. This poor little child looks so defeated, traumatised and empty that it’s enough to bring anyone to tears. He wipes his head with his hand, looks down and realises its covered in blood. Instead...
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The rift between Turkey and the US
Turkey has long been a significant partner for the United States and NATO. It is strategically located between Europe and the Middle East and, for decades, Turkey and the US have cooperated in many areas, from the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf to Central Asia and even Korea. There...
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Unwanted refugees in Europe
Conflict, persecution and starvation; these are the common factors that drive people from their homes, forcing them to make the well-nigh impossible decision to abandon their lives as they know them and seek refuge in a strange country. The United Nations has reported that more than 60 million people...