THE
WEAK SPOTS OF THE ISIS
WHERE IS TURKEY'S FOREIGN POLICY HEADING TO?
After the end of World War II, Turkey developed a foreign policy aimed at obtaining a prestigious international role. It joined NATO, became an ally of the West and aimed at becoming part of the European Union. This approach was the political legacy of Kemal Ataturk and of the secularism he had imposed over the country...
IS THERE NO END TO UKRAINE'S CRISIS?
The crisis in Ukraine (a de facto armed conflict) started on November 21, 2013, and went through several truces, the last of which in December of 2014. This latest truce could be the prelude, hopefully, of a “cease fire”; all the while, in the Russian Federation (the main source of support and financing for the pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine) there is rising discontent among the common folk, small bourgeoisie, “intelligentsia” and even on the part of a few oligarchs who had previously acclaimed the operation to “salvage Crimea and the Ukraine republics” that had proclaimed their independence in view of the creation of the State of Donbass in Eastern Ukraine...
