Where Do We Go from Here? - Turkish Policy Quarterly

ForewordThursday, June 17, 2021
Following up on the Winter 2020/21 edition, TPQ’s Spring 2021 issue continues with the series of debates that we hope to ignite on “systems in decay,” and the shifting world order at large. On that note, this edition...

TPQ Team

The Power To Change The WorldMonday, June 14, 2021
Sport plays a significant role in American culture, and continues to have broad appeal at all levels of society. We all have some connection to sport, whether it’s recreational activity with family and friends,...

Delise O’Meally

What Is Wrong? Part 2Monday, June 14, 2021
Turkey has been isolated over the past decade by international powers, along with regional allies, with the purpose of getting things done in its neighborhood—without Turkey. Now, in this new decade, China faces similar...

Kemal Köprülü

Turkey Needs To Respond To China’s Crimes Against HumanityMonday, June 14, 2021
The Chinese government’s oppression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim peoples is not new, but it has reached unprecedented levels since late 2016. In addition to China’s mass arbitrary detention and pervasive restrictions on practicing...

Maya Wang

The Istanbul Convention Keeps AliveMonday, June 14, 2021
The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence, widely known in Turkey and the world as the “Istanbul Convention,” opened for signature on 11 May 2011 in Istanbul. Turkey was the...

Tuba Torun

Would a Farewell To Erdoğan Mean Democracy for Turkey?Monday, June 14, 2021
For Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, maintaining a grip on power is becoming increasingly difficult after an incessant 18-year-long reign. Erdoğan owed his popularity, largely, to the delivery of good governance, robust services, and...

The Istanbul Convention & Our Struggle For Gender EqualityMonday, June 14, 2021
At midnight on 19 March 2021, in my beloved country, it was suddenly announced that a decision was made to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, of which the official title is, “Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence...

Gözde Serbest

2020: The Year Of ChangeMonday, June 14, 2021
On the day that Barack Obama was inaugurated as the President of the United States of America in 2009, I was asked this simple question: “So, what do you think about the first Black man being elected to the presidency?” I replied,...

Nancy Butler

Extremism in Pakistan: Causes & Remedies Monday, June 14, 2021
Extremism is a worldwide phenomenon and no nation is free of it. However, the essence of extremism varies from society to society as a result of socio-economic opportunities. In economically rich societies the prospects of extremism will be...

Ali Abbas

Book Review: Pusto turskoMonday, June 14, 2021
Professor Dr. Darko Tanaskovic is a well-known Serbian scholar, translator, and diplomat. He was a professor at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Philology for over 30 years before retiring in 2018, even serving as the head of the...

Miloš Todorovic

Where Do We Go from Here?Vol 20. No 1. Spring 2021

Where Do We Go from Here?
Vol 20. No 1. Spring 2021