22 March 2013
by rtraynor
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Last month, iron anti-riot shutters boarded up the street-side windows of the Grande Bretagne hotel ballroom in Athens as fine-suited patriarchs of Greek and Cypriot industry gathered for the annual Athens Energy Forum, hoping that recent discoveries deep beneath the … Continue reading
22 March 2013
by Crisis Group
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As a new peace process is under way between the Turkish state and the armed Kurdish insurgency, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, sent a much-anticipated message to Turkey’s Kurds. The message, signalling the start of a … Continue reading
13 March 2013
by Didem A. Collinsworth
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Many people in Turkey, including myself, feel cautiously optimistic about the latest round of peace talks which began in late 2012 between the Turkish state and Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). When I … Continue reading
5 March 2013
by rtraynor
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The translucent white marble stairs and cream gilt and stucco ceilings of the ceremonial hall of Ankara’s new presidential palace rarely echo to spontaneous applause, but the words “Turkey will always be part of my heart” did the trick. The … Continue reading