Despite Turkish inflation peaking at 85%, deadly earthquakes in February which claimed more than 50 000 lives, an ongoing divisive migration crisis and the Kurdish issue, incumbent President Erdoğan and his…
On 05.04.2023 Finland became the 31st member of NATO. For a long time Turkey blocked Finland's application for NATO membership, but finally agreed. Sweden is an altogether different story. Ankara…
The unprecedented humanitarian tragedy caused by the earthquakes in Turkey and nothern Syria might be the beginning of the end for President Erdogan’s bid for reelection. Buildings collapsing and burying…
Turkish TV dramas and historical fictions are quickly becoming an important soft power tool. Their popularity spans the globe and their reach is not confined to the Muslim word. These…
Erdogan has successfully brokered a prolongation of the Grain Deal to mid-March 2023. Turkey’s President has seized this unique opportunity to mediate between Russia and Ukraine and is using this…
TikTok has announced a strategy to promote election integrity in the lead-up to the 2022 US midterm elections. While this has been welcomed by many, it also raises questions about…
On 5 September Kenya’s Supreme Court upheld William Ruto as the winner of the presidential election. He faces the great task of solving Kenya’s internal economic and social issues. Moreover,…
In May 2022, Lebanon held parliamentary elections for the first time since the 2019 political revolution and the 2020 Beirut blast. Lebanon now faces a political corruption crisis and economic…
Neither the vote of no confidence against PM Boris Johnson nor May’s local elections across the UK have dealt the terminal blow to Johnson’s premiership, yet the country’s political landscape…
The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in India is reaching a boiling point as Modi and the BJP government are sharing dangerous rhetoric and encouraging communal ethnic violence. With some far-right…