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Turkey’s Safe Zone in Northern Syria and International Law

21/10/201922/10/2019ISR EditorsLeave a Comment

By Ahmed E Souaiaia* Abstract: Mere hours before Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, visits with his Russian counterpart in Sochi, his government clarified the purpose of its invasion of Northern Syrian. The Turkish government frames its intervention as partly humanitarian, partly security missions. Considering that Erdoğan has called for such a “safe zone” as early […]

What the results of the 2018 Turkish elections tell us: a preliminary analysis

26/06/201828/09/2018isrLeave a Comment

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Turkey is now alone, thanks to its erratic alliances

20/01/201829/09/2018isrLeave a Comment

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A Kurdish referendum, now, is counterproductive

01/10/2017isrLeave a Comment

There is no doubt that the Kurdish people, like any other ethnic and linguistic community of their size, have a legitimate claim to self-determination. The Kurdish people in all five countries where they have a sizable population and in the diaspora, are more than 35 million people. Were they able to form a nation of […]

Full text of the list of demands submitted by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, and Egypt to Qatar

23/06/2017isrLeave a Comment

ISR comment: Four Arab States want Qatar to close down Aljazeera, a sign that the current crisis is in fact a reaction to and fear of the protest movements popularly known as the Arab Spring. It was on the pages of ISR that the role of Aljazeera in galvanizing social change in the Arab world […]

This Crisis between Saudi Arabia and Qatar likely to dismantle the GCC

05/06/2017isr1 Comment

Together, Saudi Arabian and Qatari rulers bankrolled armed rebellions that destroyed Libya, Syria, and Yemen. They offered political and military support to all armed groups that are willing to fight regimes they do not like. Their united front against their common enemies did nothing to remove their own internal problems. Now, they have to face […]

What went wrong with Turkey’s referendum?

27/04/2017isrLeave a Comment

Ayla Gol* Turkey has missed an historical opportunity to prove that liberal democracy could work in a Muslim country. On Sunday, the 16th of April, over 50 million people voted in a public referendum and approved a constitutional change leading to a stronger presidency with extended powers. The voters had two options in the ballot […]

Government of at least one of Gulf Cooperation Council nations continues to supply Nusra with weapons

27/04/2017isrLeave a Comment

Recent investigative reporting has revealed that weapons continue to reach al-Qaeda affiliate groups in Syria. Weapons shipments reached the group formerly known as al-Nusra as recent as April 6, 2017. The report did not name the government that is paying for these weapons. However, the government of… continue reading…

Was Astana Meeting on Syria a Success? Consider the reaction on the ground in Syria

28/01/2017isrLeave a Comment

Analysis: Was Astana Meeting on Syria a Success? Leader of the new faction created by Nusra: Abu Jabir al-Sheikh In past, when the U.S. administration and the Russian government attempted to solve the Syrian crisis, their efforts collapsed because they failed to reach an agreement on identifying and separating terrorist groups from non-terrorist groups, or […]

Why are Western governments angered by those who compare the military campaigns in Mosul and Aleppo?

04/12/2016isrLeave a Comment

Charred bodies of ISIL fighters suggest abuse Over the last weekend of the month of November, Russian military leaders reacted to Western criticism of Russia’s support to the Syrian government to retake eastern Aleppo from armed groups. They countered by accusing the U.S. and its allies of double standard. They suggested, essentially, that what the […]