Politics

Legitimacy

Can Baydarol I previously wrote an article about the remarks made by US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Representative for Syria Barrack regarding President Erdoğan, which were along the lines…

UN report: World heading for 2.8°C warming

A new UN report reviews the gap between countries’ climate commitments and global emissions targets. Next week, countries’ representatives, nonprofit organisations, academics, and more will gather for COP30 in Belem,…

Casus belli

Can Baydarol Signs of discord between Bahçeli and Erdoğan over the Cyprus formula appear to have subsided for now, following Erdoğan’s recent statement that he favours two separate states rather…

We are heading for world leadership with stubborn inflation settling at 33% for four months

Levent Gürses In October, inflation rose by 2.55 per cent, while annual inflation stood at 32.87 per cent, falling well short of targets. Inflation appears to have stubbornly settled in…

Could Luddism from two centuries ago be this era’s Internationalism?

Osman Şenkul The regions of Wales, Scotland and Sussex in England are known as areas where industrialisation spread rapidly in the late 18th century and the first half of the…

Internationalism or extinction

Noam Chomsky We are meeting at a remarkable moment, a moment that is, in fact, unique in human history, a moment both ominous in portent and bright with hopes for…

Cryptonymous 82

Can Baydarol Following the resignation of Rauf Denktaş, the founding President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), in 2005, all subsequent presidential elections were won by candidates supported…

It is no longer the turn of those with low and fixed incomes to make sacrifices

Levent Gürses Poverty is increasing at an incredible rate. Inflation, which has persisted for years and cannot be brought below 30%, is the sole cause of this impoverishment… The state…

Ageing as equals – Distributive justice in retirement pensions

Osman Şenkul Dr Manuel Sá Valente from the University of Minho in Portugal, under the supervision of Axel Gosseries, Bruno Verbeek, Walter Lesch, Serena Olsaretti, Anca Gheaus, and Vincent Vandenberghe,…

Can courts safeguard fairness in an AI age?

J. Doyne Farmer In the criminal justice system, decisions about when and how long to detain individuals have historically been made by others, such as judges and parole boards. However,…