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IMF

International Efforts Toward More Resilient Conventional and Islamic Banking Sectors: Implementation Challenges

January 21, 2020
by Mehmet Sıddık Yurtçiçek and Mehmet Şefik Yurtçiçek, published on
It examines, from a legal perspective, the progress made in implementing the financial regulatory reforms adopted since the global financial crisis and highlights the role of the IMF in advancing these reforms and charting the course for a future reform agenda, including the development of a coherent international policy framework for resolution and resolution planning.
American Thinker

Can the Arab world ever fix its politics?

June 16, 2019
by Haşim Tekineş, published on 16 June 2019
With its endless wars, crises, massacres, and turmoil, the Middle East is seen as hopeless geography today. It was much better than this throughout the 20th century, but it had never been so hopeless, exhausted, and desperate. There is no more new ideas, projects, or emotions that motivate and energize Arab street around itself.
Washington Examiner

A new phase in Turkey's crackdown: Torturing diplomats

June 3, 2019
by Bahadır Gülle, published on June 3, 2019
Turkey’s foreign ministry, where I used to work, was famous for its strict hierarchy. The ministry prided itself with its two-centuries-old tradition and impeccable reputation. But after the coup attempt in 2016, extensive purges have created an irreplaceable shortage of qualified cadres in almost all state institutions in Turkey, including the foreign ministry. More than one-third of the career diplomats were labeled terrorists and expelled.
Berkeley Journal of International Law

Erdogan’s Long Arm into International Organizations: The Gülen Movement a Proscribed Organization

April 14, 2019
by Yasir Gökçe, published on 14 April 2019
The Pakistani Supreme Court recently declared a group running secular educational institutions in Pakistan a terrorist organization and ordered the educational institutions be handed over to the Maarif Foundation, an apparatus of the Erdogan regime which is purportedly responsible for providing Turkish-style education around the world.
Americas Quarterly

How Turkey’s Lifeline to Maduro May Fall Apart

March 7, 2019
by İmdat Öner, published on 7 March 2019
The close relationship with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan offers Maduro a much-needed lifeline that might help his regime breathe under increasing isolation and sanctions.
War on the Rocks

IN VENEZUELA, AN ISOLATED MADURO SEARCHES FOR ALLIES ACROSS THE GLOBE

January 30, 2019
Co-authored by İmdat Öner, published on 30 January 2019
Last week, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, declared himself the country’s interim president in accordance with Venezuela’s constitutional provisions. Shortly after, the Trump administration swiftly proclaimed its support for Guaidó.