Turkey’s Economy Minister on a Decade of Growth

Ankara, Asharq Al-Awsat—The relationship between Turkey and the European Union has been fiercely contested for 60 years, with some members arguing that Turkey is too poor and not “European” enough to fit in. While once Turkey was seen as the junior partner, the party that was obliged to make all the concessions and changes required by the existing members in order to join the club, the Eurozone crisis and Turkey’s robust economic performance has leveled the playing field in many resp...

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Opinion: Last Stop for the Arab Revolutionary Train

No matter how desperately advocates of the Arab revolutions strive to justify the deplorable conditions in the states where these uprisings erupted, there is an unmistakable sense of frustration caused by their end results. This sense prevails even among some of the revolutionary zealots, who are eager to see these revolutions being transmitted to other states. Resorting to conspiracy theories to justify the revolutions' failure is useless, as all four states whose regimes or presidents were to...

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