Selected Works

From the British Royal Family to the United Nations, the world sent money to Turkey after the February 2023 earthquakes. For decades before that, Turkey collected a dedicated earthquake levy from its citizens. Three years on, more than 360,000 people remain in temporary housing — and those who have received new homes are paying for them in instalments. We investigate why. More than 53,000 people died and over 107,000 were injured in two earthquakes that struck southeastern Tu

Once a penniless hitchhiker crossing Anatolia, Joschka Fischer returned to Turkey in 2023 as a keynote speaker at the İzmir Economic Congress. Germany's former foreign minister spoke to Independent Turkish about Turkey's place in the world, brain drain, the NATO crisis. Joschka Fischer first came to Turkey in 1990ss with nothing but a rucksack and a plan to hitchhike his way through the Middle East. He was a young anarchist who had sailed around Gibraltar on a passenger shi

Richard Falk, emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, assessed Turkey's rapprochement with Israel and the Gulf, the war in Ukraine, American unipolarity — and what he calls Washington's "Monroe Doctrine for the World." U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talk in Indonesia during the G20 Summit on November 15, 2022. © Getty Images Richard Falk - for