Yavuz Baydar
Yavuz Baydar is a senior Turkish columnist, and news analyst. A founding member of the Platform for Independent Journalism (P24) in Istanbul, he has been reporting on Turkey and monitoring media issues since 1980. A European Press Prize Laureate in 2014, he is also the winner of Germany's 'Journalistenpreis' in 2018.
2020-03-23
COVID-19 may turn out to be a codename for testing Erdogan’s regime to the…
2020-02-19
By constantly using the refugee flow argument, Erdogan keeps a frightened…
2020-02-10
With a Trump victory in the November elections on the horizon, the more…
2020-01-20
For Erdogan, the agenda is to expand on a blend of Islamism and radical…
2020-01-02
Everything Ankara does indicates it is planning to go all the way and all alone…
2019-12-10
Erdogan arguably will go out of his way to see Trump win a second term.
2019-12-03
Having survived political defeat in the local elections some seven months ago,…
2019-11-12
Keeping close to a globally resented strongman places Trump in an awkward…
2019-10-21
Turkey’s domestic Kurdish issue will not cease to bleed, feeding further an…
2019-10-16
Everything points to the fact that the Syrian saga will continue to be a…
2019-09-18
Seemingly decisive, without blinking, Erdogan continues with what he knows best…
2019-09-04
Officers are unhappy that their views on Syria, especially on the Turkish…
2019-08-27
The removal of mayors, who were elected with more than 53% of the vote, is a…
2019-07-30
Erdogan, who is a high-stakes gambler, has seen through the EU moves that the…
2019-07-17
As the first shipments of the sophisticated Russian S-400 surface-to-air…