With its ups and downs, it has been one year since Arab Spring started. When a Tunisian postgraduate peddler Muhammed Bouazizi burned himself in order to protest the fact that police officers had treated him bad on 17th December 2010, he pulled the pin on the Arab world that was ready to blow up because of dictatorship for many years and misgovernments that were overwhelmed by corruption and were ...

Prisoner swap treaty which had been waited for 5 years by both Palestinian and Israeli side took place on recent weeks. Under framework of treaty 477 Palestinian prisoners released as first wave of 1077 and Shalit returned home. Second phase of treaty is supposed to be in two months. By that deal Netanyahu ensured Gilad Shalit’s returning back to home, HAMAS gained a historical achievement by ensu...

Pakistan – Country Profile

The Institute of Strategic Thinking (SDE) published“ For a Fully Democratic Turkey Not Constrained by Guardianship / New Constitution Based on Human Dignity” report. This report was originally published in May 2011and translated to English by Nasuh Uslu.

India – Country Profile

Cairo hosts conference on democratic developments in Turkey and Egypt... A conference titled “Transition to democracy and constitutional change in Egypt and Turkey” was held in Egypt's capital on Oct. 23 to analyze Turkey's process of democratization and compare it with the recent attempts at political reform in the Arab world.

Syrian Arab Republic – Country Profile