Author

Aydın Selcen
aselcen@gazeteduvar.com.trWho is Aydın Selcen?
Born in Istanbul in 1969, Aydın Selcen graduated from Saint Joseph High School and the International Relations Department of Marmara University. Selcen has taken up several positions at the Foreign Ministry between 1992 and 2013, his latest post being the Erbil Consul General of Turkey between 2010 and 2013. Upon his return to Ankara, he resigned from the civil service and served as a political advisor at the General Energy oil company for one and a half years. Since 2015, he has been writing independently, with a focus on Iraqi and Syrian issues. Selcen is a member of the Galatasaray Football Club congress.
All Articles
January 18, 2021
Revision, reset, reform, revolution etc.
January 11, 2021
Ankara's reaction to the siege of the Capitol
January 04, 2021
Desperados and the mechanism
December 28, 2020
Is reciting Quran in Turkish an act of liberticide?
December 21, 2020
Ankara's foreign policy rationale
December 14, 2020
Turkey: Too big to fail?
December 07, 2020
On why a deal with SDF is a red herring
November 30, 2020
Maradona's audacity of hope
November 23, 2020
Words and deeds
November 16, 2020
What a wonderful world
November 10, 2020
The president's hurt locker
November 02, 2020
A final curtain for the PKK?
October 26, 2020
Erdoğan vs. Macron: Round two
October 19, 2020
Groundhog days
October 12, 2020
Did Ankara just reach the ropes, finally?
October 05, 2020
A tale of two secular republics
September 29, 2020
Turkey needs a political bailout from the West
September 21, 2020
Bold is better than ambitious
September 14, 2020
On the Erdoğan-Macron spat
September 07, 2020
Nechirvan Barzani's visit to Ankara
August 31, 2020
Gegenpressing in diplomacy?
August 24, 2020
Black Sea gas find farce
August 17, 2020
East Med: the crisis that is not
August 10, 2020
The horrifying spectre of a SDF-US oil deal
August 03, 2020
Tales of modernization and secularism
July 27, 2020
Sword at hand re-conquering Hagia Sophia alla Turca
July 20, 2020
What is the product?
July 13, 2020
Diplomacy as improvised stand-up comedy
July 06, 2020
Watching Hong Kong, thinking Turkey
June 29, 2020
Winning it on the cheap - for today