Author

Aydın Selcen

aselcen@gazeteduvar.com.tr

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.

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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