Author
Aydın Selcen

Aydın Selcen

aselcen@gazeteduvar.com.tr

Who 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.

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July 26, 2021 Erdoğan's Cyprus bet backfires - or maybe not
July 19, 2021 The utter failure of nation building
July 12, 2021 Biji serok Erdoğan!
July 05, 2021 Opression, resistance and anarchic foreign policy
June 28, 2021 Erdoğan shields his regime
June 21, 2021 First casualty of Erdoğan-Biden bilateral
June 14, 2021 S-400 and YPG in mutual parentheses?
June 07, 2021 Deal angles of the upcoming Erdoğan-Biden meeting
May 31, 2021 Erdoğan's difficult balancing act
May 24, 2021 Regime change and foreign policy
May 17, 2021 An odd road companion
May 10, 2021 Of pride and prejudice - If I may
May 03, 2021 Turkish foreign policy: Act III
April 26, 2021 And the phone rings at last
April 19, 2021 A rough ride and tough choices for Ankara
April 12, 2021 Ursula standing
April 05, 2021 In the crosshairs of the three global fault lines
March 29, 2021 US must help Turkey, to help itself out
March 22, 2021 Nero & Caligula: Two in one
March 15, 2021 Syria is out but Turkey stays in
March 08, 2021 When the times get so absurd, the rational should get going
March 01, 2021 France is not the nemesis, neither is Turkey
February 22, 2021 Why Turkey's war on terror is misunderstood
February 15, 2021 Reset?
February 08, 2021 Cienfuegos in the Middle East
February 01, 2021 A multidimensional and multinational Kurdish end game
January 25, 2021 "Danse Macabre": The new era in Turkey, EU and US relations
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