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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June 22, 2020 Erdoğan's unbundling of the system
June 15, 2020 How much? How long? What for?
June 08, 2020 On that June 7, five years ago we lost to win
June 01, 2020 George Floyd: A looking glass mirror
May 25, 2020 Turks and Kurds as 'cowboys vs. natives'
May 18, 2020 Almost new horizons in Turkey-US relations
May 11, 2020 How would you like your PKK?
May 04, 2020 Eleftheros: Free at last
April 27, 2020 Turkey's foreign policy rationale
April 20, 2020 Opposition as a virus
April 13, 2020 Anatomy of Turkey's COVID-19 curfew
April 06, 2020 A local COVID-19 political lexicon
March 30, 2020 Hasty burials during pandemic days
March 23, 2020 Turkey's three-way COVID-19 bet
March 16, 2020 A la guerre, comme a la guerre*
March 08, 2020 Moscow as the peacemaker
March 02, 2020 Going all-in in Idlib
February 25, 2020 Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits…
February 17, 2020 My way or the M4-M5 highways
February 10, 2020 A ship called Bana
February 03, 2020 Jerusalem as Turkey's "red line"
January 28, 2020 Search for Turkey's soul
January 19, 2020 A rogues gallery meet in Berlin
January 13, 2020 Is change in the air for Ankara?
January 06, 2020 Soleimani out: What is next?
December 30, 2019 The Libyan bamboozle
December 23, 2019 Genius Loci
December 16, 2019 Turkish foreign policy: assertive or foolhardy?
December 09, 2019 Is Washington (too) brain-dead?
December 01, 2019 Sorry, I missed your point Mr. Loach