Turkey seeks economic stability
by Neville Teller Turkey’s economy is in a bad way. In June the budget deficit, seven times higher than a year earlier, reached 219.6 billion lira…
Indonesia pushes a civilizational approach to countering polarisation.
An Indonesian push for a Southeast Asian return to values rooted in an ancient Indo civilisation amounts to an innovative attempt to manage polarisation. Exploiting its rotating chairmanship of the…
Is Unity between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority possible?
by Neville Teller In Ankara on July 26 Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hosted Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a “behind closed doors”…
Saudi soccer: A game of geopolitics and religion, not just sports
By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. For the past 12 years, I have maintained free distribution as a…
The UAE: The Middle East’s Teflon Nation
By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. For the past 12 years, I have maintained free distribution as a…
Can the Palestinian Authority survive?
by Neville Teller The Palestinian Authority (PA) is in a parlous state. Its standing with the Palestinian population has sunk to new low levels, while it has lost authority…
A Saudi Pastime: Poking the United States in the eye.
By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. For the past 12 years, I have maintained free distribution as a…
Biden’s Iranian non-deal
by Neville Teller US President Joe Biden served as vice-president throughout the presidency of Barack Obama. Sometimes too little significance is given to Biden’s total identification with the major policy…
Bin Salman toys with religious reform
By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. For the past 12 years, I have maintained free distribution as a…
Indian pundits rally in support of Europe’s anti-migrant sentiment.
By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. For the past 12 years, I have maintained free distribution as a…