The crisis caused by the supply of advanced S-400 air defence system from Russia is a reflection of concerns beyond borders, with respect to Turkey’s pursuit of national technology.

For a child to have born in Turkey in mid-1950s, the country represented a magical identity in 1960s…  

It was then, we first learned about an island called CYPRUS, as our parents showed us its location on the maps appearing in the front pages of dailies. For a generation at the age of elementary school, it was fascinating to witness torchlight processions organised in protest of atrocities in Cyprus at the hands of Greek Cypriots. We were mesmerised when our parents chanted “Army to Cyprus”…