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Aydın Selcen

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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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October 11, 2021 Ankara's hedgehogs too know only one big thing

October 04, 2021 In the wake of Sochi the foreign policy in tatters

September 27, 2021 Erdoğan's struggle against odds

September 20, 2021 Turkey as both problem and solution

September 13, 2021 The new cold war

September 06, 2021 Explaining Erdoğan's interest in Afghanistan

August 30, 2021 The real cold war is with Islamism

August 23, 2021 What would Nathan Muir do?

August 16, 2021 Ankara's Kabul Airport plan finally shelved

August 09, 2021 Will Erdoğan pay a political price for the forest fires?

August 02, 2021 Putting out fires where arson is policy

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