Author

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.

All Articles

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

December 28, 2020 Is reciting Quran in Turkish an act of liberticide?

December 21, 2020 Ankara's foreign policy rationale

December 14, 2020 Turkey: Too big to fail?

December 07, 2020 On why a deal with SDF is a red herring

November 30, 2020 Maradona's audacity of hope

November 23, 2020 Words and deeds

November 16, 2020 What a wonderful world

November 10, 2020 The president's hurt locker

November 02, 2020 A final curtain for the PKK?

October 26, 2020 Erdoğan vs. Macron: Round two

October 19, 2020 Groundhog days

October 12, 2020 Did Ankara just reach the ropes, finally?

October 05, 2020 A tale of two secular republics

September 29, 2020 Turkey needs a political bailout from the West

September 21, 2020 Bold is better than ambitious

September 14, 2020 On the Erdoğan-Macron spat

September 07, 2020 Nechirvan Barzani's visit to Ankara

August 31, 2020 Gegenpressing in diplomacy?

August 24, 2020 Black Sea gas find farce