Author
Aydın Selcen

Aydın Selcen

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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.

All Articles
August 17, 2020 East Med: the crisis that is not
August 10, 2020 The horrifying spectre of a SDF-US oil deal
August 03, 2020 Tales of modernization and secularism
July 27, 2020 Sword at hand re-conquering Hagia Sophia alla Turca
July 20, 2020 What is the product?
July 13, 2020 Diplomacy as improvised stand-up comedy
July 06, 2020 Watching Hong Kong, thinking Turkey
June 29, 2020 Winning it on the cheap - for today
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