The British Guardian newspaper exposed in its Dec. 21, 2018 issue the latest financial scandal involving the daughters of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev. Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva sought to purchase two luxury Knightsbridge apartments...
Throughout this past year, I have collected several examples of eccentric reports or rules imposed on Turkish society. Naturally, millions of liberal and civilized Turks are unhappy with these behind the times regulations, but...
Armenia’s Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced last week that his government is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey, however, without any preconditions. This announcement came as a surprise to most Armenians who...
Everyone knows that Ambassadors have to follow the foreign policy guidelines of their governments and cannot make their own decisions. Yet it is strange that successive U.S. Ambassadors are not allowed to call the...
Pres. Donald Trump nominated on Sept. 4, 2018, career Foreign Service Officer Earle Litzenberger to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan replacing Amb. Robert Cekuta who left Baku nine months ago. A month before...
The Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has made attracting overseas investors the priority of his new government. So far, it is too early to determine whether foreign investors are interested in doing...
Ferhat Encu, a Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament from the Sirnak province of Turkey, delivered a while back extremely critical remarks about Turks and Turkey on the floor of the Parliament in Ankara....
The midterm elections held on November 6, 2018, will significantly restrain Pres. Trump’s rule of the United States as a dictatorship. In the first two years of his presidency, Trump often abused his powers...
John Bolton, the National Security Adviser of Pres. Trump, visited Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in October, conveying the White House position on regional and international issues. Bolton is known as a hawk on foreign policy and...
The heinous murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been exploited by leaders of several countries for their selfish political and economic gains, ignoring the vile nature of the crime. The main participants...
