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Sinem Cengiz

Sinem Cengiz

Sinem Cengiz is a Turkish political analyst based in Athens. Born and lived in Kuwait, Cengiz focuses mainly on issues regarding Middle East and Turkey’s relations with the region. She was also the former diplomatic correspondent for Today’s Zaman newspaper, English daily in Turkey. She is currently researching on Turkish-Saudi relations to complete her MA in International Relations. She can be found on Twitter: @SinemCngz"

A tangible remedy to Iraq’s ISIS problem

Iraq’s neighbors should seek ways to prevent groups like ISIS to determine the fate of the region...

 Turkey and the GCC: language barrier hampers shared interests

In 2008, Turkey became the first country to have a mechanism of strategic dialogue with the Gulf Cooperation Council ...

 Why Arabs are confused on Turkey’s ethnic minorities

Arab intellectuals, who strive to understand the Alevi issue, feels that Turkey will be facing a serious challenge on the matter...

 Turkey’s ‘Mideast experts’ struggle to decode region

Rather than overcoming the language and field research problems, some experts prefer to protect their respective positions in the institutions they work for...

 Turkish-Kuwaiti ties: riding out the storm

Turkish President Abdullah Gul paid a three-day official visit to Kuwait, despite tensions with other GCC countries...

 Elections over, time to reset Turkish foreign policy

Turkey should not follow a sectarian policy in Syria and Iraq and an ideological policy in Egypt...

 What went wrong with Turkey’s Mideast policy?

What went wrong with Turkey’s Middle East policy which turned it from a country admired by the regional states to the odd man out in the region?...

 The Arab world has lost hope in Turkey

Erdogan was noticeably absent from the Jeddah Economic Forum last week, a conference in which he is typically a popular speaker...