This study seeks to explain Turkey’s policies towards Iraq and Northern Syria in the context of regional geopolitical competition. The paper first explains structure competitive system Middle East by taking into consideration role impact Turkey, Iran Saudi Arabia. Secondly, focusing on strategic goals actors, contextualizes logic rationality behind military political engagements Iraq. Finally, ...

Oytun Orhan has been working as a researcher at ORSAM since 2009. Conducting research basically on Syria and Lebanon, Orhan has also carried out studies about Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq and Turkey’s Middle East policy. Having graduated from the department of International Relations, Gazi University, Orhan completed his master’s degree at the department of International Relations, Hacett...

Examining the situations of Syria, Iraq and Ukraine, this article demonstrates how individuals living outside control de jure government struggle to access birth registration civil status documentation in times non-international armed conflict. Evaluating right legal identity is protected international law, highlights need for be better conflict, so that its conferral denial not used as a weapo...

As Syria prepares to enter its seventh year of war, the tide seems to have turned in favour of the Assad regime. Government forces over-ran Aleppo at the end of 2016, assisted by air support from Russia. President Bashar al-Assad has now regained control of all the major population centres in the country, including the four largest cities. As The Lancet Infectious Diseases went to press, a ceas...