All Policy Analysis by Soner Cagaptay

"Protest technology" has changed the relationship between authoritarian regimes and their citizens, and there is no going back.

Washington needs to devise a well-planned, delicate intervention in Syria: one supported by Russia, executed by Turks and Arabs, and remotely backed by the United States and its European allies.

Humanitarian safe havens can protect vulnerable civilians only if backed up with sufficient power.

The question now in Syria is not if al-Assad will fall, but how.

After a decade of discord with the United States, Turkey's ties with Washington improved significantly during 2011.

The Russian refusal thus far to support international action against al-Assad is based solely on Russia's fear of losing access to the port of Tartus.

Turkey, which has experienced phenomenal economic growth over the past decade, no longer feels content to subsume itself under Europe.

Turkish Kurds may soon go from being the "luckiest Kurds" in the Middle East to nearly the most politically underprivileged.