![A security camera overlooks a man as he walks down a street in London November 2, 2006. Britain is becoming a surveillance society where individuals are filmed hundreds of times a day by CCTV and where companies "data mine" to build up profiles on customers, the Information Commissioner warned on Thursday. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN) - RTR1IXR5](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/03/RTR1IXR5.jpg/RTR1IXR5.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=LEnt0GJh)
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In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics
Al Monitor-Türkiye’nin Nabzı bölümünün yazarlarındandır. Farklı gazetelerde çalıştıktan sonra uzun süre Radikal gazetesinde köşe yazarlığı yaptı. Ajans Kafkas’ın kurucu editörüydü. IMC TV’de dış politika programı ‘SINIRSIZ’ın daimi yorumcusuydu. Türk dış politikası, Kafkasya, Orta Doğu ve Avrupa Birliği konularında uzmanlaşmıştır. “Suriye: Yıkıl Git, Diren Kal”, “Rojava: Kürtlerin Zamanı” ve “Karanlık Çöktüğünde: IŞİD” adlı kitapların yazarıdır. Twitter: @fehimtastekin
![A security camera overlooks a man as he walks down a street in London November 2, 2006. Britain is becoming a surveillance society where individuals are filmed hundreds of times a day by CCTV and where companies "data mine" to build up profiles on customers, the Information Commissioner warned on Thursday. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN) - RTR1IXR5](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/03/RTR1IXR5.jpg/RTR1IXR5.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=LEnt0GJh)
![Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (L) meets with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara March 17, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS) - RTR2K0M9](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/03/RTR2K0M9.jpg/RTR2K0M9.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=YJiUOhvC)
![People walk past shops at a bazaar in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri February 13, 2015. President Tayyip Erdogan's tirades against the central bank may be stoking turmoil in Turkish financial markets, but they are winning praise from a class of industrialists who have thrived over the past decade and see him as a pillar of their success. Picture taken February 13, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS) - RTR4RF73](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/RTR4RF73.jpg/RTR4RF73.jpg?h=416daf64&itok=GMVeY7Jk)
![A rebel fighter carries his weapon as he walks in front of a rainbow in Ratian village, north of Aleppo, after what the rebels said was an offensive against them by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad that attempted to advance in the village but failed to February 18, 2015. Battles in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo have killed at least 70 pro-government fighters and more than 80 insurgents after the army launched an offensive there, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. Picture taken Feb](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/02/RTR4Q8E6.jpg/RTR4Q8E6.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=HmD0baM2)
![A rebel fighter prepares cameras ahead of firing mortars towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the village of Tshalma near the Armenian Christian town of Kasab May 26, 2014. REUTERS/Alaa Khweled (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR3QYIQ](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/02/RTR3QYIQ.jpg/RTR3QYIQ.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=xW_6LK0c)
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![Supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood wave Turkish and Egyptian flags during a rally in protest against the recent violence in Egypt, outside of the Eminonu New mosque in Istanbul August 17, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX12P99](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/02/RTX12P99.jpg/RTX12P99.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=SRaFDlrv)
![Kurdish peshmerga fighters ride their vehicles along a road on Mount Sinjar December 22, 2014. On Sunday, Kurdish and Yazidi fighters battled to take the Sinjar back from Islamic State after breaking a months-long siege of the mountain above it. Seizing the town would restore the majority of territory Iraq's Kurds lost in Islamic State's surprise offensive in August. Picture taken December 22, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR4J2WC](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/02/RTR4J2WC.jpg/RTR4J2WC.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=2KYb7SNJ)
![Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan (L) receives a gift from Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (R) after addressing a joint news conference in Somalia's capital Mogadishu January 25, 2015. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan travelled to the Somali capital Mogadishu under heavy security on Sunday, making his second visit in four years to promise further investment in the country as it struggles to rebuild after two decades of conflict. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR4MTPA](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/01/RTR4MTPA.jpg/RTR4MTPA.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=XOa2Lch5)
![Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen is pictured at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania September 24, 2013. Born in Erzurum, eastern Turkey, Gulen built up his reputation as a Muslim preacher with intense sermons that often moved him to tears. From his base in Izmir, he toured Turkey stressing the need to embrace scientific progress, shun radicalism and build bridges to the West and other faiths. The first Gulen school opened in 1982. In the following decades, the movement became a spectacular success, s](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/01/RTX188UQ.jpg/RTX188UQ.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=m6LXjjXX)
![Kurdish people clash with Turkish police on December 29, 2014, at Cizre in Sirnak. Tensions ran high in the southeastern town of Cizre early on December 27 following armed clashes between members of the Patriotic Revolutionist Youth Movement (YDG-H), an affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Huda-Par, a Kurdish Sunni Islamist party. AFP PHOTO/ILYAS AKENGIN (Photo credit should read ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/01/460887126.jpg/460887126.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=MQ2P5WPc)
![An anti-government protester is detained by riot policemen during a demonstration in Ankara March 12, 2014. Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse a crowd of several thousand demonstrators in Ankara's central Kizilay square on Wednesday in a protest triggered by the death of a teenager wounded in street clashes last summer. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3GRAH](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/01/RTR3GRAH.jpg/RTR3GRAH.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=tMF_A2u5)