![Mustafa Asaba, a regional leader of Crimean Tatars, sits in the living room of a friend's home in Belogorsk near the Crimean capital of Simferopol March 17, 2014. Among the voices drowned out by victory celebrations across Crimea as it voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia were those of the Tatars, a minority group for whom the prospect of a return to Moscow rule brings fear and uncertainty. Picture taken March 17, 2014. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTR3HIWN](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/03/RTR3HIWN.jpg/RTR3HIWN.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=QyVhK2TK)
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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
![Mustafa Asaba, a regional leader of Crimean Tatars, sits in the living room of a friend's home in Belogorsk near the Crimean capital of Simferopol March 17, 2014. Among the voices drowned out by victory celebrations across Crimea as it voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia were those of the Tatars, a minority group for whom the prospect of a return to Moscow rule brings fear and uncertainty. Picture taken March 17, 2014. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY) - RTR3HIWN](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/03/RTR3HIWN.jpg/RTR3HIWN.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=QyVhK2TK)
![Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan addresses the crowd during an opening ceremony of a new metro line in Ankara March 13, 2014. A defiant Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, already battling a damaging corruption scandal weeks ahead of elections, cast the latest unrest as part of a plot against the state. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3GWD4](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/03/RTR3GWD4.jpg/RTR3GWD4.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=VGJvXc0U)
![A man mourns near the body of his brother, wrapped in a blanket, who was among those killed during Sunday night's suicide bomb attack at a popular coffee shop in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 170 km (106 miles) north of Baghdad, July 17, 2006. The attack killed 21 people, mostly elderly men. REUTERS/Slahaldeen Rasheed (IRAQ) - RTR1FKIO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/RTR1FKIO.jpg/RTR1FKIO.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=OH9EjfxL)
![Turkish Alawite women pray in a tomb, a holy site to the Alawite community, in the Samandag district of Hatay province, close to the border with Syria, July 27, 2012. An influx of Syrians fleeing President Bashar al-Assad's military onslaught is stoking tension in the area of Turkey known for religious tolerance and setting Turks who share the Syrian leader's creed against their own government. In the Turkish frontier province of Hatay, home to the Antioch of the Bible and a mix of confessional groups rare](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/RTR39FE9.jpg/RTR39FE9.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=Zlk_GeJ7)
![Displaced Somalis queue for food at a centre run by a Turkish aid agency in the Howlwadaag district of southern Mogadishu, January 22, 2012. From Turkey to Brazil, India to Saudi Arabia, a growing number of non-Western donors are bringing fresh funds, a different mindset and their own experience of managing natural disasters to the global humanitarian aid scene. Picture taken January 22, 2012. To match Feature DISASTERS-NEWDONORS/ REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY) - RTR2WVRE](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/RTR2WVRE.jpg/RTR2WVRE.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=JqrwmcpE)
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![Başbakan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, İran Cumhurbaşkanı Hasan Ruhani ile görüştü. Tahran'da resmi temaslarını sürdüren Başbakan Erdoğan, Sadabad Sarayı'nda gerçekleştirilen öğle yemeğinde, İran Cumhurbaşkanı Ruhani ile bir araya geldi. Başbakan Erdoğan, İran Cumhurbaşkanı Ruhani ile iki ülke arasında çeşitli alanlarda ikili işbirliği anlaşmaları imzaladı. (Kayhan Özer - Anadolu Ajansı)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/02/Erdogan-Rouhani-Tehran-Turkish-Ministry-of-Foreign-Affairs-photo.jpg/Erdogan-Rouhani-Tehran-Turkish-Ministry-of-Foreign-Affairs-photo.jpg?h=033d98c0&itok=oXLDCUsN)
![Turkish riot police stand guard at the Oncupinar border crossing to stop demonstrators in the Turkish-Syrian border town of Kilis, Gaziantep province, January 12, 2012. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2W6OR](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/01/RTR2W6OR.jpg/RTR2W6OR.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=D5Qt4yKA)
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![Turkey's historical Maiden's Tower is seen on the Bosphorus with the city's skyscrapers in the background, in Istanbul August 28, 2013. Along the picturesque Bosphorus Straits dividing Europe and Asia, Istanbul is undergoing a transformation which should fill Turkey with confidence in its bid to become the first Muslim country to stage the Olympics in 2020. Overlooking the waterway, mechanical diggers are tearing down Besiktas' Inonu Stadium to make way for a state-of-the-art facility earmarked to stage rug](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/01/RTX133RW.jpg/RTX133RW.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=Ez8vB84g)
![Turkish soldiers with armoured vehicles guard the entrance of Apaydin refugee camp in Hatay province, on the Turkish-Syrian border, May 12, 2013. Turkey accused a group loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday of carrying out car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turkish border town of Reyhanli and said the risk of unrest spreading to Syria's neighbours was increasing. Syrian Information Minister Omran Zubi denied any Syrian involvement and rejected what he called "unfounded accusations". REUTE](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/01/RTXZJV4.jpg/RTXZJV4.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=E2oLSIre)
![Kurdish people chant slogans during a march on December 28, 2013 in Istanbul marking the second anniversary of the December 28, 2011 killing of 34 Turkish-Kurdish civilians working as smugglers at the Turkey-Iraq border in a botched raid by Turkish military jets, known as the Roboski strike, that mistook the group for Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants. AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/12/459582919.jpg/459582919.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=GlQxFluL)