Borzou Daragahi

The country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his two decades in power

President Erdogan is seeking to extend his two decades in power

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned Turkey into a one-man show across his time in power. So, asks Borzou Daragahi, what does that mean for the next five years?

Turkey is holding out over giving Sweden membership, while any pathway for Kyiv to join the alliance is still to be mapped out, writes Borzou Daragahi. And the issue of what to do about China – another major player in the Ukraine crisis – is a long-term concern

The best chance for a favourable outcome for Russia in the Ukraine war is for its leader to resign and allow a freely elected government to make decisions, writes Borzou Daragahi

After Britain’s deal with France to curb cross-Channel boats, EU nations are paying authoritarian countries such as Turkey and Tunisia to try to stop migrants taking to the water, writes Borzou Daragahi

From Egypt to Iran, from the rise of strongmen to state-backed repression, it has become punishingly hard to report on the world as we find it, writes Borzou Daraghi after over two decades in the field

Allowing space travel to become the doman of the sci-fi obsessed private industry will pave the way for the exact dystopias that science fiction has taught us to avoid, writes Borzou Daragahi

Turkish President Erdogan’s foreign policy moves almost always have a domestic politics angle. His pivot back to the West is no exception.

The recent congressional hearings into the existence of extraterrestrial life raised more questions than answers, writes Borzou Daragahi