Alper Ali Riza

There are rights recognised as enforceable human rights and there are rights that are informal and unenforceable. The right to die which is no longer a crime in many countries ...

Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election fair and square. His opponent, Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris, graciously conceded defeat by first congratulating him privately and then conceding defeat publicly ...

In democracies people get the leaders they deserve Standards in public life have reached rock bottom in the US and UK. A convicted felon is poised to win the US ...

Antonio Guterres is probably the best UN secretary-general since Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden who was killed in an air crash trying to bring peace to the Congo. Guterres’ attendance ...

Last week the English Football Association (FA) threw caution to the wind and appointed a German to manage the English national team. He is Thomas Tuchel, a professional football manager ...

Recent legal opinion on citizenship at EU court should be ignored It seems selling ‘golden passports’ was lawful after all. On October 4, 2024 Anthony Collins, an Advocate General in the EU, ...

Britain will hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while retaining delegated sovereignty over Diego Garcia, a joint British American military base Britain withheld ...

There is a scandal in the making in UK in the ‘glasses for passes’ affair now in its second week which does not look as though it will go away ...

In a unanimous and trenchant judgment, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus sitting as a discrete Council in an application to dismiss the auditor-general for misconduct decided on Wednesday that ...

Before saying anything about the Great Debate in the US last week between the best-looking old man Donald Trump and the best-looking fifty-something woman, a few words about the way ...

But families still waiting for justice seven years later Judge-led inquiries that investigate events that cause serious loss of life are part of the procedural aspect of the right to ...

Like the Titanic the super yacht Bayesian that sank off the coast of Sicily in a freak weather event on August 19 was virtually unsinkable. But it sank and seven passengers ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic Party’s official candidate for president. In her acceptance speech, she introduced herself as if she were a complete unknown even though ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 the American historian Francis Fukuyama called it the end of history. Liberal democracy had triumphed as the ideal system of government having seen off ...

It is summer riot season in England and Northern Ireland and if you believe what Elon Musk posts on X, the UK is in civil war mode. Just because there ...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not often go along with the geopolitical concerns of the US and Europe. He belongs to the generation of Turkish politicians whose outlook is ...

The standing ovation Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received from a joint session of the US Congress last week was in stark contrast to the unqualified condemnation of Israel by ...

President Biden should resign in favour of women candidates Where were you when an all American boy from Pennsylvania attempted to assassinate former US president and candidate for president Donald ...

Reading between the lines of UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s appeal to Cypriots to get involvedover the heads of their leaders, was an admission that common ground eluded her ...

Politics is a rough old trade and never rougher than when the electorate evicts the British prime minister from his official residence at 10 Downing Street. The moment the leader of ...

Napoleon Bonaparte famously called Britain a nation of shopkeepers. Britain seemed more like a nation of gamblers after the betting scandal last week. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gambled on ...

The Refugee Convention was intended as a temporary expedient and not as a vehicle for permanent settlement elsewhere Like it or not the tilt to the extreme right in elections ...

The problems the auditor-general is facing reminded me of a conversation I had a few years ago with the late Rustem Tatar Cyprus’ first auditor-general 1960-63, and father of the ...

President Joe Biden was in Normandy in France this week for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6 in which he gave a speech that drew a parallel ...