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David Lepeska

David Lepeska

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David Lepeska is a global affairs contributor for The National. An award-winning journalist who previously served as a foreign correspondent for the paper, he has contributed to The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and other outlets, written a memoir about his time in Kashmir, and worked at the UN and the World Bank. Today he is Publisher/Editor at online travel magazine Escape Artist
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People gather to celebrate the opposition takeover of Damascus, following the Friday prayers, at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria earlier this month. EPA
In 2025, the world should prepare to enter uncharted territory

So much has been upended in 2024 that it is difficult to forecast how the new year will be

December 31, 2024
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally near the White House in Washington earlier this year. AFP
As an American, the tragedy of Gaza is not lost on me

As this conflict began, I found myself taking a position that some would describe as neutral, and others might call wishy-washy

October 30, 2024
A man in Tucson, Arizona carries an AI-generated image of Donald Trump carrying cats away from Haitian immigrants, a reference to falsehoods spread about Springfield, Ohio. AFP
'Freedom' and the West's toxic migration debates

Empty rhetoric from politicians undermines rights as well as solutions

September 25, 2024
Turkish soldiers walk in a column in Cyprus on September 18, 1974. Cyprus marks a half-century of division this summer. AFP
How Turkey’s defence industry has gone from strength to strength

Nato’s second-largest military now has the domestic backing to stand tall

July 19, 2024
A year after taking office, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan seems to have shed his usual reserve for a bolder stance. Reuters
We may be witnessing the emergence of Hakan Fidan’s Turkey

Ankara's top diplomat is leaving his stamp on the world stage. Could he lead the country one day?

July 09, 2024
A woman takes a selfie with popular YouTuber and TikToker Fidias Panayiotou in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Tuesday. AP
Cyprus’s YouTube prankster could change EU politics

Europeans tired of career politicians have elected several new faces, like Fidias Panayiotou, to Parliament

June 18, 2024
A Ukrainian soldier on duty in the Donetsk region. Kyiv has lowered the draft age, launched a recruitment campaign and passed a mobilisation law. EPA
Ukraine works to alter the maths in the ‘numbers game’ with Russia

Zelenskyy's mobilisation drive has been a partial success, even though, for many, it may have gone too far

June 11, 2024
People gather with the Kurdish flag during a Syrian Kurdish celebration marking Nowruz in the town of Qahtaniyah. AFP
Does Syrian Kurdish democracy pose a threat to Turkey?

Ankara sees upcoming elections as solidifying a state, which, in its view, would pose a clear threat

June 04, 2024
Marion Marechal, leader of the French far-right party Reconquete, during a tribute ceremony to Joan of Arc in Domremy-la-Pucelle this month. AFP
Will Muslim-led parties succeed in pushing back against Europe’s far right?

For now the continent is sure to embrace a fortress mentality, but the pendulum will swing back at some point

May 28, 2024
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after a joint news conference in Ankara, Turkey. AP
Could Turkey’s conservative turn roil the suddenly calm Aegean?

Ankara and Athens have found a way to compartmentalise their chequered relationship, if this week’s summit is any indication

May 15, 2024
Demonstrators gather at Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul last week during a protest march in solidarity with Palestinians. Reuters
Pariah or pioneer? Turkey has taken a bold stand against Israel’s war in Gaza

The invasion of Rafah could see other countries follow Ankara's lead

May 07, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally in solidarity with Gazans in Istanbul last October. Reuters
With Middle East mediation, Turkey may have a chance to make history

Getting there might require strategic brilliance and dogged commitment to solving one of the world’s knottiest conundrums

April 23, 2024
Israeli forces approach one of six ships bound for Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, 2010. Reuters
Turkey to the rescue, or is the new Gaza flotilla a provocation?

Rather than saving Palestinian lives, the maritime aid convoy could be set for another confrontation at sea with Israeli forces

April 15, 2024
A woman walks in front of a local election campaign poster of incumbent mayor of Istanbul and Istanbul mayoral candidate Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), in Istanbul, Turkey, 23 March 2024. The local elections in Turkey are scheduled for 31 March 2024. EPA / ERDEM SAHIN
Has a new political era dawned in Turkey?

It is possible. But even as Erdogan's AKP has lost local elections, it's never lost a nationwide vote

April 01, 2024
Imamoglu will compete against AKP candidate Murat Kurum in the March 31 municipal election. Reuters
The rise and possible fall of Istanbul's superstar Mayor Imamoglu

March's municipal elections may well determine the future of one of Turkey's most promising opposition politicians

March 19, 2024

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