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The website, TurkeyAgenda  launched on January 10, 2014, has been initiated by a group of people from different political perspectives and social backgrounds in order to provide “local” perspectives on Turkey and the region. The mission and objective of this website is to reflect "what is really happening in the region". The articles are selected to help provide a deeper and more challenging approach to the myriad of problems in this complicated region. The website is not affiliated with any organization or political party; all the work to keep this site active is volunteer-based. All submissions and contributions to the site, reflections of personal opinions and comments are welcome (subject to compliance with the submission guidelines). The Turkey Agenda provides political analyses, essays, interviews, and covers current events in Turkey and the region, thus creating an indispensable source of accurate and reliable news and information.We are expecting the list members to contribute to the site with their invaluable analyses.TurkeyAgenda welcomes submissions from anyone interested in writing opinion articles for TurkeyAgenda on any subject. We are not only interested in Turkish politics. We are interested in everything that interests Turkey. For your op-ed to be considered by TurkeyAgenda for publication, please take note that all articles must be legal and free of spam. Your submissions must be original and exclusive to us. Most articles are around 600 to 900 words in length, but submission of any length will be considered.You can submit pieces by e-mail ( info@turkeyagenda.com) and our editors will respond to let you know whether or not we will publish it. Please make sure that you put the name of the author in your submitted piece. We aim to respond within two weeks. If you do not hear from us, please assume that we will not be able to publish your piece.For more information, please contact ( info@turkeyagenda.com) us.