If you want a sense of where the Middle East is going, consider this viewpoint from an unlikely source… Continue reading
Relations between the governments of Iraq and Turkey continue to deteriorate… Continue reading
Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization… Continue reading
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently expressed allegiance to “one nation, one flag, one religion, one state”… Continue reading
Turkey may be headed toward an unexpected presidential election in August 2012, as the Constitutional Court is set to rule on the constitutionality of a temporary law… Continue reading
Despite its challenging neighborhood, Turkey has an exemplary nuclear nonproliferation record… Continue reading
The trial of the two surviving members of the junta that seized power on September 12, 1980, in a coup that altered Turkey’s course, is an historic event, but… Continue reading
The passage of the bill that remolds compulsory education in Turkey erases the legacy of the secularist military intervention fifteen years ago… Continue reading
On 21 March 2012, Turkish government officials began briefing trusted journalists on what they described as the new strategy of the ruling AKP for solving the country’s long-running Kurdish problem… Continue reading
As Syria sinks deeper and deeper into the throes of civil war, the decade-long honeymoon between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party and Bashar al-Assad’s regime has all but ended… Continue reading
The decision of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to visit Turkey along with Ireland and the United States during his ten-day world tour before becoming president in about a year underscores the importance Turkey holds for China’s leaders… Continue reading
Turkey’s old habits of state authoritarianism persist under the rule of the AKP… Continue reading
In response to increasing international concern about controversial cases such as Ergenekon, Sledgehammer and KCK, the AKP has repeatedly insisted that the judicial system is independent and that there is nothing that it can do… Continue reading
A power struggle between the AKP and the Gülen movement is unraveling… Continue reading
The international sanctions against Iran, and most recently the decision of the EU countries to stop importing oil from Iran, are ultimately going to have a major impact on Turkey… Continue reading
Most international attention has focused on the more than 100 journalists who are now in jail in Turkey as a result of what they have written or said… Continue reading
That Athens controls this wisp of land implies it could claim an exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean Sea that reduces the Turkish EEZ to a fraction of what it would be were the island under Ankara’s control… Continue reading
In the early hours of January 6, General İlker Başbuğ, chief of the Turkish General Staff from 2008 to 2010, was arrested and imprisoned on allegations of “founding or directing an armed terrorist organization, inciting the overthrow of the government of the Turkish Republic or the prevention of it fulfilling its duties”… Continue reading
The year 2011 saw a “regression toward the mean” in Turkey’s relation with the United States… Continue reading
Turkey’s emergence in the 21st century as a Middle Eastern power has been in the making for the last decade… Continue reading
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, declared that, if Iran came under attack from the U.S. or Israel… Continue reading
Internal and external dynamics no longer compel Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to transcend his democratic limits… Continue reading
Turkey’s high-flying economy will crash-land in 2012… Continue reading
Turkey’s growing international profile has been controversial… Continue reading
Wherever one looks, Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors” policy is fading… Continue reading
The inability of the Baath regime in Damascus to bring the situation in the country under control has compelled Turkey to… Continue reading
Are Islamist parties portrayed as more moderate or pluralistic than they actually are… Continue reading
Turkish government representatives insist that they want to develop good ties in all directions… Continue reading
The new constitution of Turkey needs to be societal compact that reflects the pluralism of society… Continue reading
The AKP is using the KCK investigation as an instrument to try to crush all opposition to its increasingly hawkish policies on the Kurdish issue… Continue reading
This paper analyses the impact of domestic dynamics on its relations with Israel during the current AKP government and the RP led government in the 1990s… Continue reading
It is truly amazing that the Turkish government would send to Washington in 2010 an Ambassador who had opposed Erdogan’s Islamist party… Continue reading
Turkish-Israeli bilateral relations remain strained… Continue reading
The Turkish government has now responded with one of its largest counterinsurgency operations in years… Continue reading
A new term is foisted on us without serious debate or proof and we are supposed to rejoice at the triumphs of those now called “moderate Islamists”… Continue reading
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