Ahmet Davutoğlu

Erdogan’s Turkey: Diminished and Marginalized

Under the president’s watch, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to describe any foreign policy portfolio that has furthered the country’s national interest.

Is Turkey Getting Tough On Terrorism?

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently announced that Turkish forces had successfully neutralized the current leader of the Islamic State (IS), Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi following a raid on...

Turkey After Erdogan

Spectacles of Tolerance: The Precarity of Turkey’s Religious Minorities in the Era of Neo-Ottoman Delusions

Excerpt Turkey watchers continue to debate whether neo-Ottomanism, an ideological proclivity to exalt and revive an imagined Ottoman past and its traditions of religio-political authority and domination,...

Turkey’s Ziraat Bank Under Scrutiny

Irregularities Point to Erdoğan’s Manipulation of Financial System to Consolidate Power

Turkey Uses Medieval Score-Settling To Justify Its Hagia Sophia Conversion

Europe is now home to one of the world’s strangest paradoxes. The continent’s most prominent mosque, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, has served as a church since the year 1236. Meanwhile, Ankara in July converted Europe’s...

COVID-19 and Erdogan’s Power Consolidation

Since the rise to power of the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey in 2002, its leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used successive crises as pretexts to consolidate power that has...

Turkey’s elite unsure whether Soleimani was hero or war criminal

Underscoring the absence of any clear position, Erdogan’s spokesperson called on all sides to act with “common sense,” and the Turkish Foreign Ministry invited “restraint and discretion.”

Erdogan Removes Kurdish Mayors from Office – Again

The Turkish government on Monday removed from office three mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) less than six months into their five-year terms. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...

Khashoggi Crisis Holds a Mirror to Turkey

Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The Turkish government alleges...

Turkey’s Premier Visits Washington

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is in Washington this week...

Turkish Prime Minister Falls Victim to Palace Coup

After a week of open strife within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erd...

With Iran Visit, Turkish PM Hopes to Preserve Tenuous Status Quo

Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu paid his first official visit to Iran as prime minister this weekend. Following his meeting with Iran's First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, news reports...

Russian Forays Into Turkish Airspace Challenge Ankara’s Syria Policy… And NATO

Russian warplanes entered Turkish airspace from Syria twice over the weekend,...