Anatolia

The gas corridor sanctions forgot: Tehran’s quiet expansion into Turkey

While everyone focuses on tankers transferring the Iranian oil, a massive financial valve remains open to Tehran on NATO’s eastern border. On paper, Iran is entering its most...

Turkish University Celebrates Hamas, October 7

A university in Istanbul convened an international conference last week where terrorist leaders, government officials, and academics praised Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre and called for the destruction...

Erdogan Accuses Israel of Intending to Invade Turkey

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin’s Netanyahu government harbored ambitions that include the capture of Anatolia as part of “Greater Israel,” warning of...

Erdogan’s Turkey: Champion of Hamas, and an adversary of the West

Press conferences convened by heads of government, are usually carefully planned and choreographed occasions. Typically, prior to taking the podium, each leader’s staff usually finesse their agreed-upon...

Hezekiah’s Mistake

As Netanyahu tries to manage relations with a fracturing American empire, he would do well to read Isaiah

The Israeli Moment

If anyone is going to derail the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, Israel is really the only local counterweight that counts.

The war against Christians

It hit a peak in the last century but it's ongoing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia

Scapegoats of Wrath, Subjects of Benevolence: Turkey’s Minorities Under Erdoğan

The Prospect of U.S. Sanctions Exacerbates Turkey’s Political and Economic Risks

Turkey is experiencing one of the worst economic downturns in its history.

Catholic Church in Turkey Attacked – Again

A lone gunman...

The End of Syria

Last week marked the second year anniversary of the popular uprising in Syria. On its current trajectory, Syria is headed toward geographical fragmentation. As the security situation deteriorates...

Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring

Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy....

Turks, Arabs and Jews: The Middle East in Crisis

Standing outside Istanbul's Blue Mosque on a Friday morning as the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer, curious tourists furtively peek through the windows in the hope of catching...

Strategic Geography and the End of Assad

The latest military developments in Syria are now generally understood as ushering in a new phase in the Syrian conflict. What’s less observed is that the minority Alawite regime’s ma...

A Great Time for a Fresh Look at the Armenian Genocide

This week, a Turkish court approved a criminal indictment against four former Israeli military commanders for their alleged role in the deaths of nine Turkish activists who were trying to break I...