Anatolia

October 18, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

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...

October 7, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

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...

May 23, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi |

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...

February 8, 2023 | Tony Badran |

Hezekiah’s Mistake

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

June 28, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Israeli Moment

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

December 26, 2019 | Clifford D. May

The war against Christians

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

March 11, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir

Catholic Church in Turkey Attacked – Again

A lone gunman...

July 30, 2015 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Turkish Grey Wolves Target ‘Chinese’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing came at an awkward time. So far this month, Turkish ultranation...

February 27, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Violent Extremist vs. Holy Warrior

Is Barack Hussein Obama wrong to avoid appending “Islamic,” “Muslim,” “Islamist,” or even “jihadist” to the terrorism that has struck the West with...

July 15, 2014 | |

Cool Istanbul

Demet Muftuoglu-Eseli is standing perilously close to the fire. The Turkish fashion mogul turned gallerist is hosting a gala dinner for “Istancool,” the annual arts and cultur...

May 14, 2013 | John Hannah |

Erdogan’s Great Gamble

Something quite extraordinary -- perhaps even historic -- is afoot in Turkey. The country's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is engaged in a colossal roll of the political dice, an act...

March 21, 2013 | Tony Badran |

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...

December 10, 2012 |

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....

November 28, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Standpoint |

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...

July 6, 2012 | Tony Badran The Weekly Standard |

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...

May 29, 2012 | |

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...

March 10, 2011 | City Journal

The Prophet, Represented

On the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 25th Street stands the Manhattan Appellate Courthouse, a Corinthian-columned marble palace built in 1900 by architect James Brown Lord. Gracing the r...

July 27, 2010 |

With America Exiting, Who Matters in Iraq?

Last week’s meeting in Damascus between former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and the leader of the Iraqi Shia Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, inevitably attracted the conventional pla...

June 29, 2010 | |

A Syria in Minor Key

The strategic vacuum the United States is leaving in the Middle East is creating a dangerously unstable situation, arguably similar to the one immediately preceding the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Thi...

November 16, 2003 | FrontPageMagazine |

Jihad in Istanbul

By Walid Phares There is no doubt about it: the final target in the terrorist attacks against the Jewish synagogues of Neve Shalom and Beth Israel in Istanbul, beyond the Jewish communit...