Is Turkey Playing Both Sides of Sudan’s Civil War?
Ankara’s involvement in Sudan indicates its foreign policy is bereft of any values and willing to ignore sanctions intended to deter continued bloodshed.
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Turkey Marginalized? How Trump’s Middle East Strategy is Rewriting Alliances
Nearly a month into Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. President, we are beginning to see the contours of his foreign policy in the Middle East. Having campaigned on a promise to prioritize American...
Op-eds
Turkey Is Preparing to Invade Syria, Then Israel?
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making no effort to disguise his ambitions. In a bold declaration following the first meeting of Turkey’s cabinet, Erdogan made it clear that he intends to...
Op-eds
State Department Warns Turkey Against Hosting Hamas Headquarters
U.S. discomfort over Turkish support for Hamas has reached a new threshold in the wake of reports that the Iran-backed terrorist organization is moving its headquarters from Qatar to Turkey, which is a...
Policy Briefs
Donald Trump Must Hold Turkey Accountable for Its Actions
Turkey’s authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was premature in his optimism at the re-election of Donald Trump. Erdogan is convinced that his existing relationship with Trump, will...
Op-eds
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...
Policy Briefs
Turkey Supports Russia and Hamas; The US Should Not Give It F-35 Fighter Jets
Recent discussions between Turkey and the United States indicate that the Biden administration is actively pursuing Ankara’s reinstatement in the F-35 program. It is difficult to justify why Washington would want to arm Turkey with these highly advanced fighter jets, when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes fervent measures to undermine the core security interests of the United States, NATO, and our transatlantic allies.
Op-eds
U.S. Sanctions Additional Hamas Operatives With Ties to Turkey
The United States sanctioned three Turkey-based individuals and one sham charity on Monday, designating them as prominent international financial supporters of Hamas. The sanctions, imposed on the first...
Policy Briefs
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...
Policy Briefs
Washington Should Demand Turkey Donate its S-400 Missiles to Ukraine and the U.S.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the United States to lift a broad array of sanctions that impede the ability of the two NATO allies to hit long-term bilateral trade targets. The request...
Policy Briefs
The Biden Administration Should Not Sell F-35s to Turkey
The Greek daily Kathimerini on September 22 disclosed high-level negotiations between Washington and Ankara to sell U.S. F-35 joint strike fighters to Turkey. Equipping Turkey with a fifth-generation stealth...
Policy Briefs
Why Is The U.S. So Keen To Get Turkey Back Into The F-35 Program?
Ankara has and is taking visible steps to decouple itself from upholding the values and security priorities of the NATO alliance.
Op-eds
U.S. Marines in Turkey Assaulted by Nationalist Youth Group
Two U.S. Marines in Turkey were assaulted on Monday by more than a dozen members of the Turkish Youth Union (TYU), a secular nationalist youth group opposed to U.S. and European Union influence in the...
Policy Briefs
Syria’s Assad Rebuffs Erdogan’s Effort to Normalize Ties
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the country’s parliament on August 25 that initiatives to revive relations with Turkey had not yielded “any results worth mentioning despite the seriousness and...
Policy Briefs
Turkey is committed to undermining NATO
Ankara is blowing past established norms and boundaries
Op-eds
Pro-Hamas Protesters in Turkey Call for Military Strikes Against Israel
Thousands of protestors took to the streets of Istanbul on August 3 to express their anger over the death of senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran on July 31. Emboldened by President...
Policy Briefs
Turkey Threatens to Invade Israel
Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory...
Policy Briefs
The perils of a Turkish-Syrian rapprochement
Since Turkey and Syria broke off relations in 2011, Ankara has played a prominent role in fighting Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria by supplying material support to insurgent groups seeking to overthrow...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Israel’s Proportional and Humanitarian Response
Contrary to breathless media reports, Israel’s military conduct has not embraced the collective punishment of Palestinians.