The Plight of Iranians in Turkey
Turkish authorities on Monday detained Maryam Shariatmadari, an anti-Hijab activist twice-jailed in Iran, threatening deportation back to her home country. Although an international outcry from...
Erdemir
Turkish-Qatari Alliance Threatens Washington
Turkish-Qatari partnership in the Middle East will strengthen Islamist extremism and threaten American interests in the region, new think tank report finds
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Watching Turkey’s Descent Into Islamist Dictatorship
“Deep trouble” in Turkey’s relationships with Europe and the United States was a recurring theme in the December address of Michael Meier — representative to America and C...
Op-eds
WarCast
As a former member of Turkish parliament and a respected academic, Aykan Erdemir has important views on what last year's coup attempt did to Turkey and how President Erdogan used the episode...
Op-eds
Trump Faces Dilemma in Battle Against ISIS: Turkey or the Kurds
Last July, in the midst of the presidential election campaign, Donald Trump declared in an interview that he was "a big fan of the Kurds." Speaking about the fight against ISIS on the ground in S...
Op-eds
Assassination in Ankara: Cop guns down Russian ambassador
Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was assassinated Monday night during the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition in Ankara when he took to the podium to make a speech. T...
Op-eds
Lawmakers arrested in Turkey; car bomb kills 9
A huge car bomb killed at least nine people in the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast region Friday, shortly after authorities detained a dozen Kurdish lawmakers in rela...
Op-eds
Clinton Campaign Was Warned That Turkey’s Erdogan Was Attempting to Buy Favor
Top Hillary Clinton campaign officials were warned last summer that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would make contributions to the campaign through American proxies to gain favor, but cho...
Op-eds
A ‘war within a war’ is brewing in Iraq – and the US is caught in the middle
Washington has again found itself in the middle of a fast-escalating conflict between two of its most important partners in the fight against ISIS. ... The back-and-fort...
Op-eds
Despite detente, Erdogan may find Israel too good a scapegoat to resist
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is likely to start blaming Israel for the attempted coup that threatened to depose him over the weekend, due to a perceived connection between the Jewish st...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Weathervane Foreign Policy
On June 27, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would be normalizing relations with ...
Op-eds
Analysis: Turkey takes pragmatic approach, seeks to undo isolation, gain influence
Turkey’s aggressive Islamist- oriented foreign policy has led to a loss of influence in the region, as its opponents keep it in check. After opposing Israel so strongly in the past...
Op-eds
Turkey just received a huge ‘political gift’
but its opponents are warning it could lead to a ‘big war'
Op-eds
Turkey Angers the Jihadists It Once Tolerated
With Turkish authorities now singling out the Islamic State as the chief suspect in this weekend's terrorist attack in Ankara, many media outlets have turned their anger toward the governmen...
Op-eds
Former Turkish Parliamentarian Joins FDD as Non-Resident Fellow
WASHINGTON — Dr. Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish Parliament from 2011 to 2015, has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident fellow. Based in An...