Kurdistan Workers' Party

September 21, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Mr. Erdoğan in New York: A Transactional Foreign Policy Should be Repaid in Kind

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in New York this week for the UN General Assembly and side meetings with world leaders. Before going, he voiced his frustration with the Biden administration’s...

July 20, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey is granting citizenship to international criminals 

The reelection of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey’s president is resurfacing the question of whether Turkey is reanchoring itself in the Western alliance. Nothing could be further...

July 7, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

What can we expect from an Erdogan-Netanyahu meeting?

What could possibly go right, or wrong, in a meeting between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu? Recent reporting suggests that the two...

June 9, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Biden Should Demand More From Turkey Before Selling F-16s

Turkey’s elections are over, and the scramble now begins to get Turkey to ratify Sweden’s NATO membership at the alliance’s Vilnius summit. U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony...

June 8, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

What to Expect From Erdogan’s Third Term

Erdogan has two priorities: to chart a more assertive presence for Turkey and to leverage Ankara’s position inside Western institutions to make that happen.

May 8, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Erdogan Threatens to Discard Election Results

With elections just six days away and the polls showing a neck-and-neck race between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Erdogan is threatening to block a transition...

May 4, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

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...

April 13, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Biden Must Tell Erdogan To Stop Targeting US Partners

Turkey is suspected of having carried out a drone strike inside of Iraqi Kurdistan that almost killed the leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – General Mazloum Abdi. The strike, which...

March 20, 2023 | |

Turkey Approves Finland’s NATO Membership

Latest Developments Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that he now supports Finland’s application for NATO membership. By contrast, Ankara, which has stalled the transatlantic alliance’s...

March 1, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Turkey After Erdogan

January 25, 2023 | |

Erdogan Seizes on Quran Burning as New Pretext to Block Sweden’s NATO Accession

A far-right activist, Rasmus Paludan, burned a Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Sweden last weekend after authorities granted him permission. The event, which Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu condemned as a “hate crime,” threatens to derail Sweden’s NATO membership bid.

January 10, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz, Orde Kittrie

Strategy for a New Comprehensive U.S. Policy on Iran

January 10, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

U.S. and Turkey Take Joint Action to Disrupt ISIS Financing

The U.S. Treasury and its Turkish counterpart, the Ministry of Treasury and Finance, took joint action yesterday to designate four individuals and two entities tied to the Islamic State (ISIS) for enabling...

January 9, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

‘Enough Is Enough’: What Blinken Should Tell Turkey’s Cavusoglu

If Washington is going to listen to Turkey’s demands, it is incumbent upon Ankara to once and for all act like an ally.

December 16, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

FDD’s Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: The Year in Review

December 6, 2022 | Sinan Ciddi |

Biden Must Act to Prevent a Turkish Attack on US Partners in Northern Syria

Following a barrage of air strikes against Kurdish targets in northern Syria, the Turkish government has vowed to follow up with a ground campaign against the Syrian-Kurdish People’s Protection Units...

December 1, 2022 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: December

November 17, 2022 | Sinan Ciddi |

The Istanbul Terror Attack Is More Than It Seems

The question of who is responsible for the terrorist attack in Istanbul’s Taksim Square is becoming murkier by the day.

November 15, 2022 | |

Turkey Accuses the U.S. of Complicity in Istanbul Terror Attack

Turkey’s Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu accused the United States of complicity in Sunday’s terror attack in Istanbul, which killed six people and injured more than 80...

July 5, 2022 | John Hardie |

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July