Turkey’s Cautious Bid for Regional Power
The difference in how Turkey treats Greece and Israel illustrates its diplomatic and military strategy.
Neo-Ottomanism
Erdogan Dreams of Annexing Arab Countries, Reviving the Turkish Empire
The prospect of a revived Turkish empire poses a new threat to Arab sovereignty.
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Turkish interior minister states dream of governing Jerusalem, provoking Israel
Turkey’s Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci publicly expressed his desire to one day serve as Jerusalem’s governor, while suggesting that the city and other former Ottoman territories would...
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Blacklisting the Brotherhood
The Trump administration made history on November 24, 2025, when it issued an executive order calling for the U.S. government to designate “certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as Foreign Terrorist...
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Don’t forget Iran!
There is truly a historic opportunity at work, based on the civilian protest movement. The world should not squander it.
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Why Turkey Can’t Bring Peace to Gaza
Ankara’s pro-Hamas rhetoric makes it unfit to help police the Gaza Strip.
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Bridging the Gap
Turkey Between East and West
Legislative Testimonies
Spectacles of Tolerance: The Precarity of Turkey’s Religious Minorities in the Era of Neo-Ottoman Delusions
Excerpt Turkey watchers continue to debate whether neo-Ottomanism, an ideological proclivity to exalt and revive an imagined Ottoman past and its traditions of religio-political authority and domination,...
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How not to end endless wars
Retreating and abandoning allies may not be the optimum strategy.
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Scapegoats of Wrath, Subjects of Benevolence: Turkey’s Minorities Under Erdoğan
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Turkey’s Patchwork Foreign Policy
Turkey’s steady descent into authoritarianism under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has be...
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The end of Turkey’s democratic experiment
On the grounds of the Turkish Embassy facing Massachusetts Ave. in Washington, D.C. is a statue of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, father of the Republic of Turkey, the nation-state he built from the rubb...
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Turkey’s Diplomatic Collision Course
The assassination Monday of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassad...
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Ankara’s Influence: Asset or a Liability?
The Mosul operation, launched on October 17, has once again highlighted the complicated nature of Turkey’s involvement in the fight against the Islamic State (IS). Ahead of the offensive, T...
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Erdogan’s Weathervane Foreign Policy
On June 27, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would be normalizing relations with ...
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Ankara’s Failure
Makalenin Türkçe çevirisini buradan okuyabilirsiniz. When ...
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The Neo-Ottoman
Turkey should have been part of the solution. Instead it’s become part of the problem. The problem, of course, is the spread of jihadism throughout the Middle East, North Africa and beyond....
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Loner
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is only the latest American to join the chorus of government officials and opinion-makers suggesting that the Arab Spring has left Israel more...
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New Ottoman Empire?
In the complex geometry slowly taking shape in the new Middle East, the Palmer report must have felt like a godsend to Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The report criticises...
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Ataturk, the Arab Spring and Europe’s Fall
The father of Turkey looked to Europe. Why would anyone do that today?