Don’t forget Iran!
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Neo-Ottomanism
Why Turkey Can’t Bring Peace to Gaza
Ankara’s pro-Hamas rhetoric makes it unfit to help police the Gaza Strip.
Op-eds
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,...
Op-eds
How not to end endless wars
Retreating and abandoning allies may not be the optimum strategy.
Op-eds
Scapegoats of Wrath, Subjects of Benevolence: Turkey’s Minorities Under Erdoğan
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Diplomatic Collision Course
The assassination Monday of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassad...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Weathervane Foreign Policy
On June 27, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would be normalizing relations with ...
Op-eds
Ankara’s Failure
Makalenin Türkçe çevirisini buradan okuyabilirsiniz. When ...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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?
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The Great Alawite Hope
Belief in Bashar al-Assad was always misplaced. Now it’s time for change.
Op-eds
The Syrian Challenge
The administration’s policy toward Syria is shaping up to be the greatest missed opportunity of Barack Obama’s presidency. His failure of vision and nerve, paired with an acute Republ...
Op-eds
Turkey Plays Out Of Its League
Two months after the Gaza flotilla affair, it seems the wager made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, namely to boost his domestic standing while making a bid for regional primacy wi...
Op-eds
Erdogan Makes Turkeys of The Arabs
As the dust begins settling after the Gaza flotilla affair, it has become increasingly clear that Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) resorted in a premeditated way to popul...