Rudy Giuliani

April 28, 2023 | |

Belgium Weighs Iran’s Hostage Swap Request, Convicted Diplomat for Aid Worker

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on April 27 that his government is examining a request by Tehran to release convicted terrorist mastermind and jailed Iranian diplomat...

October 26, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Landmark Iran Sanctions Ruling Against Turkish Public Lender Builds U.S. Deterrence

A U.S. appeals court ruled on October 22 that Halkbank, a public lender majority-owned by Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund, cannot claim sovereign immunity under U.S. law to scuttle a federal criminal case...

March 25, 2021 | Mark Dubowitz, Aykan Erdemir

Manhattan Court Gave Erdogan’s Pet Bank a Get-out-of-Jail-Free Card

Turkey’s currency is in free fall. International investors are fleeing the country. Accusations of bribery and support for terrorism abound. And something clearly is rotten at the heart of the Turkish...

February 5, 2021 | John Hardie |

Biden Should Heed Navalny’s Call to Crack Down on Russia’s Dirty Money

A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced leading opposition figure Alexei Navalny to almost three years in a penal colony, ruling he violated parole while in Germany recuperating from a recent chemical weapon...

July 27, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, John Lechner

Trump Should Teach Erdogan a Lesson in Law, Not Corruption

The president offered to help Turkey’s strongman beat U.S. courts, John Bolton has revealed. It only helps Iran.

April 13, 2020 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump

Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.

January 29, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Brenna Knippen

U.S. Prosecutors Propose Massive Contempt Fine for Sanctions-Evading Turkish Bank

U.S. prosecutors in New York asked a federal judge on January 21 to impose escalating fines on Turkey’s Halkbank for failing to respond in court to criminal charges that it helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions....

November 14, 2019 | Eric S. Edelman, David J. Kramer

Erdoğan’s Undeserving and Underwhelming Visit to DC

Trump’s ongoing bromance with Turkey’s authoritarian leader notwithstanding, Congress and the Administration must act to make clear that the United States isn’t giving Erdoğan a blank check to act in the Middle East.

October 24, 2019 | Jonathan Schanzer, Aykan Erdemir

Trump’s Turkey problem

In what may well have been the shortest duration of sanctions in modern history, President Trump on Oct. 23 lifted all of the sanctions he had imposed on Turkey just nine days earlier for “escalating...

October 17, 2019 | David Adesnik, Aykan Erdemir

Trump’s first mistake in Syria was ever trusting Erdogan at all

President Trump’s deficient understanding of Muslims, many of whom are at the forefront of the fight against radical Islamism, leads him to see threats where none exist. It also prevents him from recognizing...

November 2, 2018 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Some ‘Modernizer’

Is Saudi Arabia’s crown prince joining a long line of absolutist rulers in the Middle East?

October 26, 2018 | John Hannah |

Here’s How Trump Should Prepare for Iranian Escalation

Once sanctions are back in full force, the United States needs to be ready for the worst.

July 25, 2018 | Toby Dershowitz, Benjamin Weinthal

Iran’s Long, Bloody History of Terror and Espionage in Europe

The Iranian regime’s potent espionage and assassination network in Europe has operated largely without interruption since the Islamic revolution of 1979. European governments have caught an...

January 4, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Biggest Sanctions-Evasion Scheme in Recent History

Yesterday, Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom for a range of financial crimes. His dramatic trial revealed that tens o...

September 1, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Turkish Public Lender Joins Erdogan’s Washington Lobbying Spree

Turkey’s second-largest public lender Halkbank has reportedly...

May 16, 2017 | David Daoud |

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Saudi Arabia Still Hostile To Israel

Before visiting Jerusalem in several days, President Trump will stop in Saudi Arabia for meetings with Islamic leaders to discuss joint efforts against extremism. He may wish to start with Saudi...

January 12, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal The National Review

Can France Regenerate Itself to Fight Radical Islam?

The nation of France imploded last week. Heavily armed Islamic extremists ran amok, massacring police officers, cartoonists, and shoppers at a kosher supermarket. The overall death toll reached 1...

January 9, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer

A Nasty Neologism

The term Islamophobia treats political ideology as akin to race.

March 19, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

Austria, Iran, and the Holocaust

The United Kingdom is widely considered to be the central hub of efforts to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist, largely because of anti-Israel trade unions, the loony extremist British...

February 21, 2012 |

First the Ahmadi, Then Everybody Else

It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.