Category: Commentary
From Syria to Libya to Palestine, Erdogan is staking Turkey’s claim to be a power player in the Middle East – by turning unmitigated losses into strategic wins One might be forgiven for thinking that ...
Developments in Syria’s northern Idlib region have put Turkey’s President in a tight corner, perhaps the tightest since he first hijacked state power ten or more years ago. Upwards of a million refugees, purged by ...
A Middle East that has been the political and military hotbed of world superpowers for hundreds of years, this time in a new world and with the new policy will be influenced by the seemingly ...
TURKEY’S President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an “Islamist,” in the extreme sense of the word. He doesn’t wear a suicide vest, he doesn’t behead people, he doesn’t even go around holding one finger up ...
It all began with a coup… Key Point: Perhaps it would have been easier not to get rid of those F-16 pilots. Fighter pilots aren’t cheap. The U.S. Air Force estimates that training a new pilot ...
Land prices are booming in Sazlibosna. Over a tulip-shaped glass of tea in one of the village’s cafes, local governor Oktay Teke says that a few years ago, a square meter of land here in ...
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,448, February 14, 2020 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s latest moves in Libya and the eastern Mediterranean should be viewed in the context of the recent Kuala Lumpur Summit, which announced the emergence ...
Interview with Elif Shafak “There is a lack of democratic culture in Turkey” The Turkish writer Elif Shafak is one of the country’s best-selling authors and one of the best known Turkish writers worldwide. In ...
By meeting publicly in Moscow, Ali Mamlouk, special security adviser to Assad, and Hakan Fidan, head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation, wanted to send the Kurds a strongly worded message. Syrian and Turkish intelligence chiefs ...
The age of the great Ottoman sultans may have long passed, but the harbinger of a looming war between of the cross and the crescent – Recep Tayyip Erdogan – still lives in it. In Erdogan’s ...