Category: Commentary
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has recently made a speech where he has outlined how to gradually exit the Covid-19 lockdown for Turkey. After outlining the ‘normalisation plan’, Erdoğan has also talked about Turkey’s fight ...
Turkey is well into its second month since the first coronavirus case was diagnosed on March 10. As of May 5, the number of reported cases has reached almost 130,000, which puts Turkey among the top eight ...
Now, with the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis, Turkey has itself become a hostage. Two years ago Nate Schenkkan, a project director at Freedom House, claimed that hostage-taking had become Turkey’s new foreign policy. He ...
An economic crisis was looming even before the coronavirus gripped Turkey with unexpected ferocity. But the contagion has quickly and ruthlessly laid bare the ways President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left the economy vulnerable, presenting him ...
(Bloomberg Opinion) — It may be the closest thing to a foreign-policy success that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has had in years: Turkey’s intervention in Libya’s civil war has seemingly turned the tide in favor ...
There is no longer any doubt that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an autocrat and an Islamist. He seeks to monopolize power, accumulate wealth for his immediate family, and change the principles upon which Turkish society ...
A new report from Human Rights Watch on forcible disappearances in Turkey called for an “effective investigation into credible testimony” from one of the most recent men to go missing for months. The New York-based Human ...
There was a time when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — whether you liked him or not — represented change. He stood for a forward-looking vision for the country, suggesting that he could navigate the most pressing ...
The world is witnessing in slow-motion a second Iran in the making, less violent and dramatic, more sophisticated and potentially more enduring. From 2002, when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AK Party reached power, until ...
Amid Turkey’s deepening economic woes and the COVID-19 pandemic, the main opposition has come into the government’s crosshairs for allegedly inciting a military coup, which is no coincidence. An image of Canan Kaftancioglu, the Istanbul ...