Category: Commentary
Was Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque about short-term electoral interests? Certainly, he needs to boost his popularity, fast waning due to a declining economy, perceptions of corruption and ...
By weaponizing immigration and launching new foreign adventures, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is increasingly acting like his Russian counterpart. And though such behavior speaks to a deteriorating political situation at home, Europeans can no ...
Controlled macroeconomic policy experiments are rare. Yet that is what President Recep Erdogan seems to be offering in Turkey with his highly unconventional economic policies. He might help us better understand how macroeconomics works but ...
Why has the special forces commander General Zekai Aksakalli been retired since he had been so central to stopping the coup attempt against Erdogan? A Turkish general with a background in the Special Forces, who ...
In August 2011, as Libya’s rebels and Nato jets began an assault on Tripoli, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi delivered a speech calling on his supporters to defend the country from foreign invaders. “There is a conspiracy ...
There is a close relationship between the structure of the regional and international orders and how a state formulates its foreign policy, and then acts accordingly. Changes on the international and regional levels influence a ...
Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, once declared his political mission as “raising devout (Muslim) generations.” Recent research has shown that Turkish youths have defied Erdoğan’s most ambitious social engineering project. It is not surprising ...
Erhan Dogan, a 39-year-old Kurdish schoolteacher from Turkey’s eastern province of Elazig, says he first experienced torture on the night of July 26, 2016. It began following his arrest by Turkish police in Ankara on ...
Until recently, Russia’s dominance in the natural gas markets southwest of its borders appeared unassailable. These days, that is less and less the case. Largely unnoticed yet dramatic changes are taking place in Turkey – ...
Turkey’s regional rivals are going beyond Libya as they respond to the scale-tipping Turkish military intervention in the North African country. Having declared a red line at Sirte and al-Jufra on the Libyan battlefield, Egypt ...