Abstract Mirroring region-wide trends, Turkey has adopted a policy of bridge-building across the Middle East in recent years. The main drivers behind Turkey’s new orientation are economic imperatives, a reduction of the United States’ footprint ...
Ryan Gingeras, a historian of the late Ottoman Empire and author of “Heroin, Organized Crime, and the Making of Modern Turkey“, said that the Turkish political administration “has pursued policies that openly tolerated criminal activities” and that ...
ISTANBUL — Teachers have become the latest professional group to draw the ire of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following a demonstration in Ankara that ended in a violent police reaction. Responding Thursday to calls for ...