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Turkish reflections: What I learned at the Istanbul World Political Forum
Posted on May 22, 2012 | No CommentsPosted By Stephen M. Walt The remainder of my trip to Turkey sparked some further thoughts, including some qualifications to my last post. To wit: 1. I previously described the... -
Turkey’s Creeping Islamization
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsWhile Western diplomats persist in calling Turkey a “model,” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) continues to tweak relatively minor rules to change Turkish society fundamentally. He... -
AS HE LAY DYING by Cem Ryan
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsAs he lay dying in those autumn afternoons of 1938, Atatürk had one abiding desire. He longed for those distant days on horseback, just one more afternoon riding in the hills above the Bosphorus. He would go again with his military academy classmate, Ali Fuat, to the sultan’s hunting lodge in Alemdağ. They would once more picnic in that nearby meadow. Oh those cadet days, those days of youth. To be twenty-one again, rejuvenated. But by then the lodge was in ruins and Ataturk could barely walk. -
Turkey: Modern Assertiveness in a Globalized World
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsAri Katz Turkey is a predominantly Sunni Muslim, ethnically Turkish country with a Kurdish minority. Its role in several ongoing geopolitical sagas, its increasingly public Islamic conservatism, and its newly... -
General Asymmetrica Rhymes With America
Posted on March 13, 2012 | 1 Comment“Probes are ‘asymmetric, psychological,’ says ex-army chief” shouted the headline in the Hurriyet Daily News, another media mouthpiece of the Turkish government, this one for consumption by English speakers. It... -
Janus-faced Turkey’s Syria Challenge
Posted on March 8, 2012 | 1 CommentJanus-faced Turkey’s Syria Challenge Niklas Anzinger: Turkey’s success story of combining moderate Islam and democracy is being challenged by the ruling AK Party’s power grab. In this game, the struggle... -
… nation at a crossroads
Posted on February 27, 2012 | No CommentsLetter from Turkey … nation at a crossroads HORIZONS BY DR.JAVID IQBAL An aerial view, as the aircraft descends for a landing at Istanbul’s Ata Turk international airport, brings into... -
Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparks furor in Turkey by saying he wants to ‘raise a religious youth’
Posted on February 10, 2012 | 1 CommentBy Fulya Ozerkan ANKARA — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comment that his government wants to “raise a religious youth” has touched a nerve in society, fuelling debates over an... -
Tiger Turkey at the crossroads
Posted on January 28, 2012 | No CommentsThe country is one of success stories of the last decade, but is its increasingly autocratic government slowly threatening progress? Patrick Cockburn In the tea houses of Istanbul the mood... -
In Turkey’s footsteps
Posted on December 10, 2011 | No CommentsIn Turkey’s footsteps The AK Party model of governance is a model for countries like Egypt where religious norms are in conflict with civil liberties By George S. Hishmeh, Special... -
Turkey acts as mentor, model to Islamist groups
Posted on December 10, 2011 | 1 CommentIstanbul: As Islamist groups emerge triumphant in Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party or AKP) under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan seems set to act... -
From Zero Problems to Cok Problems
Posted on November 19, 2011 | No Commentsby Steven Cook Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu talks to the media during a news conference in Ankara (Umit Bektas/Courtesy Reuters). INSTANBUL — With the sharp deterioration of Turkish-Syrian relations... -
Islamist parties in Turkey
Posted on November 19, 2011 | No CommentsSome look to the Muslim Brotherhood to do for Egypt what ErdoganÕs party did for Turkey; yet the two are very different, in goals and means, writes Azmi Ashour* It... -
Turkey’s Kurdish conundrum
Posted on November 10, 2011 | 1 CommentPosted By Mohammed Ayoob Wednesday, November 9, 2011 – 4:52 PM Share Any time spent in Turkey and one cannot help but be taken in by the country’s economic dynamism... -
Turkey is a model for democracy and new relations with the West
Posted on October 18, 2011 | No CommentsOctober 18, 2011 12:59 AM By Dilip Hiro The Daily Star In the changing contours of the Middle East, swept along by the Arab Spring, nothing has perhaps been as... -
Turkey’s PR moves in the Gulf
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsDr Siret Hursoy and Dr N. Janardhan (GULF) 14 October 2011 As the domestic political dynamics of a good part of the Middle East change, so is its international relations... -
Preparing for Peace in Turkey
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe Erdogan government must not let the escalating insurgency distract it from addressing Kurdish civilians’ underlying problems. By HUGH POPE Turkey’s activism throughout the Arab Spring and its showy challenges... -
Turkey under civilian rule
Posted on October 1, 2011 | No CommentsCOMMENT: Dynamic leadership: Turkey under civilian rule —Syed Kamran Hashmi Under Erdogan’s leadership, the political government of Turkey has taken unprecedented action against the powerful Turkish army. It arrested many... -
Erdogan Creates International Complications for Turkey
Posted on September 28, 2011 | No CommentsWhile Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has been using his anti-Israeli rhetoric to build up Turkey as a new great power in the Arab world, his neo-Ottoman policy is sparking a... -
Arab Spring, Turkish Harvest
Posted on September 28, 2011 | No CommentsAfter consolidating its domestic, political position with an impressive third straight victory in the 2011 parliamentary elections, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) is poised to cement Turkey’s status as...
