A Mountain Moves in Turkish Foreign Policy

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Soner Cagaptay
October 26, 2009


Is Turkey Leaving the West?

Foreign Affairs
October 26, 2009

In early October, Turkey disinvited Israel from Anatolian Eagle, an annual Turkish air force exercise that it had held with Israel, NATO, and the United States since the mid-1990s. It marked the first time Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) let its increasingly anti-Western rhetoric spill into its foreign policy strategy …

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A Trap for Muslims
Hurriyet Daily News
October 25, 2009

How does one deal with and explain rising anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israeli sentiments in Turkey? A dangerous tendency is to look into the historic roots of these phenomena and explain them as being hardwired in the Turkish polity, not as products of current politics. …

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Surfacing Submarine

Daily Star
October 22, 2009

I am often asked these days why Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is so upset with Israel. …

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Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute.

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