BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,145, September 3, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Wildfires and floods in August revealed how weak Turkey is in the face of natural disasters, and how skewed are the priorities of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Once again, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,141, September 1, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The BMC affair is just one example of an Erdoğan business crony making hefty gains thanks to nepotism and favoritism.
Ethem Sancak is a Turkish businessman with an empire …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,109, July 30, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turks are hungry for fairy tales. Any feel-good news propaganda—including Erdoğan’s “The West, including the Germans, are jealous of us!” tirade—finds millions of receptive listeners in Turkey’s postmodern marketplace …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,106, July 27, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: How sustainable will the Aegean Sea’s peaceful summer of 2021 prove to be? For Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the primary reason for peace in the Aegean has been the threat …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,100, July 20, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Revelations on YouTube by Turkish mob boss and Erdoğan ally Sedat Peker are rattling the Turkish government. Peker’s disclosures involve murder, rape, corruption, bribery, political assassination, drug smuggling, arms …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,086, July 2, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US and Canadian embargoes are threatening Turkey’s attack helicopter and drone sales to third-party countries. Ankara has come up with a corporate legal solution to this problem, but it …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,077, June 21, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Power fatigue per se does not fully explain the decline of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He will have a hard time uniting a majority of Turks around the flag and …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,074, June 17, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s string of failures and increasing isolation in the Eastern Med have forced President Erdoğan to recalibrate his policy toward the region. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,066, June 7, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict in May, an American author was suspended by Twitter for comparing a Boston Globe cartoon to Nazi propaganda. New York Times writers …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,060, June 1, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Joe Biden’s use of the word “genocide” on Armenian Remembrance Day was not a game-changer in US-Turkish relations, which are plagued by more fundamental problems. But it enhances …
