BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,896, January 21, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s F-16s will be phased out in 10 to 15 years. Now that it has been kicked out of the US-led F-35 program and is facing US military sanctions, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,876, January 10, 2021
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US CAATSA sanctions on Turkey’s defense industry are now official. The costs to Turkey of its S-400 deal with Russia have been enormous, both strategically and economically. Those costs …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,856, December 24, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ankara first attempted to use a commercial boycott as a foreign policy weapon in 1998, when Rome refused to extradite Kurdish nationalist Abdullah Öcalan. Turkey has made scores of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,842, December 9, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The EU does not have the option of being indifferent to the antics of neo-Ottoman bully Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Doing so would discredit the EU and weaken its soft …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,829, November 24, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Gloomy facts and figures about a country are one thing, but a sense among large numbers of citizens that they do not belong to their homeland is a different …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,817, November 15, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The recent escalation of tensions in the Aegean has the potential to strengthen the political bond between Greece and its Western allies, as well as force the EU to …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,811, November 11, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If Joe Biden remains loyal to his pre-election rhetoric, he might punish Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey with a slew of sanctions for buying critical weapons systems from Russia and …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,785, October 25, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “Make Turkey Great Again” campaign has come with military, diplomatic, geostrategic, and economic costs. Turkey’s posturing as a military might has been met with a Moody’s …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,769, October 5, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: After the infamous Mavi Marmara incident of May 2010, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and then foreign policy tzar Ahmet Davutoğlu (later PM and now an Erdoğan opponent) pledged…
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,720, August 30, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and the desire to “Turkify” place names reflect the Islamist “conquest fetish.”Modern Islamists in Turkey have created a new version of …
