BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,712, August 27, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey is protesting the UAE for establishing diplomatic relations with Israel—even though Ankara has had diplomatic relations with Israel for the past 71 years. If the UAE, as Ankara …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,701, August 20, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Turkish lira’s unprecedented slide, on top of soaring interest and inflation rates, record unemployment, and recession, is contributing to a looming economic collapse. In the face of such …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,685, August 10, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: More than seven million Turks born around the millennium—Generation Z—will vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2023. By age group, they will be the next kingmakers. Studies …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,668, July 30, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey, which has labeled onion traders terrorists, blames the Kurds for the turmoil in America, and encourages its own intelligence agency to kill Turkish journalists abroad who are critical …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,636, July 10, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Only 12% of Turks say they trust Islamic clerics, and more and more young Turks are unhappy at religious school. As high a proportion as 60.5% of pro-Erdoğan youths …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,620, July 1, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Qatar has done it again. Just as it did in 2018, Doha has rushed billions of dollars to Turkey to thwart the Turkish lira’s slide in the face of …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,600, June 8, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s political polarization along conservative and secular lines is showing signs of being a slow-fuse time bomb. For most Turks, the domestic “political other” is not just a rival …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,594, June 3, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey exhibits a remarkably stubborn selective amnesia about its own history. The country claims the title of world’s greatest friend to the Palestinians and most ardent champion of their …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,559, May 11, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Between 1994 and 2015, the Kurdish vote in Turkey rose from 4.1% to 13.1%. A greying Turkey is facing a baby boom in Kurdistan: the Kurdish fertility rate, at …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,558, May 10, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is faced with a dilemma: in order to avoid US sanctions, he must keep the S-400 system he purchased from Russia unopened, but doing …
