BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,350, November 20, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Trump’s “businessman’s realism/optimism” over his newly found ally notwithstanding, acute policy differences and an eroding confidence threaten the future of U.S.-Turkish relations.
“Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,322, October 25, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s value for the West is not about the good it can offer but the evil it might choose not to spread. In recent years western tolerance of Turkey …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,317, October 22, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is wrong to think a cross-border military operation into Syria will solve an ethnic conflict that dates back to the early nineteenth …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,300, September 26, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At testing times, Turkey’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has always sought refuge at home, taking pleasure in his massive popularity. But after 17 consecutive years in power, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,195, June 9, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The first-ever NATO member state to shoot down a Russian military jet has willingly fallen in line with Vladimir Putin’s “Turkish Gambit,” a strategy designed to drive a deep …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,155, April 28, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The March 31 elections, which blended victory with defeat for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, put a further brake on Turkey’s stalled membership talks with the EU. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,070, January 22, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US administration has offered to sell $3.5 billion worth of Patriot missiles to Turkey, apparently in an effort to stop Ankara from going ahead with a planned S-400 …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,030, December 7, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s radical shift in crises, first with Russia and then with America, shows that while President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can be confrontational along ideological lines, he is …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 971, October 10, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not understand that his biggest divergence with Russia is over the future of all of Syria, not just a Syrian province. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 938, September 3, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The present Turkish-American diplomatic crisis is fundamentally different from other such crises in 1964 or 1975. Turkish public sentiment in the 1960s and 1970s was largely pro-American (and anti-Soviet). …
