BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 910, July 30, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, undoubtedly the most popular and divisive leader in modern Turkish history, has already ruled the country longer than Atatürk, the founder of modern, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 878, June 29, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Four decades after they emerged as marginal parties in the 1970s, Turkey’s militant Islamists and ultranationalists won a combined 53.6% of the national vote and 57% of parliamentary seats. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 867, June 17, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On June 24, Turkey will hold its sixth election in four years. The Turks will choose between augmenting what is practically one-man rule based on Islamist politics and returning …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 853, June 3, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In theory, Turkey’s relations with Russia have never been brighter. However, behind the nice façade lie a deep ideological divide, mutual mistrust, and diverging regional interests. Eight decades after …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 813, April 27, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The takeover of Turkey’s largest independent media group by an Erdoğan crony was not unexpected given the troubles and systematic state harassment suffered by the Dogan Media Company over …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 777, March 21, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been the main beneficiary of a newfound feeling of glory among Turkey’s increasingly nationalistic masses. The main loser is the YGP, …
BESA Perspectives, No. 760, March 5, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Erdoğan prepares to launch his campaign for presidential elections scheduled for November 2019. At a time of rising xenophobia and anti-western sentiments across Turkey, his campaign will undoubtedly target the “evil …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 739, February 13, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Like most moments in the passionate Turkish-Persian relationship, incidents of Muslim-to-Muslim fraternity are misleading. For the mullahs in Tehran, Turkey remains too western, too treacherous, and too Sunni. For …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 709, January 7, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled National Security Strategy paper does not specifically mention Turkey. Some Turks think this is good, as any mention would likely have been negative. …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 679, December 10, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A quick glance at Turkey’s facts and figures helps to explain why the Turks love their leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. There are striking parallels between the political sociology of …
