BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 642, November 15, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan perceives the Kurdish belt along Turkey’s Syrian and Iraqi borders as the country’s top security threat, and has recalibrated his policies accordingly. But he …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 610, October 10, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: About the same proportion of Turks view the US (72%) and ISIS (73%) as a threat to their country. That’s weird. Erdoğan’s generation of Islamists were anti-American largely because …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 583, September 10, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Almost all the “poor” illegal migrants on the Greek islands want to go to Germany, where they have heard from friends and relatives that they will be the best …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 562, August 17, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey says it wants to join the EU, but has no intention of complying with membership rules. The EU says it wants Turkey to join, but is fully aware …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 535, July 20, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who firmly believes it is religion that should shape national friendships and enmities, has tried singlehandedly to inject love for the Arab into Turkish …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 518, July 4, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In deeply polarized Turkey, words are not just words. It has been part of Erdoğan’s campaign to make Turkey more Islamic and more Turkish. In his view, this entails …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 499, June 16, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The siege of Qatar is sending messages on many wavelengths, some intended for Turkey. Sadly, Erdoğan is too ideologically blind to see that Turkey is standing on the wrong …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 491, June 9, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Discounting the sincerity of Turkish President Erdoğan’s fiercely anti-western rhetoric ahead of the April 16 referendum is akin to disregarding bitter facts about once staunch NATO ally Turkey. NATO’s …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 478, May 27, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey has reduced its dependency on foreign arms technology in recent years to the advantage of its local industry, which is striving to design, develop, and build a rich …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 460, May 7, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Optimists thought Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s inflammatory, anti-Western pre-referendum rhetoric was just election talk that would disappear after the ballots were counted, but that was a vain hope. …
