- Burak Bekdil
- Paper No. 2038
The departure of some Turks from Erdoฤan-style manifest Islamism based on visible piety instead of spiritual and moral piety probably means their departure from Erdoฤanโs voter base.
Turkey
- Prof. Hillel Frisch
- Paper No. 2016
The foreign policy of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoฤan, a combination of imperialism and Muslim Brotherhood sentiment, was most visible in his moves against Abdel Fattah Sisiโs Egypt. Ankara is beginning to recognize its folly. Will the new US administration learn from its mistake?
- Dr. James M. Dorsey
- Paper No. 2010
In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the focus of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in the Muslim world.
- Burak Bekdil
- Paper No. 2002
The emerging Islamic bloc of three Muslim statesโTurkey, Azerbaijan, and Pakistanโseems feasible in theory, but its growth is constrained by the realities. Azerbaijan is still more Russian turf than Turkish, and Pakistan remains Chinese territory. The new Islamic bloc resembles three kids playing cowboy while their parents smile and watch. The parents will stay on the sidelines only until such time as they sense danger to their interests.
- Burak Bekdil
- Paper No. 1992
Everythingโs coming up roses for Turkeyโs thriving drone industry, but a cash-strapped economy and technological challenges may slow further progress.
- Dr. Begum Burak
- Paper No. 1985
Turkey has never had a fully liberal democratic regime. The country, which suffered the authoritarianism of the Kemalist regimeโs top-down attempts to modernize, is now experiencing a different form of authoritarian consolidation under the AKP-controlled government.
- Burak Bekdil
- Paper No. 1982
Turkey, a member of NATO, now effectively has a jihadi proxy force that it has deployed in its Syrian homeland as well as in faraway war theaters like Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Burak Bekdil
- Paper No. 1980
The shady purchase of Cougar helicopters by the Turkish military was a 1990s-era controversy. An even bigger question than the terms of their purchase is how the Turkish military managed to lose 40 soldiers while operating them.
- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1972
Western pundits spend a great deal of time trying to determine โwho lost Turkey.โ Ankaraโs relations with the West are indeed tense, but there will be no severing of ties or withdrawal from NATO. Ankara is attempting a balancing act in which it diversifies its external ties to include Eurasia rather than remain anchored solely to the West.
- Emil Avdaliani
- Paper No. 1968
Western pundits spend a great deal of time trying to determine โwho lost Turkey.โ Ankaraโs relations with the West are indeed tense, but there will be no severing of ties or withdrawal from NATO. Ankara is attempting a balancing act in which it diversifies its external ties to include Eurasia rather than remain anchored solely to the West.