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The Muslim Brotherhood's Fall Lands Turkey an Unexpected Ally: Kurds 16 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Today, Turkey and Egypt recalled their ambassadors from each other's capitol, signaling a major downturn in bilateral ties. At the same time, Turkey's influence in Cairo seems to be winding down. Inde...
Turkey's Jihadi Dilemma 5 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
In late May, the Turkish government uncovered a plan to use Sarin gas as part of a potential bomb attack in southern Turkey. Al Qaeda's branch in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), was allegedly behind the ...
Turkey's Middle Class Strikes Back 5 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Since 2002, Turkey's sound economic policies have made it a member of the Group of 20 and turned it into a majority middle-class society for the first time in its history. Yet this week's huge protest...
Turks Have Learned the Power of Grassroots Politics 4 Jun 2013 | 07:00 pm
Turkey witnessed two fascinating developments last week. In the first, pro-environment groups organized a sit-in to protest government plans to cut down trees in the heart of Istanbul to make way for ...
Testing Turkey 28 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
For all the talk of Turkey's "zero problems with neighbors," no amount of soft power has been able to protect the country from the protracted civil war in Syria. Now over two years old, that conflict ...
Syrian crisis leading towards open Turkey-Iran conflict 26 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
Soon after the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002, Turkey launched an ambitious foreign policy agenda to make itself a stand-alone regional leader. With this new vision, Turkey lo...
Syria to top Erdogan's Washington agenda 16 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
This week's summit between President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reflects the extraordinary development of relations between the United States and Turkey. Ankara faces...
Turkey's Future 14 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
Can Turkey continue its phenomenal economic rise, and also becomes a democratic power? Turkey is often bent and torn by its deep societal fault lines. Philosophical divides enflame secularists and Isl...
Erdogan Visits Washington 7 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
As President Obama prepares to receive Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on May 16, Ankara is casting the visit as an historic opportunity to build on the personal relatio...
What Does Turkey Gain from PKK Talks? 4 May 2013 | 07:00 pm
On April 25, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced that it would withdraw its militants from Turkish soil after more than four decades of fighting against Ankara, including carrying out terror a...
