Kemal Kirişci, TÜSİAD senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and director of the Turkey Project, discusses his new book Turkey and the West: Fault Lines in a Troubled Alliance with the director of the Brookings Institution Press Bill Finan.
Also in this episode, Stephen Hess, senior fellow emeritus in the Governance Studies program, shares an excerpt on the day President Kennedy was assassinated from his forthcoming political memoir.
Show notes:
“The EU and Turkey need each other. Could upgrading the customs union be the key?”
“The United States and Turkey: Friends, enemies, or only interests?”
“On Turkey, Germany’s Merkel and Schulz are making a major strategic mistake”
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Authors
Commentary
PodcastTurkey’s troubled relations with the West
Fred Dews,
Fred Dews
Managing Editor, New Digital Products
- Office of Communications
@publichistory
Kemal Kirişci, and
Kemal Kirişci
Nonresident Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project
@kemalkirisci
Bill Finan
Bill Finan
Director
- Brookings Institution Press
@billfinan
November 17, 2017