Galip Dalay

Internally displaced Syrians from western Aleppo countryside, ride on the back of a truck with belongings in Hazano near Idlib, Syria, February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Turkey’s unpalatable choices in Syria

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive a ceremony marking the formal launch of the TurkStream pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC2QBE9PIRVM

The Idlib debacle is a reality check for Turkish-Russian relations

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Iraqi demonstrators shout slogans during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani - RC21DE9ZWPX7

US-Iran tensions are set to widen Iraq’s sectarian divide

Monday, January 13, 2020

Anti-war protestors gather near Trump International Hotel to condemn the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2020. REUTERS/Jan Wolfe - RC289E9824H6

Don’t let the lull deceive you: Trump’s killing of Soleimani will continue to shape the Middle East

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj walk during a welcome ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 7, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RC184FAC1510

Is Europe up for the task in Libya?

Galip Dalay and Tarik M. Yousef

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Ekrem Imamoglu, mayoral candidate of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), talks to the media at the CHP election coordination centre in Istanbul, Turkey, June 23, 2019. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir - RC129ADD2FF0

Can the Turkish opposition develop a sustainable Kurdish policy?

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Russian servicemen sit in the cabins of S-400 missile air defence systems in Tverskaya Street before a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade, which marks the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in central Moscow, Russia April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva - RC1E849FD530

Why is Turkey betting on Russia?

Monday, July 15, 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) greets his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 8, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1FB743D560

Turkey and Russia are bitter frenemies

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

What Brookings experts are saying about the two-year anniversary of the Gulf crisis

Omar Rahman, Noha Aboueldahab, Zach Vertin, Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Nader Kabbani, Ranj Alaaldin, Galip Dalay, Adel Abdel Ghafar, and Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, June 3, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attend the start of the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Turkish-U.S. strategic decoupling through the prism of Syria

Galip Dalay and E. Fuat Keyman

Thursday, February 21, 2019