Turkey

Deciphering Turkey’s new regional policy

Monday, Jul 13, 2020 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM AST

Deligates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld,Pool

China

Balancing act: Major powers and the global response to US-China great power competition

Fiona Hill, Tanvi Madan, Amanda Sloat, Mireya Solís, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Bruce Jones, Emilie Kimball, Jesse I. Kornbluth, and Ted Reinert

July 2020

Migrants rest in a ditch, after crossing from Turkey to Greece, near the border crossing of Kastanies, Greece, March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis

Order from Chaos

How trade concessions can improve refugee self-reliance

Kemal Kirişci

Monday, June 29, 2020

Parents wait outside the main campus of the Istanbul University while their children take the national university entrance exams, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Order from Chaos

Reopening the World: As the country normalizes, COVID-19 strains Turkey’s economy and politics

Kemal Kirişci

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Reports

Report

How the EU and Turkey can promote self-reliance for Syrian refugees through agricultural trade

Kemal Kirişci

Monday, February 3, 2020

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcome France's President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Pool

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2020

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens during a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, New York, U.S., September 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1BBB443CF0

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – October 2019

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Britain's Queen Elizabeth pose at the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace in London, Britain June 3, 2019. Alastair Grant/Pool via REUTERS - RC19A2509000

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – July 2019

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (C) walks alongside Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (R) and other unidentified officials during the opening ceremony of the new Turkish embassy in Abdiazizi district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Feisal Omar - S1AETHUSPPAA

Turkey

Turkey and the new scramble for Africa: Ottoman designs or unfounded fears?

Zach Vertin

Sunday, May 19, 2019

Blog Posts

EDIRNE, TURKEY- In the photos, immigrants are seen near the border of Turkey with Greece in the province of Edirne, Turkey, on March 3, 2020. Thousands of Syrian refugees are anxiously waiting to cross into Europe from Turkey, on the border Northwest with Greece.

Order from Chaos

As COVID-19 worsens precarity for refugees, Turkey and the EU must work together

Kemal Kirişci and Başak Yavçan

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan chairs a meeting with ministers, bankers and business leaders to discuss dealing with coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ankara, Turkey, March 18, 2020. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE

Order from Chaos

The coronavirus has led to more authoritarianism for Turkey

Kemal Kirişci

Friday, May 8, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit sprays disinfectant at Grand Bazaar, known as the Covered Bazaar, to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Istanbul, Turkey, March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Turkey and COVID-19: Don’t forget refugees

Kemal Kirişci and M. Murat Erdoğan

Monday, April 20, 2020

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Events

2020

Feb

Past Event

Solving the civil war in Libya

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

The Global Compact on Refugees and Opportunities for Syrian refugee self-reliance

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM CET

Turkey in a new period: Challenges and opportunities

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

Doha, Qatar

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Related Books

Brookings-SSPA Series on Public Administration

Edited by Federiga Bindi and Irina Angelescu

2011

Winning Turkey

By Philip H. Gordon and Ömer Taspinar; Afterword by Soli Ozel

2008

A Changing Turkey

By Heinz Kramer

2001

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Experts

Amanda Sloat

Robert Bosch Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe

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Kemal Kirişci

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project

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Ömer Taşpınar

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence

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Multimedia

Sap oozes from poppies after they are scratched, a process to get opium from poppies, in a village outside Balkh province, about 500 km (310 miles) north of Kabul May 6, 2006. The illegal narcotics trade dominates Afghanistan's economy, accounting for 60 percent of its gross domestic product and 87 percent of the world's supply. Heroin and morphine are derived from opium, which comes from poppies. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Drug Trafficking & Counter-Narcotics Policy

Heroin’s journey during COVID

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jack Meegan-Vickers, Tariq M. Khosa, Ben Crabtree, Jason Eligh, and Simone Haysom

The Impact

Friday, May 22, 2020

Global Trade

To help Syrian refugees, Turkey and the EU should open more trading opportunities

Kemal Kirişci and David Dollar

Monday, March 2, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC2MAD9Q8ACH

Podcast Episode

What did the Trump-Erdoğan meeting accomplish?

Amanda Sloat and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, November 14, 2019

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