Turkey

Hand out photo dated August 24, 2020 of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) executes maneuvering drills with Greek Navy warship Kortenaer FF Class Aegean (F 460) off the coast of Crete, in the Mediterranean Sea. Tension is simmering in the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean as Greece and Turkey, NATO allies but historic rivals, inch toward a possible military confrontation that could end up engulfing the region. Naval vessels from both countries made a show of force in the contested region of the Eastern Mediterranean this week as a race for gas and oil reserves adds a new point of friction to old disputes. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV via ABACAPRESS.COM

Order from Chaos

The new, great, dangerous game in the eastern Mediterranean

Federica Saini Fasanotti

Friday, August 28, 2020

Palestinians ride a horse-drawn cart transporting aid supplies distributed by UNRWA at Beach refugee camp amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Gaza City June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Order from Chaos

COVID-19 and the chance to reform US refugee policy

Kemal Kirişci and Sam Denney

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel look into documents during the first face-to-face EU summit since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium July 20, 2020. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — July 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020

Deciphering Turkey’s new regional policy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM AST

Reports

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

Turkish Workers in Cabbage Field

Report

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

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

Blog Posts

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

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

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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

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Events

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

Brussels, Belgium

Turkey in a new period: Challenges and opportunities

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

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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

2000

Experts

Ranj Alaaldin

Visiting Fellow - Brookings Doha Center

Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Kemal Kirişci

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

Ömer Taşpınar

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

otaspinar

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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

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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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