Turkey

Erdoğan’s problem is not with Sweden and Finland but with Turkey’s Western vocation

Monday, June 27, 2022

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen elbow bumps with EU Council President Charles Michel at the start of a video call with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not pictured) in Brussels, Belgium, March 19, 2021. Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via REUTERS

Report

Tackling uncertainty: Turkish-EU foreign policy cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa

Meliha Benli Altunışık, Ömer Aslan, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Mitat Çelikpala, Alessia Chiriatti, Andrea Dessì, Daniela Huber, Kemal Kirişci, and Ezgi Uzun Teker

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — April 2022

Friday, April 22, 2022

Israeli President Isaac Herzog reviews the Cypriot President Honour Guard in Nicosia during an official meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2, 2022. Iakovos Hatzistavrou/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

President Herzog’s visit to Ankara: A first step in normalizing Turkey-Israel relations?

Kemal Kirişci and Dan Arbell

Monday, March 7, 2022

Reports

British Minister of State for Middle East, North Africa and North America James Cleverly, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pose for a photo at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, Germany January 20, 2022. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — January 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron take part in the final session of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall in Britain, June 13, 2021. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS

Europe

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — October 2021

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Turkey

Improving Syrian refugee inclusion in the Turkish economy: How can the international community help?

Kemal Kirişci, M. Murat Erdoğan, and Gökçe Uysal

September 2021

FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2021. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE./File Photo

Turkey

A cool, cautious calm: US-Turkey relations six months into the Biden administration

Nicholas Danforth

July 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden (on screen) attends virtual EU Leaders' Summit chaired by President of the European Council Charles Michel (L), in Brussels, Belgium on March 25, 2021. Photo by EU Council.Le président américain Joe Biden (à l'écran) participe au sommet virtuel des dirigeants de l'UE présidé par le président du Conseil européen Charles Michel (à gauche), à Bruxelles, en Belgique, le 25 mars 2021. Photo du Conseil de l'UE.

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — April 2021

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: Russian Navy's diesel-electric submarine Rostov-on-Don sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey February 13, 2022. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik/File Photo

Order from Chaos

Erdoğan’s straits of indecision in the Russia-Ukraine war

Kemal Kirişci

Monday, February 28, 2022

President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, left, in his visit to Kiev for signing cooperation treaties between both countries and offering mediation support in the crisis between Ukraine and Russia during the buildup of the russian army in the ukrainian borders. (Photo by Celestino Arce/NurPhoto)

Order from Chaos

Can the Russia-Ukraine crisis offer an opportunity to re-anchor Turkey in NATO?

Kemal Kirişci

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Students gather to protest against what they say is government interference in academia despite President Tayyip Erdogan's ousting of Melih Bulu, a rector whose appointment in January triggered months of demonstrations, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2021. The banner reads "All the government-appointed trustees at municipalities and universities will go". REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Order from Chaos

Resistance to Erdoğan’s encroachment at Turkey’s top university, one year on

Kemal Kirişci, Mine Eder, and Mert Arslanalp

Friday, January 21, 2022

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Events

2021

Oct

Past Event

NATO in a competitive world: A conversation with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Deciphering Turkey’s new regional policy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM AST

2020

Feb

Past Event

Solving the civil war in Libya

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Washington, DC

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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

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Experts

Ranj Alaaldin

Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

@RanjAlaaldin

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 on the United States and Europe

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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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More on Turkey

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attend security talks at the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland January 10, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Around the halls: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the European security order

Pavel K. Baev, Jessica Brandt, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Samantha Gross, Daniel S. Hamilton, Marvin Kalb, Patricia M. Kim, Kemal Kirişci, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Steven Pifer, Melanie W. Sisson, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Angela Stent

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) attends a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Washington March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Biden’s exclusion of Erdoğan from the democracy summit may be a blessing in disguise for Turkey

Kemal Kirişci

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony by the National Program of Civic-Military Schools, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

The awkward guests: Parsing the Summit for Democracy invitation list

Ted Piccone

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during the opening ceremony of Eurasia Tunnel in Istanbul, Turkey, December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Might the Turkish electorate be ready to say goodbye to Erdoğan after two decades in power?

Kemal Kirişci and Berk Esen

Just Security Monday, November 22, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russia September 29, 2021. Sputnik/Vladimir Smirnov/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Turkey’s Kurdish obsession explains Putin’s gains and US strains

Ömer Taşpınar

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

United States President George H.W. Bush speaks by telephone to US Secretary of State James A. Baker, III after the Secretary's first meeting with Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz of Iraq at the White House in Washington, DC on January 9, 1991. Photo by Carol T. Powers / White House via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Imperfect allies and non-state actors: Lessons from the 1991 no-fly zone in Iraq

Ranj Alaaldin

Friday, May 28, 2021

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