Turkey

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.

Order from Chaos

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

Ömer Taşpınar

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

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

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Members of a Syrian family stand in front of a currency exchange office in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, August 8, 2021. Thousands of Afghans have been forced to flee to Turkey through Iran following U.S.' withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban's advance in the provinces. Turkey currently hosts over 3.5 million Syrian refugees in addition to the Afghans and other countries. (Photo by Ilker Eray/GocherImagery/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

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

Reports

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

Syrian refugees walk as they carry containers at an informal tented settlement in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon March 12, 2021. Picture taken March 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Report

Revisiting and going beyond the EU-Turkey migration agreement of 2016

April 2021

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

Turkey

Between cooperation and containment: New US policies for a new Turkey

Nicholas Danforth

February 2021

Hand Out photo dated Auguts 26, 2020 of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), not pictured, executes a passing exercise with Turkish Navy frigates TCG Barbaros (FF 244) and Burgazada (F 513) 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

Report

Turkey, Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean: Charting a way out of the current deadlock

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to the media after attending Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Turkey

The many faces of Turkey’s religious soft power

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Blog Posts

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

Order from Chaos

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

Friday, May 28, 2021

Turkish Red Crescent workers carry humanitarian aid at Kelbit camp, near the Syrian-Turkish border, in Idlib province, Syria January 17, 2018. Picture taken January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

Future Development

The coming crisis in Idlib

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Turkish riot police blocks the main gate of Bogazici University to prevent students from leaving the campus as they protest against President Tayyip Erdogan's appointment of a new rector in Istanbul Turkey January 4, 2021. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan

TechStream

On Turkish Clubhouse, a brief experiment in a more open web

Merve Tahiroglu

Thursday, April 1, 2021

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Events

Deciphering Turkey’s new regional policy

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM AST

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

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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

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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More on Turkey

People walk past by a Syrian jewelry shop in Istanbul's Kucukcekmece district, Turkey, July 5, 2019. Picture taken July 5, 2019. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan

Challenges facing Turkey’s Syrian businesses

Friday, March 19, 2021

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.

As EU-Turkey migration agreement reaches the five-year mark, add a job creation element

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting with businesspeople in Istanbul, Turkey, January 15, 2021. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

Erdogan will not freeze his relationship with Russia

Monday, February 1, 2021

Supporters of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wave national flags ahead of a meeting of the president with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in Brussels, Belgium March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

US-Turkey relations will remain crisis-ridden for a long time to come

Friday, January 29, 2021

Students of Bogazici University protest against President Tayyip Erdogan's appointment of a new rector, in Istanbul, Turkey January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

A new assault on a democratic citadel in Turkey, too

Ayşe Candan Kirişci and Kemal Kirişci

Friday, January 15, 2021

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

Biden and Erdoğan are trapped in a double fantasy

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş and Jeremy Shapiro

Wednesday, January 6, 2021