Turkey

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

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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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

What did the Trump-Erdoğan meeting accomplish?

Amanda Sloat and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, November 14, 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 - RC117DD2EDF0

Tensions with Turkey escalate in wake of US sanctions

Thursday, August 2, 2018

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“To destroy the liberal world order”: Trump, Putin, and the imperiled trans-Atlantic alliance

Friday, July 20, 2018

A fishing boat sails in the Golden Horn.

Turkey’s troubled relations with the West

Fred Dews, Kemal Kirişci, and Bill Finan

Friday, November 17, 2017

Supporters of Turkish President Erdogan wave national flags during a rally for the upcoming referendum in the Black Sea city of Rize

On democracy after the Turkish referendum

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu attend a news conference in Ankara, Turkey, March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

The United States and Turkey: Friends, enemies, or only interests?

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş and Kemal Kirişci

April 2017

Intersections episode: Democracy in Turkey

Democracy in Turkey: Before and after the coup

Kemal Kirişci, Ted Piccone, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

Coup attempt in Turkey

Kemal Kirişci and Fred Dews

Friday, July 22, 2016