Turkey

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the audience as he watches a military exercise near Izmir, Turkey, June 9, 2022. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO/Handout via REUTERS

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

Monday, June 27, 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

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

Kemal Kirişci and Dan Arbell

Monday, March 7, 2022

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Kemal Kirişci, Mine Eder, and Mert Arslanalp

Friday, January 21, 2022

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

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

Tuesday, December 7, 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

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

The coming crisis in Idlib

Thursday, May 13, 2021