Turkey

Syrian refugees pick up cotton from a field in the village of Bukulmez on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 3, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cottons pickers. Picture taken November 3, 2012. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE POLITICS) - GM1E8B509FD01

How to leverage trade concessions to improve refugee self-reliance and host community resilience

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Kurdish fighters gesture while carrying their parties' flags in Tel Abyad of Raqqa governorate after they said they took control of the area June 15, 2015. Syrian Kurdish-led forces said they had captured a town at the Turkish border from Islamic State on Monday, driving it away from the frontier in an advance backed by U.S.-led air strikes that has thrust deep into the jihadists' Syria stronghold. The capture of Tel Abyad by the Kurdish YPG and smaller Syrian rebel groups means the Syrian Kurds effectively control some 400 km (250 miles) of the Syrian-Turkish border that has been a conduit for foreign fighters joining Islamic State. Picture taken June 15, 2015. REUTERS/Rodi Said TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000129146

ISIS and the false dawn of Kurdish statehood

Ömer Taşpınar

Friday, December 13, 2019

Turkey has increasingly become a challenge for NATO.

New York Times Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ahmed, 27, his future wife Hanin, 18, and Hanin's mother Turki visit a pastry shop the day before their engagement party in Kilis, Turkey, March 10, 2017. Ahmed's and Hanin's journey started amid Syria's conflict and brought the two Palestinians from their homes in Damascus' suburbs to Turkey. They were introduced in the winter of 2017. As they lived in different cities, they texted for months before Ahmed took a 20-hour bus trip from Izmir to the border town of Kilis to meet her, which led to their engagement. REUTERS/Ekaterina Anchevskaya SEARCH "SYRIA MIGRANTS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1460F5A5A0

Turkey’s Syrian refugees—the welcome fades

Monday, November 25, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan shake hands at the end of a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC2LAD9PASW2

Turkey’s Erdoğan scores a pyrrhic victory in Washington

Ömer Taşpınar

Monday, November 18, 2019

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

A U.S. Air Force F15-E fighter jet takes off from Incirlik airbase in the southern city of Adana, Turkey, December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - GF10000262248

It’s time to get US nukes out of Turkey

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

A Bulgarian flag blows in the breeze, as protesters block the main road between Sofia and the Greek border near Doupnitsa, 60 km south of the capital January 30. The angry citizens of Doupnitsa turned out in shifts in freezing cold to blockade road and rail routes to Greece for a second day, in protest against Bulgaria's Socialist rulers.BULGARIA BLOCKADE - RP1DRIDBQHAA

Beyond the Berlin Wall: The forgotten collapse of Bulgaria’s ‘wall’

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer attends a news conference in Berlin, Germany October 28, 2019. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi - RC14E36E7400

A European security force in Syria is a courageous idea

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

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

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – October 2019

Wednesday, October 23, 2019