Turkey faces an inflection point
‘In the same way Atatürk dragged Turkey struggling and screaming into the Western world, Erdoğan has exerted every effort to drag...
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The U.S. or Hamas: Erdoğan Must Choose
Secretary Antony Blinken just completed a tour of countries in the Middle East to drum up support for Israel’s position and freeing the...
How Erdoğan and Orban Maintain the Illusion of ‘Free Press’
Authoritarian leaders might be good at damaging democracy, but unless they are pure dictators they often still need to worry about winning...
‘The US is failing to press Erdoğan’ – John Bolton
‘I think Biden has actually gone out of his way to try and mollify Erdogan. The shipment of F-16s presumably associated with Turkey,...
Erdoğan and the Pillars of His Power – Prof Gökhan Bacık
The latest presidential and parliamentary elections in May this year resulted in yet another victory for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his...
How Turkey’s Opposition Elite Misled Voters and Enabled Erdoğan
‘The wider failure of public intellectuals is twofold: first, raising the expectations of people who looked up to their analysis and were...
Is This the End of Erdoğanomics?
‘Raising interest rates may have side effects. Turkey has one of the world’s highest percentages of “zombie firms” that have only...
Will Erdoğan Ever Ditch His Offensive Foreign Policy?
‘We should abandon the notion that Erdoğan’s Turkey will anchor itself with the West. Leaders like Erdoğan — and perhaps Viktor...
‘Prodigal Son’ Fallacy: How Erdoğan is misread by the West
‘In terms of his worldview, Erdoğan is existentially and ferociously opposed to Western geopolitical dominance. He has been since his...
Power, The Judiciary, and Journalism: Rule of What?
‘Before a confused and/or aloof set of allies, President Erdoğan continues unhindered on his path to subordinate the entire judiciary to...