Posts Tagged: Donald Trump Turkey
Turkey’s Erdogan Uses War to Deflect His Domestic Failures
The article “Give War a Chance: Arab Leaders Finesse Military Defeat,” by Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, and published in the Summer...
Erdogan’s ‘Please Sanction Me’ Challenge
Due largely to a blend of over-ambitious policy objectives, an assertive neo-Ottomanism, a newfound hard power as a means to augment soft power, and colossal...
Turkey’s Generation Z: A Youth Challenge to Erdogan
Political scientists call them “Generation Z.” They are young Turks born around the turn of the millennium -- technically, those who were born in 1995...
Turkey Will Betray America and the West
The US political elite has long suffered from “Who lost that country?” syndrome. It started with the Truman administration, which failed to prevent the communist...
Turkey and Israel: Can Pragmatism Defeat ‘Bad Blood’?
For the first time in several years, the word “Israel” is not automatically accompanied in Turkey by bold pejoratives like “baby killer” or “terrorist state.”...
Turkey Is Not — and Should Not Be — an American Ally
Will Turkey’s current hostility towards the West be long-lived, as is post-revolutionary Iran’s -- or will it fade with the inevitable demise of its mercurial...
If NATO Is Going to Fight Terrorism, It Needs Israel
JNS.org - President Donald Trump thought the 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held earlier this week was...
The West Tolerates Turkey Mainly Out of Fear
Turkey’s value for the West is not about the good it can offer, but the evil it might choose not to spread. In recent years,...
How Tehran Sees Turkey’s Invasion of Syria
Turkey’s military offensive against the Kurds in northeastern Syria prompted recriminations from the Islamic Republic, but the Iranian regime understands that it could ultimately redound...
Turkey’s Pyrrhic Victory in Syria
Turkey’s military incursion into northeastern Syria had an ostensibly happy ending on its seventh day, with all state and non-state actors in the Syrian theater...
Trump Leaves Turkey, Syria ‘to Argue It Out’ and Clashes With US House Speaker
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not mind Russia helping Syria in a conflict with NATO ally Turkey and rejected criticism of...
Trump Sends Kurds to the Slaughter: An Act of Betrayal and Infamy
Trump’s decision to withdraw American forces from Syria may well be remembered as one of the most egregious and inhuman disasters that he has undertaken...
The Invincible Sultan: Is Erdogan Losing His Populist Charm?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan behaves like a cornered cat when it comes to regional politics: he acts savagely and erratically, lashing out at both...
Donald Trump, the Syrian Kurds — and ‘Never Again’
According to a recent poll, 37 percent of Americans believe that Benjamin Franklin -- not Thomas Edison -- invented the light bulb. But Americans’ historical...
