Posts Tagged: Turkey democracy
For Turkey’s President, the Failed Coup Was a ‘Gift From God’
On July 15, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “celebrated” the sixth anniversary of a failed military coup -- "a major victory" that presumably protected the...
Turkey Goes After Israel and Its Allies in the Eastern Mediterranean
Turkey’s new policy vis-à-vis Cyprus, based on a two-state solution, is being heavily criticized by the international community. In a press statement, US Secretary of...
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...
BDS Is Contemptible, But Academic Boycotts Have Their Place
Academic boycotts, rightly understood and employed, are an effective means of isolating and stigmatizing universities and other institutions that support authoritarian regimes (like Erdogan’s Turkey)...
Watching Turkey’s Descent Into Islamist Dictatorship
“Deep trouble” in Turkey’s relationships with Europe and the United States was a recurring theme in the December address of Michael Meier -- representative to America...
The Demise of Turkey’s Democracy: An Open Letter to President Erdogan
Dear President Erdogan, I have been in your country scores of times, and have developed close and friendly relations with many Turks from all walks of...
Turkey’s Elected Dictator
Even before the failed military coup, Turkey’s President Erdogan governed like a dictator who had the last word on all state matters. The botched coup...
As Erdogan Seizes Even More Power, What Will Happen to Israel-Turkey Relations?
JNS.org - An Israeli diplomat indicated this week that the Jewish state and Turkey are continuing to make a concerted effort to rebuild the strained relationship...
How Turkey Became a De Facto Dictatorship
The forced resignation of Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu suggests only one thing -- President Erdogan, who is totally absorbed by his lust for power, will tolerate...
By Seizing Control of Newspapers, Erdogan Continues to Destroy Democracy in Turkey
Only a few months after Turkey’s President Erdogan raided the offices of the Koza Ipek Media Group, the Turkish police attacked the offices of Feza Publications,...
Turkey’s Quasi-Dictator Takes on The New York Times and Democracy
For 13 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has worked to impose his Islamist vision on Turkey's proud secular democracy, reshaping the country into a neo-Ottoman republic....
The Fall of Turkey’s Would-Be Emperor
Turkish President Erdogan has recently come under intense criticism for his unwillingness to come to the aid of the beleaguered Syrian Kurds in the city...
The Limits of Democracy in the Middle East
Programmatic do-gooders, people who think themselves morally bound to leap to the side of those who seem to be underdogs, unwittingly are asking Israel to...
Turkey’s ‘Democratic’ Reforms Are Anything But
Over dinner at the newest hot restaurant in Istanbul, my friend exhales his fury. "This is democracy?" he snaps. "What kind of democracy?" It has been...
