Posts Tagged: Turkey dictatorship
Autocrats Shift Gears By Exporting Repression of Freedoms Abroad
Increasingly, muzzling political freedoms beyond national borders is part of an autocrat’s toolkit. Men like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and the presidents of...
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...
An Open Letter to Turkish Despot Tayyip Erdogan
Dear President Erdogan, Over the past year, I've had the opportunity to speak to many Turkish scholars and former government officials, the majority of whom left...
The US-Turkey Diplomatic Crisis
The current Turkish-American diplomatic crisis is fundamentally different from other such crises in 1964 or 1975. Turkish public sentiment in the 1960s and 1970s was...
What Turkey’s New Islamist-Nationalist Alliance Means for the World
Four decades after they emerged as marginal parties in the 1970s, Turkey’s militant Islamists and ultra-nationalists won a combined 53.6% of the national vote and...
What Erdogan’s ‘Election’ Will Mean for Turkey — and the World
The re-election of Turkey’s President Erdogan -- falsely considered to be free, fair, and representative of the will of the majority of the Turkish population -- has dire implications,...
Turkeys’ Erdogan Is an Antisemite and a Regional Threat
JNS.org - Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) have ruled Turkey since 2002. Under Erdogan’s leadership, Turkey has gradually distanced itself...
Turkey’s Erdogan vs. the Free Press
First the good news: Turkey, which is already the worst jailer of journalists in the world, may no longer need to put newsmen and women...
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...
Saving NATO From Turkey
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, known as NATO, faces an existential problem. No -- it's not about getting member states to fulfill agreed-upon spending on defense projects, nor finding a...
Erdogan: A Classic Case of How Power Corrupts
Much has been written on the endemic corruption in Turkey that involves virtually every social stratum -- including political, judicial, government administration, private sector, civil society, business...
A Message to Trump: Turkey’s Erdoğan Can’t Be Trusted
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was at his repellent best when he was interviewed by Israeli television journalist Ilana Dayan this week. Although the interview...
Why I Supported the Turkish Coup Attempt
Every major government condemned the coup attempt in Turkey, as did all four of the parties with representatives in the Turkish parliament. So did even...
