Posts Tagged: Turkey
Good News for Freedom: Turkish Youth Don’t Believe in Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not lost a single election, including municipal elections and referenda, since his AKP (Justice and Development) party came to...
Is Yemen the Next Frontier of a Turkey-Russia Conflict?
In a recent video, Turkey-backed Syrian mercenaries fighting on behalf of Tripoli’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya, aided by local Islamist militias,...
Hamas Takes Opportunistic View of Potential Annexation
Hamas has sent threatening yet vague messages in recent weeks about what might happen if the Israeli government annexes some West Bank settlements. Hamas spokesman Abu...
Turkey and Qatar: Love in Bloom
Few Qataris who fought the Ottoman colonialists to gain their independence in 1915 and end the 44-year-long Turkish rule in the peninsula would ever have...
Turks Turn on Each Other — and the ‘Enemy Within’
For two despicable decades starting at the end of the 1960s, Italy was racked by the Anni di Piombo (Years of Lead). That era was...
Turkey’s Selective Amnesia With the Palestinians
The collective Turkish memory has clear perceptions of which nations are friends and which are foes. In Turkey, the average length of schooling is only...
Don’t Fall for Turkey’s Duplicitous Charm Offensive
In an article published in 2016, “Erdogan: The World’s Most Insulted President,” I suggested that the perpetually angry Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, would...
Turkey’s Dangerous Intervention in the Libyan and Syrian Civil Wars
Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan is constantly looking for opportunities to enhance its status as a regional superpower and promote its Islamist ideology in the...
Muslim LGBT ‘Allies’ Silent as Muslim Attacks on Gays Increase
There's a new slur trending in Turkey these days aimed at the LGBTQ population: "#YallahHollandaya" or "Go to Holland." The expression reflects the Netherlands' longstanding...
Turkey’s Alliance with Iran — and Sunni and Shiite Islamists
At the time of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan unleashed an...
Turkey’s Erdogan Makes a Risky Regional Power Bid
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relations with his US and European allies are strained over unilateral Turkish moves in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey’s acquisition of a Russian...
Islamist Parties in Turkey: A Perpetual Matryoshka
The principal ideologue and leader of Islamism in Turkey was Necmettin Erbakan (1926-2011), none of whose various political parties managed to win enough of a...
Turkey Destroys Scores of Syrian Army Targets: Defense Minister
Turkey said on Sunday it had destroyed air defense systems, more than 100 tanks, and downed two planes belonging to the Syrian army as part...
Turkey Tells Russia That Attacks in Syria’s Idlib Must Stop
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday he told his Russian counterpart that attacks in Syria's northwestern Idlib region must stop immediately and that...
