Month: March 2014

Soner Cagaptay Rising social violence between Kurds and non-Kurds in Turkey, with daily incidents occurring, is an unusual, and therefore alarming, phenomenon.   This violence has been spurred as much...

Barry Rubin   As a liberal I am deeply concerned at the illiberal teachings of American public schools today, but what American children are being taught should not be a partisan issue. The...

Ziya Öniş  The period since the December 1999 Helsinki summit has been a time of remarkable economic and political change in Turkey. The EU impact was already evident in the...

Soner Cagaptay What will U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan discuss when they meet in the White House on Dec. 7?  There is going to...

Soner Cagaptay Turkey's ties with its neighbors have been transformed since the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, came to power seven years ago. Some analysts have described the AKP's...

Soner Cagaptay Turkey's ties with its neighbors have been transformed since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power almost seven years ago in November 2002. Some analysts have...

Soner Cagaptay   The rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), a party rooted in Turkey’s Islamist opposition, to government in 2002 introduced new social, political, and foreign policy...

M. K. Tomiak The modern western world had never witnessed an attack on the US as profound, momentous and devastatingly spectacular as those of September 11 2001. Not only were...

Soner Cagaptay On December 7, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Washington to meet with President Barack Obama. The meeting follows Obama's April visit to Turkey, during which the...

Soner Cagaptay When US President Barack Obama visited Turkey in April, hopes were high that the US-Turkish relationship was finally getting the boost it needed. Ties between Washington and Ankara,...

Soner Cagaptay On Oct. 24, Kurdish migrant farm workers started a fight in the town of Ipsala, in the northwest region of Turkey. After the Kurdish workers apparently harassed local...

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The malaria parasite transmitted by mosquitoes kills one million people each year [EPA] Scientists in Africa have begun trials of a malaria vaccine which, if successful, could save millions of...

Soner Cagaptay In early October, Turkey disinvited Israel from Anatolian Eagle, an annual Turkish air force exercise that it had held with Israel, NATO, and the United States since the...

Erol Izmirli   Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid a two-day visit to Tehran last week, meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials. The result was a massive...