Year: 2014

By Soner Cagaptay | 28 July 2010 House Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on "Turkey's New Foreign Policy Direction: Implications for U.S.-Turkish Relations"   Thank you, Mr. Chairman...

By Howard L. Berman | 28 July 2010 The purpose of this hearing is to gain insight into the changes in the foreign-policy direction of our long-time ally Turkey. Now the sixteenth-largest...

By Soner Cagaptay | 9 July 2010 For Turks today, after seven years of propaganda, Hamas appears to be a good organization as it has been a guest in Istanbul seven times...

By Soner Cagaptay | 5 July 2010 At home, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has promoted the Islamist mindset of "us Muslims" in conflict with "the bad others" through the...

By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 29 June 2010 Turkey has not traditionally boasted strong popular support for Hamas, or any other groups with a violent Islamist agenda. Turks generally have had an...

By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 14 July 2010 Reply to Dr. Cagaptay's Article (Turkey Lost Turkey) “When Ataturk established the CHP in the 1920s, his vision was to make Turkey European”[1].  Yes it...

By Soner Cagaptay | 12 July 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama last week partly blamed the European Union for supposedly driving Turkey away from the West by stalling the country's EU accession....

By Dr. Guy Burton | 20 June 2010 The fallout from the Gaza flotilla debacle at the end of May provides an opportunity to consider the relative positions of Israel and Turkey...

By Walter Russell Mead | 15 June 2010 In an earlier post, I wrote about the emergence of Turkey and Brazil on the world stage.  Since then, the ‘terrible twins’ voted against...

By Walter Russell Mead | 05 June 2010   These days, there’s an unusual spectacle in world affairs.  The United States has relatively good relations with the major powers: China, the EU...

By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 08 June 2010 Ever since the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) assumed power in 2002, Turkish foreign policy has made a 180-degree turn. The country's once-strong...

By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 20 May 2010    Turkey's protracted political battle between the governing Justice and Development Party, or AKP, and its opponents reached a crescendo this month with the...

But parliamentary ratification of the deal has stalled in both countries over the contentious issue of World War I-era killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, which Yerevan insists constituted genocide...

This paper argues that Turkey’s experience with economic crisis in 2001 demonstrates the effects of the investment model of economic development interacting simultaneously with the liquidity model. Investment model focuses on pull...