Hair Today, Prime Minister Tomorrow
By Dr. Soner Cagaptay | 24 August 2010 Turkey has nearly a year to go before it holds elections, but one outcome seems certain: the country's next prime minister will wear a...
How Conspiracy Theories Spread
By Soner Cagaptay, Jaclyn Blumenfeld, and Burc Ozcelik | 01 August 2010 How and why do conspiracy theories spread in Turkey? Recent developments are a case in point, demonstrating the role of...
Turkey’s New Foreign Policy Direction: Implications for U.S.-Turkish Relations
By Michael Rubin | 28 July 2010 House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Berman, Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen, Honorable Members. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. Prime Minister Erdoğan, and the Justice and...
Statement of Dr. Ian Lesser
By Ian Lesser | 28 July 2010 House Committee on Foreign Affairs Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to share my views on Turkey's evolving foreign policy...
Turkey and the United States: How To Go Forward (and Not Back)
Statement for the Record By The Honourable Ross Wilson | 28 July 2010 House Committee on Foreign Affairs Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for the honor of being invited to...
Statement of Soner Cagaptay, Ph.D.
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...
Chairman Berman’s opening statement at hearing, “Turkey’s New Foreign Policy Direction: Implications for U.S.-Turkish Relations”
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...
The AKP’s Hamas Policy III: Countering Radicalization
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...
The AKP’s Hamas Policy II: “Us vs. Them”
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...
The AKP’s Hamas Policy I: How Turkey Turned
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...
Let’s not Forget History’s Lessons
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...
Turkey Lost Turkey
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....
The Bigger Picture: Israel-Turkey Relations in Context
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...
Turkey Still Needs The West
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...
Terrible Twins: Turkey, Brazil and the Future of American Foreign Policy
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...