Seven Years of AKP Rule
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...
Did 9/11 Really Bring About a Revolution in American 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...
Mr. Erdogan Visits Washington: The AKP’s Foreign Policy and United States Interests
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...
What’s in a Case?
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,...
‘Kurdish Opening’ Closed Shut
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...
Africa trial for malaria vaccine
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...
Is Turkey Leaving The West?
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...
Turkey, Iran deepen ties
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...
Turkey: Relations between Ankara and Israel Becoming Chilly
Yigal Schleifer The once-vital relationship between Turkey and Israel is going through a distinctly frosty period. The chill began after the invasion of Gaza earlier this year, which Ankara criticized...
The Other Vaclav
Jiri Pehe After two years of debate, referendums, furious revision, and campaigning, the fate of the Lisbon Treaty to reform the European Union has come down to the signature...
Think Again: Lawrence of Arabia
John C. Hulsman It has come full circle. It's easy to assume that the Counterinsurgency Field Manual -- the U.S. military's new, post-Iraq-surge bible on unconventional warfare -- is something of a...
Clear-Eyed Engagement
The Honorable William S. Cohen, former secretary of defense. Interview with Middle East Bulletin. You told The Washington Times in July that you’ve noticed that the leaders of the Gulf States...
Geopolitics for Swindlers
Yulia Latynina President Dmitry Medvedev visited Ulan Bator on Aug. 25 and 26 and signed a commercial agreement with the Mongolian authorities. Hardly a month passes without Prime Minister Vladimir...
Secret Pact between Hitler and Stalin Stirs New Controversy
A secret agreement made between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, which divided Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and led to its invasion continues to divide historians, journalists,...