Category: Turkey and Neighbourhood

By Prof. Bülent Gökay | 16 September 2010 Since 33 members of Turkish 'Deep State' (Contra-Guerrilla), also known as Ergenekon, were seized in a police raid in late January 2008, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...