Category: Turkey and Neighbourhood

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...