Erdoğan-Obama Differences over Syria Downplayed at Washington Summit
by Richard Weitz (vol. 6, no. 10 of the Turkey Analyst) At their joint White House news conference, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Barack Obama stressed their common desire...
View ArticleTurkey and Syria’s Jihadis: More than Free Passage?
by Murad Batal al-Shishani (vol. 6, no. 10 of the Turkey Analyst) On February 20, 2013, Syrian rebels and the Kurdish militia—which had fought each other for months in a town near the Turkish...
View ArticleThe Arab-Kurdish Battle in Syria: Implications for Turkey's Standing
by Veysel Ayhan (vol. 6, no. 4 of the Turkey Analyst) The battle over the Syrian town Ras al-Ain on the border to Turkey and the recent cease-fire agreement between the Syrian opposition and the...
View ArticleTurkey and Syria: a Parting of Ways
By Richard Weitz (vol. 4, no. 15 of the Turkey Analyst) The turmoil in Syria threatens to deprive Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of one of its most significant foreign policy...
View ArticleTurkey and Syria: From Friendship to War?
By Veysel Ayhan (vol. 4, no. 22 of the Turkey Analyst) The inability of the Baath regime in Damascus to bring the situation in the country under control has compelled Turkey to move against its...
View ArticleAnkara and Washington Ponder Next Moves in Syria
By Richard Weitz (vol. 5, no. 4 of the Turkey Analyst) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has just completed a well-timed visit to Washington. Although many issues arose during his multi-day...
View ArticleTurkey and Syria: an Undeclared State of War
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 5, no. 13 of the Turkey Analyst) After Syria’s downing of a Turkish aircraft over the eastern Mediterranean, the question is not so much why Syria shot it down as why the two...
View ArticleWhy Turkey is Not Going to Help Midwife a Pluralistic Syria
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 5, no. 15 of the Turkey Analyst) Turkey would make a significant contribution to the resolution of the Syrian crisis if it could bring itself to rise above the sectarian...
View ArticleTurkey and the US Ponder Syrian End Game
By Richard Weitz (vol. 5, no. 16 of the Turkey Analyst) Turkish and U.S. officials have finally begun to contemplate the Syrian endgame. Both governments would like to avert further civil strife and...
View ArticleWhat Does Turkey Hope to Achieve With Its War Threats Against Syria?
By Halil M. Karaveli (vol. 5, no. 19 of the Turkey Analyst) The Turkish government appears to hope to deter the continued Syrian – and Iranian – deployment of the Kurdish card against Turkey. But it is...
View ArticleTurkey's Changing Syria Policy: Giving Diplomacy a Chance?
By Veysel Ayhan (vol. 5, no. 20 of the Turkey Analyst) Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 17, proposed that...
View ArticleRussia-Turkey Strains Deepen Over Syria
By Richard Weitz (vol. 5, no. 20 of the Turkey Analyst) Despite vigorous efforts by Russian and Turkish policy makers, differences over Syria threaten to disrupt what has been a harmonious...
View ArticleTurkey to Deploy Patriot Missiles
By Richard Weitz (vol. 5, no. 23 of the Turkey Analyst) Turkey’s membership in NATO has many unique dimensions, including in the number of missile-related crises the country has experienced. Washington...
View ArticleTurkey Needs Help to Manage the Syrian Refugee Crisis
By Jesper Åkesson (vol. 7, no. 15 of the Turkey Analyst) The regions of Turkey that border Syria need external support, both from the Turkish government and from the international community, as these...
View ArticleTurkey’s Water Policies Worry Downstream Neighbors
By John Daly (vol. 7, no. 16 of the Turkey Analyst) As armed conflict ravages Syria and Iraq, Turkey risks adding to the social and political tensions to its south by cutting the water flow of the...
View ArticleWhat the Columnists Say
The question whether or not and to what extent Turkey is going to participate in the fight against ISIS is at the center of the attention of the Turkish columnists after the release of the Turkish...
View ArticleWhat the Columnists Say
Several columnists express concern over Turkey’s future after the violent clashes in the Kurdish parts of the country and the government’s reaction to them. Cengiz Çandar writes that the leadership of...
View ArticleTurkey Moves Toward a Grand Bargain with Kurdistan
By Micha’el Tanchum (vol. 7, no. 19 of the Turkey Analyst) On October 20, Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu announced that “Peshmerga” fighters from the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG)...
View ArticleThe Syrian Refugees in Turkey Remain at the Mercy of the Turkish Government
By Halil Gürhanlı (vol. 7, no. 23 of the Turkey Analyst) The Turkish government continues to refuse to grant Syrians who have taken shelter in Turkey refugee status in line with international...
View ArticleLosing a Foothold in a Dream: Turkey's Evacuation of Süleyman Shah
By Gareth Jenkins (vol. 8, no. 4 of the Turkey Analyst) On the night of February 21-22, 2015, amid fears that it was in danger of being overrun by the ISIS, the Turkish military staged a cross-border...
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