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Wednesday, November 20th 2024
Erdogan Has Become the Enemy, and It’s Time to Deal with Him: Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 Turkish Foreign Minister Declares He Is ‘In a War’ With Israel: Levent Kenez, Nordic Monitor, Nov. 19, 2024 Turkey Must Earn Trump’s Reconciliation: Sinan Ciddi, Washington Examiner, Nov. 16, 2024 Is Turkey’s Military the World’s Latest Paper Tiger?: Michael […]
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Nadav Shragai Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 “Erdogan’s congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on his victory should remind the American president of Turkey’s deceptive overtures to Israel just two years ago.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s support for Hamas and hostility toward Israel have reached a critical point, with Turkey providing sanctuary to Hamas operatives while […]
Sinan Ciddi Washington Examiner, Nov. 16, 2024 “Erdogan’s championing of Hamas is entrenched. Turkey is the only country inside the NATO alliance and, certainly, the only U.S. ally that openly embraces Hamas as a group of “resistance fighters.”” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels he has reason to be optimistic. He was bracing for the election of Vice President Kamala […]
Michael Rubin Middle East Forum, Nov. 4, 2024 “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a formidable military and sought to remake it in his own image.” A video circulating on Telegram and other social media suggests North Korean Special Forces dispatched to fight Ukraine on Russia’s behalf have seen their first combat. The video purports to interview the single North Korean […]
Wednesday, September 11th 2024
Michael Rubin Middle East Forum, Sept. 9, 2024 “Just as dictatorships set Ethiopia and Sudan down the path to division, so too does Erdoğan make Turkey’s collapse inevitable.” For decades, beginning in the 19th century, Europeans referred to the Ottoman Empire as “the sick man of Europe.” First sultans and then so-called reformers acting […]
Prof. Efrat Aviv BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,294, Aug. 4, 2024 “The Turkish threat to Israel and the Turkish-Israeli conflicts over the past decade and a half have repeatedly provided the Justice and Development Party and its leader with opportunities to position themselves as champions of Islam, an image they strive to project to fortify […]
Wednesday, April 10th 2024
Shira Li Bartov Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, Mar. 27, 2024 “This is an opportunist leader. I don’t think he cares about Palestinians. He has been instrumentalizing the Palestinian cause for a long time.” Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s assertion earlier this month that Turkey “firmly backs” Hamas was the culmination of months in which the Turkish president has lambasted Israel’s […]
Yasar Bukan The Conversation, Mar. 12, 2024 “… as Turkey’s foreign policy grew more assertive, the strategy faltered and the country found itself surrounded by more enemies and fewer friends.” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently gave the clearest indication yet about his political future, stating, “With the authority that the law confers on me, […]
Thursday, June 8th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
MEDIA COLLUSION Turkey and the Power of Controlling the Narrative: Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune/ TNS, May 23, 2023 — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defied all expectations when he won nearly half the vote in Turkey’s election on Sunday. This means he’ll face a presidential runoff for the first time, but he looks poised to […]
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