Analysis
Monday, June 17th 2024
Noa Lazimi JNS, June 9, 2024 “What can be more ironic than Erdoğan pretending to show concern for the welfare of Gazans in early October 2023, while at the same time striking about 140 civilian targets in northern Syria, including bombing hospitals?” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seizes every opportunity to criticize the IDF’s […]
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Gallia Lindenstrauss and Rémi Daniel, INSS Insight No. 1853, May 19, 2024 “The radicalization of Turkey’s approach is also part of Ankara’s efforts to influence the course of the war in the Gaza Strip.” Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, Turkey’s hawkish rhetoric toward Israel has stood out, but for months it was […]
Uzay Bulut Gatestone Institute, May 30, 2024 “Turkish government authorities have targeted their own indigenous peoples of Anatolia, namely the Pontic Greeks and Armenians.” Turkey’s Islamist government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to further indoctrinate Turkish schoolchildren in propaganda regarding Israel, Greeks, Armenians, Cyprus and other issues of history and geography. New […]
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 […]
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, Apr. 4, 2024 “… the fall of Üsküdar into secular hands and especially to a woman mayor who does not wear a hijab clearly marks the depth of the radical change.” Although municipal elections are not considered a significant political inflection point, when […]
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, […]
Levent Kenez Nordic Monitor, Apr. 3, 2024 “With government support Erbakan significantly expanded his outreach to a larger audience in Turkey by making frequent appearances on national television, openly propagating his antisemitic views on live TV.” Fatih Erbakan, a former political ally of the Turkish president and a notorious, antisemitic politician, attributed the government’s […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
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 […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 29, 2023 “Ankara’s politics of stoking tensions and then climbing down and asserting that tensions lead to respect may be out of step with the modern Middle East.” With Turkey’s elections now decided and the unsurprising victory of the long-time ruling AKP Party and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israel will […]
Jonathan Spyer Middle East Forum, June 2, 2023 “The Turkish leader has abandoned his commitment to Sunni uprisings because there are currently no uprisings to support.” Sitting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comfortably defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in this week’s runoff vote in the Turkish presidential election. The AKP leader, who has ruled Turkey since 2002, secured […]
Ofra Bengio INSS Insight No. 1735, June 6, 2023 “The approach and modus operandi of the main Kurdish organization, the underground PKK, founded in the 1970s, are in effect a mirror image of those of Erdogan’s.” Erdogan’s Strategy In his approach toward the Kurdish issue, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demonstrated initiative and […]
Tuesday, February 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Carmit Balensi and Gallia Lindenstrauss INSS Insight No. 1689, Feb. 8, 2023 “A more likely explanation is that this is a political ploy by Erdogan ahead of upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, which were moved up and are now scheduled for May 14.” Since May 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to launch […]
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