Analysis
Wednesday, April 10th 2024
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
ISRAEL EXTENDS ITS HAND Foreign Minister Cohen Lands in Turkey to Show Solidarity, Meet With Erdogan: Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, Feb. 14, 2023 — Foreign Minister Eli Cohen landed in Turkey on Tuesday morning for a one-day solidarity visit in the wake of the deadly earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people. […]
Abdullah Bozkurt Nordic Monitor, Feb. 11, 2023 “Erdoğan, his family and his cronies in political and business establishments pocketed huge sums at the expense of the safety of citizens.” The large-scale destruction of property and huge number of casualties in Turkey’s massive earthquakes earlier this week have exposed decades of mismanagement, nepotism and waste […]
Bobby Ghosh Washington Post, Jan. 9, 2023 “Should Erdogan be defeated, says Sinan Ulgen, director of the Istanbul think tank EDAM, “his successor will transform Turkey into a different foreign policy actor, more comfortable with its position as a Western nation.” Among the many general elections of international consequence to watch this year, Nigeria’s, scheduled […]
Burak Bekdil Gatestone Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 “Most Turks still believe what they were taught at primary school: A Turk’s only friend is another Turk.” NATO is essentially a security alliance. Its preamble, however, states that the organization is founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. The grossly autocratic […]
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