Kotsev: Egyptian nightmare for Erdogan (4)
ISTANBUL- While the Turkish government spent much of the last couple of years branding itself as a paradigm for Egypt and other Arab Spring countries, the reverse is now taking place: Egypt is becoming...
View Article‘Retaliation Campaign': Erdogan Punishes Protesters in Turkey
Following mass anti-government protests in Turkey, Ankara is now taking revenge on its critics. Activists and demonstrators are being investigated and intimidated, while journalists are getting fired...
View ArticleSpengler: The End of Erdogan’s Cave of Wonders (1)
Turkey is coming apart. The Islamist coalition that crushed the secular military and political establishment–between Tayip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party and the Islamist movement around Fethullah Gulen–has...
View ArticleRichter: Make No Mistake About It – The Storm Has Hit In Turkey (1)
Last week we took you through an emerging crisis in Turkey that will set the investment terrain for 2014. This week, we feel the subject warrants another installment as Prime Minister Erdogan, the...
View ArticleA Brother’s Vengeance: The Preacher Who Could Topple Erdogan
The greatest threat yet to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan comes from a former ally. Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen and his influential followers seem determined to accomplish what the recent protest...
View ArticleIstanbul police fire tear gas on protest over Internet curbs
Istanbul (AFP) – Turkish riot police in Istanbul fired tear gas and water cannon Saturday at around 3,000 people protesting new legislation tightening control of the Internet. Police took action to...
View ArticleBarkey: The End of Erdogan
It is hard to imagine how in any society a Prime Minister caught on tape firing journalists because he does not like their point of view or instructing television stations to stop the broadcasting of...
View ArticleTurkey Mine Disaster: Erdogan Loses His Grip
This week’s mine explosion in Soma, Turkey has killed almost 300 people and galvanized the country. Now Erdogan’s insensitive outbursts, and a video of him calling a man an “Israeli brute,” are...
View ArticleBlack: Get Tough with Turkey (3)
Tell the Turks to stop supporting terrorism — or get out of NATO. The time must have come to consider whether it is really acceptable to retain Turkey as a member of NATO. At various times in the...
View ArticlePipes: Why Turkey’s Upcoming Election Probably Won’t Rein In Erdogan (2)
Almost every assessment of the national parliamentary election to take place in Turkey on June 7 rates it among the most important in the republic’s nearly century-old history. The New York Times deems...
View ArticleMcCarthy: Turkey Has a Long Road Back to Democracy
Whenever Islamists lose elections, it is to be celebrated. In that spirit, we should celebrate Turkey’s national election, in which (as Jim, John, Jay, and Pat note) the AKP — the “Justice and...
View ArticleErdogan’s Cynical Game: Is Turkey Creeping Toward Civil War? (1)
Turkish President Erdogan claims to be battling the terrorist Islamic State, but in reality he is mainly fighting against the Kurdish PKK militia. By doing so, he has shown that he is willing to derail...
View ArticleTurkish magazine raided, copies seized for mock Erdogan selfie
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police raided a magazine on Monday over a mocked-up “selfie” of a smiling President Tayyip Erdogan with the coffin of a soldier – an allusion to comments that families of...
View ArticleKasim: Turkish-Kurdish Tensions Escalate as Election Looms
Earlier this summer, tit-for-tat violence between the Turkish government and the country’s Kurdish minority began undermining years of peace negotiations. With clashes now intensify, Turkey is in...
View ArticleTo Progress and Back: The Rise and Fall of Erdogan’s Turkey
No other state has catapulted itself into the future quite as rapidly, nor relapsed back into its dark past as suddenly, as Turkey. First there was modernization, and now the beginnings of a civil war....
View ArticleAftermath: Ankara Bombings Leave Turkey More Polarized Than Ever
The terrorist attacks in Ankara have deepened Turkey’s political rifts. While President Erdogan is fueling his supporters’ hostility to the pro-Kurdish HDP ahead of snap elections, his opponents accuse...
View ArticleSouthern Flank
Attention was briefly focused on the latest terrorist mass attack on the French Riviera before it was displaced from the front pages by the ongoing coup in Turkey. The fact that France, which has been...
View ArticleThreatening Narcissist
The £400 million palace of Turkey’s President Erdogan is the biggest in the world. It is also a monstrosity. Thirty times the size of the White House, all the seats of government of Turkey’s Nato...
View ArticleNuke Dilemma
The United States runs its air operations against ISIS in Iraq from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. The base, used by other NATO forces as well, is not American. It is Turkish, and the U.S. needs...
View ArticleDark Days Ahead
From the start, it was obvious that this wasn’t like the coups of the past. For one thing, coups are supposed to begin on Saturday, in the dead of night, and there are good, pragmatic reasons for this,...
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