Atilla's Musings
Coronavirus has weakened the West’s nationalists
Source:Washington Post Date:22Jul2020
This study of populist-nationalist leaders doesn’t mention Mr Erdogan, but there are plenty of lessons for him to learn. In Western Europe, Trump’s ideological brethren have slumped.
The “Blue Homeland” and Turkey’s new forward defence doctrine
Source:Duvar English Date:25Jun2020
This a socialist criticque of Turkey new forward looking military posture. While I don’t agree with the critical terminolagy used by the author, it is an excellent primer to understand
Turkey’s Changing Media Landscape
Source:Istanbul Policy Center Date:11Jun2020
Despite this heavy censorship, two key trends have undercut President Erdoğan’s efforts to control the media landscape: rising distrust toward the media and increasing fragmentation in the ways
A new Gaza: Turkey’s border policy in northern Syria
Source:European Council on Foreign Relations Date:29May2020
The title doesn’t do justice to this comprehensive account of Turkey’s involvement in Syria, and its real and imaginery reasons. Turkey now controls a long stretch of Syrian territory
Turkey’s Growing Military Expeditionary Posture
Source:Jamestown Foundation Date:16May2020
Turkish Armed Forces are rapidly evolving from a HomelandDefense concept to a frowar posture. Military is als one of the few areas where Turkey demonstrated its innovation capacity. The result is
Turkey Wades into Libya’s Troubled Waters
Source:International Crisis Group Date:02May2020
Turkish intervention in Libya’s war stopped the besieged Tripoli government from collapsing. But fighting with Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s forces has since escalated, threatening a protracted
Resilience in Turkey
Source:CEPA Date:24Apr2020
An article based on solid survey research inspring hope for Turkey’s future by Soner Cagaptay and Deniz Yüksel. His Jacobin top-down social conservatism has proved remarkably
Russia is about to face its biggest test yet in Syria
Source:The Independent Date:16Apr2020
Robert Fisk explains how Syria’s economic woes will test Putin’s resources, bringing in the Turkish angle, too. Turkey’s real problem, of which the Russians are acutely aware,
What to do about the coming debt crisis in developing countries
Source:Brookings papers Date:15Apr2020
This article by Homi Kharas is comprehensive in addressing the dimensions of the debt stress, as well as ingenious in proposing solutions. A must read for EM enthusiasts One indication
How To Make Turkey Great Again – OpEd
Source:Eurasian Review Date:09Apr2020
An op-ed piece by a former diplomat which is suprrisnigly symphatheitc to Turkey. It addresses all the topics that distances the country from the Wst, clogging the domestic dynamics for