Turkey Premier Says Expects Justice in U.S., Not Prisoner Swaps

Source:Bloomberg Date:12Nov2017

Yildirim came back from Washington DC empty-handed, as this Bloomberg interview clearly demonstrates. What happens next is described in an Monitor article by economist Mr Mustafa Sonmez: Last

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S-400 Dispute Highlights Ongoing Difficulties in Turkey’s Rapprochement With Russia

Source:The Jamestown Foundation Date:07Nov2017

Many experts argue that Turkey is turning its face away from the west.  This is certainly the intention, but  alternatives prove hard to find.  An imagined Sunni Arab-Turkish  alliance  fractured

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Turkey: Managing Tensions and Options to Engage

Source:Atlantic Council Date:03Nov2017

The trajectory of the relationship suggests a need for the United States to get acquainted with “transactionalism,” wherein the majority of the bilateral talks are simply aimed at managing a

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Stung by secularism, now defending it: A Muslim feminist worries about Erdogan’s ‘new Turkey’

Source:cbcnews Date:03Nov2017

This is a story of how AKP’s authoritarian  Islamism is losing it support: Sonmez worries the conservative government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan — which women like her helped elect — is

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Analysts: Turkey May Pay Heavy Price for Iraqi Kurdish Leader’s Resignation

Source:Voice of America Date:31Oct2017

Be careful what you wish for is the subtitle  of this VoA article, which also quote me. Barzani is gone, but it is too early for Ankara to uncork that celebratory  champaign.  His replacement

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Turkey tightens siege on Afrin

Source:al Monitor Date:31Oct2017

As the sixth round of  Astana peace talks take start,  Ankara realizes it does not benefit from peace in Syria. After  its incursion in Idlip Province, military planners have now set eyes on

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Suspicions over Turkey’s good faith in resolving US visa spat

Source:Hurriyet Daily News Date:28Oct2017

This is by far the most analytical article on the progress of the visa crisis.  Its prognosis is a prolonged standoff. Worse, soon Congress could take the lead in setting the tone of 

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Turkey-US relations locked into a downward spiral

Source:European Council on Foreign Relations Date:28Oct2017

With chaos unfolding in neighboring Iraq and Syria, a fragile economy, and poor relations with neighbouring Europe, the last thing Erdogan needs in the run up to 2019 presidential elections is a

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Hostility Toward Militants Grows in Idlib as Turkey Deploys Troops

Source:Syria Deeply Date:24Oct2017

Residents of Syria’s Idlib province have welcomed Turkey’s latest cross-border campaign and many say they would side against HTS militants if a confrontation were to occur.

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Iraq paramilitaries battle Kurds in push towards Turkish border oil hub

Source:CNBC Date:24Oct2017

Fighting between Kurdish peshmerga an  Shia paramilitaries move closer to Turkish border, the oil pipeline and Turkey’s outpost against PKK, Camp Bashika. For Turkey the Kirkuk  crisis is

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