Geopolitics
Cihan Tugal – Erdoğan’s Syria?
Turkey has clearly won a geopolitical victory, but fantasies about a Turkish takeover are overblown. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
Turkey
Geopolitics
Mustafa Kutlay: Why does Turkey want to join BRICS – and what will the trade-offs be?
Turkey is seeking a “multi-alignment” strategy as Western hegemony weakens. Mustafa Kutlay is a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London. He works on the political economy and foreign policy of Turkey, as well as […]
Geopolitics
Mehmet Ozkan – How Turkey is gaining a foothold in West Africa
Turkey is moving into the Sahel region, while the United States and France are being forced out. Mehmet Ozkan is Professor of international relations at Turkish National Defence University in Istanbul. Cross-posted from Middle East […]
EU politics
Anna Matveeva – Nagorno-Karabakh: crisis in the Caucasus could destabilise the whole of Eurasia
In three days, nearly 30,000 Armenians have fleed Nagorno-Karabakh, with the Armenian President among those they are most angry with. Anna Matveeva is visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London. Cross-posted from […]
EU politics
Al Jazeera: Turkey’s Erdogan defies pressure over Sweden’s NATO application
Erdogan continues to play hardball even after his election victory. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Reuters: Lira plunges more than 7% as Turkey edges towards free market
Erdogan seems to be responding to his election victory by retreating towards more ‘orthodox’ macroeconomic policies. Read the article HERE.
National Politics
Cihan Tuğal: Erdoğan’s Resilience
Erdoğan was re-elected in the Turkish presidential run-off because of his opponent’s “limp and uninspiring programme”, which sought to return Turkey to a past that is gone. In New Left Review’s Sidecar. Read the article […]
National Politics
Conor Gallagher: What does Erdogan’s re-election mean for the new cold war?
The Turkish President won the election run-off on Sunday and now the US and EU will have to work out what to do with Nato’s disobedient member. Cross-posted from Other News Turkish President Recep Tayyip […]
National Politics
Salih Yusan: Turkey’s presidential election – how Erdoğan defied the polls to head into runoff as favourite
Analysis of why President Erdoğan did better than polls predicted in the first round, and why the opposition leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, underperformed. Cross-posted from The Conversation Europe Salih Yusan is an expert on Turkish politics […]
EU politics
Devriş Çimen: In Turkey, the Fight for Democracy Isn’t Over
Turkey’s elections on Sunday brought incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the cusp of another term in office. But he now faces a runoff vote, in which prodemocratic and Kurdish forces can still inflict a historic […]