Sources of Turkey’s Current Assertive Foreign Policy in MENA
Three factors explain Turkey’s assertive and seemingly unstoppable foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Erdogan’s strong-fisted leadership style, the deteriorat…
Read Moreby Ali Demirdas | Feb 17, 2020
Three factors explain Turkey’s assertive and seemingly unstoppable foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa: Erdogan’s strong-fisted leadership style, the deteriorat…
Read Moreby Ali Demirdas | Dec 20, 2019
Today, Turkey and the United States seem more like foes than traditional NATO allies, particularly after Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring. Seventy years of history beginning wi…
Read Moreby Ali Demirdas | Nov 14, 2019
The civil war, the spread of DAESH, and the subsequent Russian and American bombings of Raqqa, Aleppo, and Homs in Syria have created a refugee situation whose repercussions a…
Read Moreby Ali Demirdas | Oct 22, 2019
The recent attacks on Saudi Aramco highlighted America’s increasing inability to control policy outcomes, all the while revealing Russia’s ascension to the role as a power bro…
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