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A Day in the Life of the Middle East: Egypt, Islamist Terrorism, Libya, Turkey

Where’s the outrage? Where’s the policy shift?… Continue reading

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Obama Administration New Achievement: Messing Up Turkey, Syria, and Libya Within 24 Hours

It’s truly amazing that literally every day the Obama Administration finds a new way to mess up the Middle East… Continue reading

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A Different Path: Assessing Turkey’s Foreign Policy in Latin America

Never before have Turkey and Latin America been closer than they are at present… Continue reading

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Turkey Faces Difficult Challenges in a Volatile Foreign Policy Environment

Foreign and defense policies did not figure prominently in the recent general election in Turkey… Continue reading

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The Mediterranean Sea and Its Relationship to Cyprus: A Study of a Mediterranean Island to the Ottoman Empire

The Mediterranean islands, particularly Cyprus, proved invaluable to the expansion for the Ottoman Empire… Continue reading

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Turkey’s “First Christian”

Amidst news of Turkey’s political turmoil — a parliamentary boycott led by the main opposition party has overshadowed… Continue reading

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Israel, Greece, Turkey join hands to stall Gaza flotilla

The 350 activists left of the 1,500 activists originally planning to sail nine boats against Israel’s naval blockade on Gaza… Continue reading

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Tough Times Ahead in Search of Turkey’s New Soul

Polarizing the society over religious and cultural identities has been the power tactic of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) almost all along… Continue reading

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Fading Hopes, Rising Demands: Kurdish Problem Moves Closer To the Point of No Return

In the general election of June 12, 2011, candidates backed by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) won 36 seats in Turkey… Continue reading

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Israel’s Strategic Standpoint: Mid-2011 and Mid-“Arab Spring”

There are two types of strategic perspectives in Israel today. They aren’t contradictory but they have different priorities… Continue reading

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Turkey renews strategic ties with Israel ahead of showdown with Syria

After more than a year of strained relations, Turkey has decided to restore military and intelligence collaboration in the eastern Mediterranean with Israel… Continue reading

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Look Who Wants to lead the Middle East!

In the absence of U.S. leadership, others want to direct the Middle East… Continue reading

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A Divisive Campaign in a Polarized Turkey

The June 12 general election was historic as it was the first general election in Turkey over which the shadow of the military… Continue reading

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Lebanon’s Radical pro-Iranian and pro-Syrian New Government

After five months of political stagnation, Lebanon has a new government… Continue reading

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Flotilla Activists Received Nonviolent Resistance Training; Hard Violence against the IDF can be Expected

The organizers of Freedom Flotilla 2 have repeatedly emphasized its purportedly humanitarian character and their commitment to… Continue reading

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Turkey’s Urbanization: The Secret Behind AKP’s Third Consecutive Electoral Success

At 12 June’s general election, Turkey’s governing Justice and Development party (AKP) pulled off a rare political hat trick… Continue reading

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Turkish Election: Voter Fraud?

Daniel Pipes wrote an article asking if the June 2011 election would be the last free and fair election in Turkey… Continue reading

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Turkish Military High Command, Armed Forces Takes A Step Toward Islamism

Compare the election results from voters in the Turkish army general staff to that of the overall population… Continue reading

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The Outcome of the Turkish Election: Exclusive Report From Istanbul

This assessment is a bit more optimistic than mine, suggesting ways to limit the new government’s power… Continue reading

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Iranian Delegation shows solidarity with the “Marmara Shaheeds” and Freedom Flotilla 2 to Gaza

An Iranian delegation participated in events held by the IHH in Istanbul on the anniversary of the Marmara flotilla… Continue reading

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Turkey’s Election: An Islamist Revolution

By the end of 2011 more than 250 million people in the Middle East may well be living under what are in reality anti-American Islamist governments… Continue reading

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Turkish Election: Islamism Triumphant

The AKP got almost everything it wanted. It will be in power for four more years, infiltrating institutions, producing a new constitution… Continue reading

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Is the Battle of Jisr a-Shughour the tipping-point of the uprising against Bashar Assad?

It took Syrian president six days to send troops and tanks to punish the small northern town of Jisr a-Shughour near the Turkish border… Continue reading

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Erdogan headed for significant Win as Turks cast Votes

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is expected to return to office for a third consecutive term as Turks began voting… Continue reading

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Turkey’s June 12 Elections

This Sunday, Turks go to the polls for parliamentary elections that will determine their next government… Continue reading