Posted on Tue, March 27, 2012 at 22:21 pm CEST
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No Escape from Authoritarianism? Turkey Suffers from the Lack of a Constituency for Liberal Change

Turkey’s old habits of state authoritarianism persist under the rule of the AKP… Continue reading

Topics: Culture • Democracy • Kurdish People • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, December 22, 2011 at 19:55 pm CET
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Has Erdogan Reached His “Democratic Limits”?

Internal and external dynamics no longer compel Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to transcend his democratic limits… Continue reading

Topics: Islamism • Kurdish People • Politics • Sunni Islam • Turkey • Turkish Kurdistan 
Posted on Tue, September 6, 2011 at 16:42 pm CEST
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Will the CHP, Turkey’s Main Opposition Party, Ever Become a Relevant Political Alternative?

The Republican People’s Party (CHP), Turkey’s main opposition party, will have to adopt a whole new discourse and appropriate a new political… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Kurdish People • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, August 20, 2011 at 20:23 pm CEST
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Turkey and Syria: a Parting of Ways

The turmoil in Syria threatens to deprive Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party of one of its most significant foreign policy achievements… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Economy • Iran • Kurdish People • PKK • Security and Defense • Syria • Syrian Kurdistan • Turkey • Turkish Kurdistan 
Posted on Fri, July 1, 2011 at 09:21 am CEST
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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

Topics: Democracy • Islamism • Kurdish People • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, June 12, 2011 at 12:07 pm CEST
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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

Topics: Democracy • Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Sat, June 11, 2011 at 16:38 pm CEST
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Turkey’s Election: Last Exit Before Toll

Because Turkey’s election Sunday is of such huge importance, not only for Turkey but for the region as a whole, Western interests, Israel, and… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, May 6, 2011 at 16:46 pm CEST
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The AKP’s Election Manifesto: The Silences That Ring Alarm Bells

In late April 2011, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) announced their manifestos… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Europe • Islamism • Kurdish People • Neo-Ottomanism • Sunni Islam • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, April 14, 2011 at 21:32 pm CEST
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Will Turkey’s Next Constitution be a Societal Covenant Imbued with Respect for Differences?

Agreeing upon the rules for how they are going to live together, with mutual respect for differences, is the fundamental challenge that faces… Continue reading

Topics: Democracy • Human Rights • Islamism • Kurdish People • PKK • Sunni Islam • Turkey 
Posted on Wed, April 6, 2011 at 00:53 am CEST
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Turkey’s Opposition Turns Social Democratic: Will the Turks Follow?

While the Turkish Justice and Development Party’s (AKP’s) record on democracy and foreign policy is less than perfectly in… Continue reading

Topics: Europe • Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Sun, March 27, 2011 at 13:45 pm CEST
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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: “We Need to Hinder the Despotic Ambitions of AKP”

In this exclusive interview for Turkish Policy Quarterly, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu outlines his views and his Party’s position on the pressing foreign policy choices Turkey faces… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Arab Spring • Arab-Israeli Conflict • Cyprus • Islamism • NATO • The Middle East • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, February 24, 2011 at 14:10 pm CET
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Turkey’s Polarized Climate Complicates Efforts to Deal with Past and Present Authoritarianism

In the deeply polarized climate that pervades Turkish society, it has become near-impossible to stake out an ideological terrain that… Continue reading

Topics: Ergenekon • Turkey 
Posted on Fri, August 6, 2010 at 15:33 pm CEST
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The Scary European Model

There has been speculation about where Turkey is heading ever since the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002… Continue reading

Topics: Europe • Islamism • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, June 14, 2010 at 19:40 pm CEST
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Erdogan’s Turkey, Islamism and the Ottoman Empire

Under the Islamist Erdogan government, Turkey can no longer be considered an ally of Israel or the West… Continue reading

Topics: Europe • Global Islam • Islamism • Israel • The Middle East • Turkey • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, June 9, 2010 at 14:08 pm CEST
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Turkish Government involved in the Gaza Flotilla

According to some people who are in a position to know: Erdoğan assured Israel that the ship’s passengers were peaceful and there would be no violence. That’s why Israel approached taking and diverting the ship in the manner it did. Is this true? I don’t know but it is definitely a story to… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Zionism • Gaza and Westbank • Gaza Flotillas and Convoys • Islamism • Israel • Israel Defense Forces • Turkey