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The View from Beijing: Growing Chinese Enthusiasm over Turkey

Chinese analysts have been pleasantly surprised by the stupendous growth in their cultural, economic, and political ties with Turkey… Continue reading

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Prime Minister Erdogan Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

Israel should realize that it is not possible to sustain the state of perpetual conflict and confrontation… Continue reading

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Obama Administration Sponsors the Sponsors of Anti-American Terrorism

Is there any sponsor of anti-American terrorism in the Middle East that the Obama Administration hasn’t tried to sponsor… Continue reading

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Turkish-Israeli Relations: Empty Threats or a Looming Crisis?

The rapprochement between Turkey and Israel during the 1990s was primarily driven by Turkey’s secular elite… Continue reading

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Abbas to go through with UN Statehood Bid

Thursday, Sept. 15, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas went back on his assurance 24 hours earlier to… Continue reading

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A Sectarian Issue

As Gaddafi’s regime crumbles, speculation has started to arise over whether the Syrian opposition will now be emboldened in their struggle against Assad… Continue reading

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Erdogan drives toward armed clash with Israel

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan this week coolly moved his country step by provocative step towards an armed clash with Israel… Continue reading

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Warmongering Turkey trying to intimidate Cyprus as well

Tensions are not only mounting between Israel and Turkey since the release of the UN Palmer report… Continue reading

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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

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Israel’s Strategic Situation: Plenty to Worry About But Little to Fear

Since much of what I write about regional politics seems pessimistic… Continue reading

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Erdogan’s War: Will Turkey’s Most Powerful Leader Since Ataturk Succeed in Securing the Country’s Unity?

Attacks carried out by Kurdish separatists since mid-July have set Turkey on the road to war… Continue reading

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Turkish Regime to Israel; Obama White House to Real Middle East Moderates: Drop Dead

It seems to be a secret mainly to the White House and most of the Western mass media that Turkey is being turned into a police state… Continue reading

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Turkey maligns Israel to freeze the IDF out of the US anti-Iran missile shield

Turkey has run into two obstacles in its two-year campaign to destroy Israel’s good name and squeeze it into a corner… Continue reading

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Beyond Memory and Imagination: Civil-Military Relations and Turkey’s New Authoritarianism

The resignations on July 29, 2011, of the Turkish chief of staff and all three force commanders are without precedent in… Continue reading

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The perils of a remilitarized Sinai

Will the Egyptian military be permitted to remilitarize the Sinai… Continue reading

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What’s REALLY Happening in the Middle East Today

A few hours ago I wrote that the Egyptian military government reportedly told Israel that a major Israeli offensive… Continue reading

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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

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Instant obsolescence of the Turkish model

With the Turkish lira in free-fall, Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks less like a prospective Ottoman caliph than a garden-variety Third World strongman… Continue reading

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Obama and Erdogan grant Assad 15 days to finish Syrian Uprising

Thursday night, Aug. 11, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed to set Syrian… Continue reading

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The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the… Continue reading

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Turkey: Two More Steps Toward Islamism

In Washington DC they are still ridiculing the idea that Turkey’s government is Islamist… Continue reading

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The Campaign to Panic Israel Into a Bad Strategy

Israel must rush to help create a Palestinian state as fast as possible in order to protect its own security… Continue reading

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A Lebanese Town’s Dilemma Teaches about Islam, Freedom, and the Future of Europe

So consider the south Lebanese town of Hula… Continue reading

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Obama’s Only Policy

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has explained repeatedly over the years that Israel has no Palestinian partner to negotiate with… Continue reading

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Syria: The Orontes River runs red

Horrifying images of bodies and limbs floating in the Orontes River in Hama were aired by Syrian state television early Thursday… Continue reading