Climate Change Threatens Turkey’s Role as a Food Supplier to Europe and the...
By Michaël Tanchum July 18, 2023 The persistence of high food inflation in Turkey belies a deeper problem. Turkish agrifood production cannot adequately cope with increasing water scarcity due to...
View ArticleErdoğan Is Not About to Pivot to the West
By Barçın Yinanç August 17, 2023 It is naïve to expect Turkey to distance itself from Russia. As in the past, Turkish-Russian cooperation will go hand in hand with competition as the two leaders...
View ArticleThe Niger Coup and Turkey’s Military Industrial Complex in Africa
By Michaël Tanchum August 23, 2023 The recent military coup in Niger marks the point of no return for the unraveling of France’s dominant economic and military influence across West Africa....
View ArticleMehmet Şimşek at the Helm: The Impossibility of Reconciling Neoliberal...
By Barış Soydan September 8, 2023 Hailed by markets as the “savior” of the Turkish economy, Mehmet Şimşek has in fact launched policies whose price will be borne by large segments of the...
View ArticlePeace with Armenia Will Further Pan-Turkic Ambitions
By Barçın Yinanç November 9, 2023 A peace settlement in the Caucasus provides a huge window of opportunity for the realization of the Middle Corridor. Turkey needs to strike the right balance in its...
View ArticleCan Turkey Both Stand Up to Israel and Do Business with It?
By Reuben Silverman January 12, 2024 On the eve of Turkey’s centennial anniversary celebrations, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a mass rally in support of Palestine. He reminded his audience that,...
View ArticleCan the New CHP Leader Revive Social Democracy in Turkey?
By Halil Karaveli January 25, 2024 Turkey’s new opposition leader Özgür Özel is proposing to do something that no one has attempted in Turkey since the early 1990s, to revive a social democratic...
View ArticleTurkey and the United States: A Relationship Restored?
By Barçın Yinanç March 11, 2024 The diplomatic traffic between Ankara and Washington on handling Sweden’s NATO entry process is emblematic of the erosion of trust between the two allied countries....
View ArticleNot Condemned to the Authoritarian Right: Turkey’s Local Elections Show the...
By Halil Karaveli April 11, 2024 The historic victory of the social democratic CHP in the March 31 local elections has redrawn Turkey’s political map and overturned established truths about Turkish...
View ArticleLocal Elections Were a Loss for the AKP, Were They a Victory for the Opposition?
By Reuben Silverman April 15, 2024 Turkey’s March 31 local elections upended national politics. As they approached, the question was whether the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) could retain...
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