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Turkey’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis in the past decade has been laudable on ethical and humanitarian grounds, but it has also posed disquieting challenges in the realms of economics, politics and security, and social and foreign policy. As the country has accepted more refugees than it can treat and hosted them for longer than it can afford, the warm welcome of the

In one of the greatest ironies of modern Turkish politics, a religious office established by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk nearly a century ago has become a powerful torch-bearer of what the secular founder of modern Turkey viewed as the greatest political

In Berlins Kreuzberg district, home to many people of Turkish descent, opinions about Recep Tayyip Erdogan and last weeks failed coup that tried to oust him range from shock to skepticism.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is notorious for slippery dealings with supposed allies whether NATO or the EU. However his greatest perfidy seems now to be directed against Turkey's relationship with Putin's Russia. Over the past two or...

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'Erdo the Madnificent' views his huge turkic world stretching from the Arctic Ocean to Bulgaria, including Central Asia and a third of Russia, with almost twenty regions of the Russian Federation.

In reality, the Grey Wolves movement very much does exist. It has a long history of bloodbaths across Turkey and is now a growing movement across Europe as well as the South Caucasus. This ideology [Turanism, or the Greater Turkish homeland] believes in

After 20 years of rule by the Justice and Development Party, has the influence of the armed forces, who used to intervene directly in running the country, disappeared? The harassment of its former and current personnel indicates that the government’s confidence in the army is far from absolute. When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) won early parliamentary elections in 2002, the arrival in power of this new faction, self-identifying as conservative and democratic, seemed at the time (......

A provocative map of the Turkic-speaking world was given to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last week by his coalition partner and leader of the

The Central Asia region for thousands of years has been the location of endless conflict and Great Power competition as it is a crossroads for East-West trade