With the growing need for more cooperative relations in the face of Iran’s assertive foreign policy following Saddam’s fall, Turkey’s importance as...

Over the past year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has experienced a period of rapid transformation under the direction of a new Crown Prince,...

This commentary analyzes the factors behind Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the embassy therein,...

Turkey’s membership in the European Union (EU) is contingent on economic, political, and cultural factors. Rather than a geographic area with a...

The Kurdish question in Turkey has a long history which was viewed within the framework of nation building, integration and underdevelopment until...

İn this article we seek to answer three interrelated questions: First, how do the Islamic, national and democratic forces perceive the justice and...

Obama's election represents an important opportunity to put US-Turkish relations on a new, more cooperative footing. On many issues especially...

The Cyprus tragedy of the past and the Iraq predicament of our times bear striking similarities. Cyprus of the 1960s and 1970s is not too far from...

This article discusses Kosovo’s independence from a framework of political and legal perspectives and assesses regional and global responses to the...

This article analyzes the identity dimension of EU-Turkey relations from the constructivist perspective in international relations theory. It...

Minorities have always been the subject of academic, journalistic and popular research in Turkey. The general trend of most of these analyses to...

This article aims to show how exchanges.between religion and secularism, Islam and democracy and cross-cultural relations over many years have...

The Prosecutor of the High Court of Appeals opened a closure case against the ruling AK Party by presenting it as the center of anti-secular...

The Kurdish question has been a source of domestic conflict since the inception of the Turkish Republic. It has been one of the mostly securitized...

In a sharp break from the past, Turkey’s AK Party government now openly accepts the existence of a domestic Kurdish problem, and views it moreover...

This article examines the challenges of Kurdish nationalism within Turkey and of Kurdish nationalist movements emanating from Iraq during the...

This article argues that Turkey's approach towards the Kurds of northern Iraq provides analysts with an opportunity to demonstrate that the...

The establishment of a modern Turkey based on Western political values was a watershed in Turkey's history.

During the long years of the cold war, Turkey's foreign and security policies usually received little attention in the academic literature. Its...

This paper challenges the view that the AKP is an "Islamist Party" and "hardly a democratic opening." It puts forward the argument that the AKP's...

This article, based on a book published by SETA, looks at the attitudes of Turkish people towards what is conceived as the West and Western...

This paper attempts to evaluate the forces behind the Turkish-Greek rapprochement, its prospects and its limitations. In the first part, through an...

This paper attempts to evaluate the forces behind the Turkish-Greek rapprochement, its prospects and its limitations. In the first part, through an...

Despite its unique geographical and cultural position between East and the West, Turkey, throughout its modern history, has followed a...