Relevant to contemporary times when Sharia, generally referred to as Islamic law, has been associated with numerous negative connotations –ranging...

Although many actors, from regional powers to global powers, engage in grand strategy practices, the concept of ‘grand strategy’ is most closely...

This article deconstructs the stated reasons behind the quartet’s blockade on Qatar, including i) Iranian-relations; ii) funding ‘terror;’ iii)...

Cultural diplomacy always links to and often overlaps with soft power and public diplomacy. Thus, the three notions have entered the lexicon of...

In June 2018, after 27 years of negotiations, the governments of Macedonia and Greece signed an agreement to resolve the so-called ‘name dispute’...

The transformation of the discourses of the PKK since the 2000s is placed virtually at the center of Middle East politics as they relate to the...

This paper argues that the factors that induce transcontinental and intercontinental African migration are complex and cannot be reduced to...

Africa has often been the focus of contradictory attention that has oscillated between the labels of a physical obstacle to travel between Europe...

The institutions of “waqfs,” that is foundations, stand before us as an intermediate option between collectivist and individualistic societies....

This issue of Insight Turkey comes with a different format and brings to its readers two different topics that require special attention when we...

Nobody has any doubts that today we are in one of the most critical moments of Turkish-U.S. relations. Nobody can deny the gravity of the situation...

In late 2017, Turkey opened a facility to train the Somali National Army. Routinely described as a military base since, the move has caused...

The system of government in Turkey shifted from a parliamentary to an intrinsic presidential system, in which the president solely employs the...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey emerged as an influential player in the Muslim and ethnically Turkic republics of Central Asia....

This article analyzes the voting patterns in eastern Turkey for the June 24, 2018 elections and examines the cross-sectional and longitudinal...

After two decades of downhill diplomacy, Turkey and Uzbekistan have pledged to deepen bilateral ties in years to come. Given its geopolitical...

On June 24, 2018, two elections that determine Turkey’s future took place. By focusing on the political transformation that shaped the June 24...

During its first two terms (2002-2012), AK Party adopted a range of constitutional democratization reforms connected with the EU accession process...

Over the past fifteen years, nation branding has become a popular subject of study, and a formative enterprise in the creation of national...

This study attempts to analyze the peculiarity of the migration stories of the Muslims in Germany who have emigrated from Turkey. Each of the four...

During the radical economic transformation taking place over the last decades, which is characterized by the decline of the West, Turkey has...

Turkish-American relations are currently witnessing their deepest crisis. Even in 1975 when the U.S. put an arms embargo on Turkey, Ankara had some...

The study of European Islam is now experiencing an unprecedented revival. While most of its attention is dedicated to Islam as a minority in...