Türkiye

Turkey’s EU accession: A useful fiction
Turkey’s EU accession: A useful fiction
By any measure, the German Chancellor debate between Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz last weekend was a dispiriting, monotonous affair. On irrelevant issue after irrelevant issue,…
Erdogan leaves Trump empty-handed
Erdogan leaves Trump empty-handed
The language at the press conference following their meeting earlier this week may have been conciliatory, but there is no masking the tensions between US President Donald Trump…
Turkey's democracy was already dead
Turkey's democracy was already dead
In a result that surprised just about no one, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has gained a 'Yes' vote in the weekend referendum, granting him sweeping new executive powers…
How Erdogan makes EU opprobrium work in his favour
How Erdogan makes EU opprobrium work in his favour
The recent standoff between Turkey and several European countries shocked the world. For the first time in NATO and EU history, a member (or member candidate, in the case of…
Merkel's Faustian bargain with Erdogan
Merkel's Faustian bargain with Erdogan
Angela Merkel’s visit to Turkey last week was met with wide-ranging scepticism. It was the German Chancellor’s first visit since the failed coup of July 2016, to which…
Quick comment: Matthew Dal Santo on Russia-Turkey relations and the Karlov assassination
Quick comment: Matthew Dal Santo on Russia-Turkey relations and the Karlov assassination
In this quick comment, Russian scholar Matthew Dal Santo looks at how Russia-Turkey relations have changed in the last 12 months and why the shooting death of Russia's ambassador…
EU-Turkey relations: A decade of reversals
EU-Turkey relations: A decade of reversals
After the European parliament’s overwhelming vote to freeze Turkey’s EU accession process, the European Council summit that will get underway later today in Brussels will debate…
Confronting Turkey: The looming challenge for the West
Turkey’s relations with its Western allies and partners, with the lone exception of Netanyahu’s Israel, are on a steep slide towards open hostility. Millions of first and second…
Syrians between a rock and a hard place on Turkey coup
Mohammed — not his real name — is a Syrian opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad. In 2013, he fled to Turkey with his young family. A little over a week ago, he among the…
Major political change on the horizon for Turkey
In one poorly organised show of lukewarm force, Turkey’s failed coup plotters have provided President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the catalyst for major political change.  For…