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  • 27 Jan 2023
    • Central Asia
    • Caucasus
    • Russia
    • Turkey

    How Russia loses allies amid the war in Ukraine

    Nikola Mikovic
    Setbacks in the Kremlin’s campaign are causing regional supporters to think twice about the Eurasian military alliance.
  • 3 Aug 2022
    • Russia
    • Turkey

    Russia and Turkey: Sometimes strongmen need to get along

    Ian Hill
    Putin and Erdoğan have forgiven all manner of friendship-breaking behaviour to retain their power in Eurasia.
  • 28 Jun 2022
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Syria
    • Turkey

    How Turkey’s position on Ukraine is further destabilising Syria

    Samy Akil , Alexander Langlois
    Erdoğan wants sanctions relief and is forcing NATO leaders into making an uncomfortable choice.
  • 9 May 2022
    • Syria
    • Russia
    • Turkey
    • Ukraine

    Turkey’s leverage over Russia – in Syria and beyond

    Nikola Mikovic
    Ankara and Moscow are in an unusual power play where the Kremlin turns a blind eye to actions that aid its adversaries.
  • 7 Apr 2022
    • Russia
    • Turkey
    • Ukraine

    Turkey plays the dance of the go-betweens in Ukraine war

    Marcus Colla
    Ankara is perfectly placed to mediate between Kyiv and Moscow, and recoup some credibility with NATO at the same time.
  • 10 Dec 2021
    • Turkey

    Erdoǧan loses his way

    William Gourlay
    As Turkey’s economy falters, its strongman president is falling in the polls – the implications may be far reaching.
  • 6 Sep 2021
    • Afghanistan War
    • Afghanistan
    • Turkey

    Turbulence, the Taliban, and Turkey’s role in Afghanistan’s future

    Iain MacGillivray
    A role supporting operations at Kabul airport looks to offer Recep Tayyip Erdoğan more risks than rewards.
  • 21 May 2021
    • Middle East Conflict
    • United Arab Emirates
    • Turkey
    • Qatar
    • Israel

    The challenge to the Abraham Accords

    Rodger Shanahan
    A reckoning over the Palestinian issue was always coming for those countries that normalised ties with Israel.
  • 30 Apr 2021
    • United States
    • Turkey

    Telephone diplomacy: Joe Biden signals a new approach towards Turkey

    William Gourlay
    In acknowledging the Armenian genocide, the US president has created waves with a long-standing ally.
  • 19 Nov 2020
    • Russia
    • Turkey
    • Caucasus

    Nagorno-Karabakh: Peace – for now

    Ian Hill
    Anger and humiliation at their defeat means Armenia will see this conflict very much as unfinished business.
  • 16 Oct 2020
    • Iran
    • Russia
    • Turkey
    • Israel
    • Caucasus

    The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Increasingly deadly and destabilising  

    Marianne Hanson
    An eruption of bitter fighting in a seemingly intractable conflict is aggravating wider regional tensions.
  • 4 Sep 2020
    • Middle East
    • Turkey
    • Africa

    What is Turkey’s endgame in Libya?

    Iain MacGillivray
    Erdoğan’s strategy in Libya is about domestic legitimacy as much as regional projection – but past failures hang heavy.
  • 26 Aug 2020
    • The Americas
    • Diplomacy
    • Australia
    • Indonesia
    • South Korea
    • Turkey

    Where next for MIKTA?

    Jeffrey Robertson
    Tacking the problems created by Covid-19 appear to be beyond this particular example of middle-power activism.
  • 19 Aug 2020
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • China
    • Pakistan
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Turkey
    • Malaysia

    As Pakistan and Saudi Arabia drift apart, China moves in

    Syed Fazl-e-Haider
    A growing schism between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan points to new alliances in the Muslim world.
  • 17 Aug 2020
    • Middle East
    • United States
    • Iran
    • United Arab Emirates
    • Turkey
    • Qatar
    • Israel

    The essence of timing in politics

    Rodger Shanahan
    The UAE earned goodwill for a deal with Israel, but the US is still struggling to win backers for its hard line on Iran.
  • 27 Jul 2020
    • Diplomacy
    • Middle East
    • European Union
    • Turkey
    • United States

    Turkey: Not a team player

    Rodger Shanahan
    A nationalist bent at home and provocations abroad have frayed ties with Europe, and maybe soon the US, too.
  • 9 Jul 2020
    • Middle East
    • Syria
    • Iran
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Yemen
    • Turkey
    • Israel

    Cashing in the chips at the Trump casino

    Rodger Shanahan
    The prospect of a Biden administration has pro-US leaders in the Middle East seeking to keep their political “winnings”.
  • 5 Mar 2020
    • Syria
    • European Union
    • Turkey
    • Coronavirus

    Europe under threat

    Daniel Woker
    Yes, by coronavirus, but also by fighting in Syria and Libya. Can the EU react adequately? What will Brexit Britain do?
  • 3 Mar 2020
    • Syria
    • Turkey

    Syria: The battlefield rules

    Rodger Shanahan
    Every action prompts a reaction, as a success for Assad forces an angry response from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey.
  • 20 Nov 2019
    • United States
    • Turkey

    Erdoğan’s treachery can’t sway Trump’s affections

    Lauren Williams
    Despite Turkey’s glaring betrayals, the US president gave Recep Erdoğan a glowing welcome last week in Washington.
  • 28 Oct 2019
    • Global Issues
    • Syria
    • Kurdistan
    • Turkey

    The worrying precedent of Turkey’s “safe zone”

    Rebecca Barber
    Under international law, one country cannot invade another to seize territory – yet that appears to have been endorsed.
  • 14 Oct 2019
    • Syria
    • Turkey

    Turkey’s “safe zone” may prove costly

    Xiaoli Guo
    In Ankara’s view, the intervention in Syria has been a diplomatic and military success, but an economic risk looms.
  • 21 Mar 2019
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Turkey

    Australia-Turkey: Erdogan’s bitter legacy in present-day history

    Daniel Flitton
    The intemperate outburst over Christchurch is more a product of Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
  • 29 Oct 2018
    • United States
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Turkey

    Jamal Khashoggi: shifting law in a deadly turf war

    Melinda Rankin
    The journalist’s death illustrates broader anxieties for the international rule of law and the fate of the global order.
  • 18 Oct 2018
    • China
    • Turkey
    • Malaysia

    Mahathir: Uighurs “have done nothing wrong”

    Elliot Brennan
    Countries are struggling to navigate the issues – trying to please Beijing, the Uighurs, and respect human rights.
  • 14 Sep 2018
    • Turkey

    Conspiracy and cronyism: Turkey’s economic spiral

    John Lechner , Aykan Erdemir
    Making sense of the Turkish economy means delving into the way Recep Tayyip Erdogan views the world.
  • 16 Jul 2018
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Turkey

    Turkey must be thinking of the Bomb

    Wayne McLean
    While NATO wobbles and strongmen prosper, a newly authoritarian Turkey might turn towards nuclear options.
  • 7 May 2018
    • Russia
    • Turkey

    How political crisis in Armenia could upset Russia and Turkey in Syria

    Luke Dawes
    The future of a fragile ceasefire over an unresolved conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh could in turn have broad strategic implications.
  • 23 Jan 2018
    • Syria
    • The Trump Presidency
    • Kurdistan
    • Turkey

    Washington's weak hand to play in Syria

    Rodger Shanahan
    US policy in Syria is full of holes without a strategic plan for once the mission to defeat ISIS concludes.
  • 22 Jan 2018
    • Turkey

    Erdogan’s outbursts symbolic of Turkey’s decline

    Wayne McLean
    Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan did not mince his words after news of a US-backed Syrian Border Defence Force.
  • 30 Oct 2017
    • China
    • Turkey

    The move to one-man rule in China and beyond

    Erica Frantz , Andrea Kendall-Taylor
    Personalist dictatorship – in which leaders face few constraints on their decision-making – is on the rise and part of a changing face of authoritarianism in the post-Cold War era.
  • 27 Oct 2017
    • Syria
    • Iraq
    • Kurdistan
    • Turkey

    Kurds aren’t always the good guys

    Rodger Shanahan
    Foreign fighters who join armed Kurdish groups become hostage to their political agenda.
  • 12 Sep 2017
    • European Union
    • Turkey

    Turkey’s EU accession: A useful fiction

    Marcus Colla
    Terminating the talks completely would be an enormous betrayal of the many pro-European Turks who have placed great hope in the EU to curb abuses in Turkey.
  • 18 May 2017
    • Middle East
    • The Trump Presidency
    • Kurdistan
    • Turkey

    Erdogan leaves Trump empty-handed

    Lauren Williams
    Erdogan was forced to concede on almost everything, even withstanding Trump’s repeated mispronunciation of his name during the press conference.
  • 18 Apr 2017
    • Turkey

    Turkey's democracy was already dead

    Lauren Williams
    Turkey’s democracy didn’t die on Sunday; it was already dead. Now the country must live with a democratically-elected dictator.
  • 29 Mar 2017
    • European Union
    • Turkey

    How Erdogan makes EU opprobrium work in his favour

    Ihsan Yilmaz
    Turkey's president Recep Erdogan wants to position the EU as the new (imagined) enemy of the nation
  • 6 Feb 2017
    • Europe
    • Turkey

    Merkel's Faustian bargain with Erdogan

    Marcus Colla
    If Merkel believes she can employ soft power, diplomacy and compromise to reverse Erdogan’s tide, she is sadly mistaken.
  • 20 Dec 2016
    • Russia
    • Turkey

    Quick comment: Matthew Dal Santo on Russia-Turkey relations and the Karlov assassination

  • 15 Dec 2016
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Turkey

    EU-Turkey relations: A decade of reversals

    Ihsan Yilmaz
    The EU’s prestige, normative standards and soft power have been relentlessly eroded by the Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
  • 8 Aug 2016
    • Turkey

    Confronting Turkey: The looming challenge for the West

    Daniel Woker
  • 25 Jul 2016
    • Syria
    • Turkey

    Syrians between a rock and a hard place on Turkey coup

    Lauren Williams
  • 19 Jul 2016
    • Turkey

    Major political change on the horizon for Turkey

    Wayne McLean
  • 7 Jul 2016
    • Turkey

    Reset: Why Erdogan is mending (some) fences

    Mehmet Ilhan
  • 1 Jul 2016
    • Kurdistan
    • Turkey

    Turkey: Erdogan's focus on Kurdish threat no longer flies

    Lauren Williams
  • 12 May 2016
    • Turkey

    Turkey: Erdogan poised for triumph in feud with PM

    Wayne McLean
  • 18 Apr 2016
    • Egypt
    • Indonesia
    • Turkey

    Quick comment: Indonesian students in Egypt and Turkey

    Emma Connors
  • 21 Mar 2016
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Turkey

    EU-Turkey deal: Coming to terms with the 'appification' of migration

    Marie McAuliffe

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