Russia & Turkey: Putin and Erdoğan Make Up in Istanbul, To a Point
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are...
Dorian Jones Oct 11, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are...
The recent failed military coup in Istanbul is pushing the Turkish government...
After talking a blue streak about using the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Kurdish rebels’ “game-changing” downing of a Turkish attack helicopter with a Russian-made...
Members of the small ethnic Armenian community in Turkey are feeling increasingly...
The enmity that has been building between Turkey and Russia is spilling...
A long history of mutual enmity is exacerbating tension between Turkey and...
With Russian-Turkish relations bottoming out after Turkey’s downing of a Russian military...
Amid the free-fall in Russian-Turkish relations, Moscow seems ready to exploit Turkey’s...
The dogged feud between Turkey and Russia is threatening to resurrect an...
Propaganda about ISIS oil has become Moscow’s tactical weapon of choice in...
Three days after Turkey’s November 24 downing of a Russian fighter jet,...
Russia’s entry into the Syrian conflict is upsetting Turkey’s diplomatic ambitions. Russian...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s state visit to China later this month...
The results of Turkey’s June 7 parliamentary elections denied a majority to...
In a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit, a branch of the Armenian Apostolic Church...
The upcoming 100th anniversary of the Medz Yeghern, or the “Great Catastrophe,”...
The deepening crisis in Ukraine is boosting Turkey’s decade-long efforts to establish itself...
Energy-poor Turkey stands to benefit from Moscow’s surprise decision to drop the...
For weeks, idle Turkish tanks have been watching from the hills in...
From Cannes to Venice, Turkish filmmakers this year h...
With Ukraine and the Middle East currently engulfed in turmoil, Turkey is...
A year after challenging Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s iron grip...
With presidential elections just three months away, Turkey’s May-13 Soma mine disaster,...
As noted in a recent post on this blog, Russia's moves regarding...
The deepening Ukrainian crisis is placing Turkey in a difficult diplomatic position....
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s apparent landslide victory in Turkey’s recent local...
The Russian-Ukrainian crisis over Crimea is forcing Turkey into a delicate balancing...
As Eurasianet's Dorian Jones pointed out in a recent article, in response...
Facing bouts of civil unrest, corruption probes and growing financial and economic...
Cyberspace is becoming a key battleground in a political struggle in Turkey...
The escalating turmoil over corruption allegations against Turkey’s political elite is now...
A recently restored 13th-century church has become a focal point for ethnic...
A senior Turkish minister’s call to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia from a...
Whether or not students of the opposite sex should live together is...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan proudly describes Istanbul’s newly opened Marmaray...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described his recent “democratization package” of...
Turkish soccer fans are taking the lead in İstanbul’s anti-government protests, effectively...
In June, Turkey experienced the worst anti-government protests in decades over plans...
With anti-government protests in Turkey showing no signs of subsiding, Prime Minister...
In Turkey, a solution to a two-week-long standoff between the government and...
Mass media and social networks have emerged as fault lines in Turkey’s...
In his EurasiaNet article today, my colleague Dorian Jones argues convincingly that...
Having tripled the size of its economy over the past decade, Turkey...
For generations, schoolchildren in Turkey learned that “every Turk is a soldier.”...
The focus of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s May 16 talks...
Turkey's Ministry of Culture is playing hardball with some of the world’s...
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which concludes August 18, can be...
In a display of muscle-flexing, Turkish tanks this week carried out military...
One of the defining achievements of Justice and Development Party’s tenure in...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's expressed desire to create a more...
As Islam takes on a more visible public profile in Turkey, academia...
Turkey’s government is embroiled in a bitter dispute with secular-minded actors over...
For most of its 60 years as a member of the North...
Social media has been a boon for democratization forces around the world,...
More than a decade in the making, Istanbul’s Museum of Innocence, the...
The last time that Turkey sought to mediate between Iran and the...
An unofficial Turkish parliamentary investigation into physical and sexual abuse of Kurdish...
ISTANBUL -- After the formation of the Turkish secular state on the...
Turkey may be seen by many in the Middle East as a...
A critically acclaimed film in Turkey about the murder of a gay...
Almost a week after the conclusion of a trial concerning the murder...
With an annual gay pride march planned for this weekend and a...
After retaining control of parliament with nearly 50 percent of the vote,...
Turkey’s June 12 general election saw the pro-Kurdish movement score its biggest-ever...
Tens of thousands of Kurds are taking part in an increasingly potent...
With just weeks to go before Turkey’s June 12 parliamentary vote, discontent...
When Apple’s iPad went on sale recently in Turkey it sold out...
As Turkey gears up for a general election in June, the government...
In one of Istanbul's numerous chic cafes in the central Beyoglu district,...
Political passions in Turkey are rising as Ankara becomes more assertive in...
When Turkish rail workers began construction on a tunnel that would connect...