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Ankara and Mogadishu: An Ideal Relationship for Mutualistic Development?
Over the past five years, state-owned Turkish Airlines has expanded to connect 40 destinations in Sub-Saharan Africa to Istanbul, with...
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Dec 5, 20187 min read


A Bad Influence: Erdogan’s Problematic European Friendships
Throughout his prominence in Turkish politics, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, now the nation’s president, has raised eyebrows more than a few...
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Oct 28, 20185 min read


Erdogan’s Paradox
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seems to have a knack for the unprecedented, a desire to chart his own path and challenge...
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Apr 14, 20177 min read


Steppe by Steppe: Nursultan Nazarbayev and Incremental Systems Change in Kazakhstan
In the wake of Yahya Jammeh’s arrest at the hands of Senegalese forces, Vladimir Putin’s return to one of his alleged favorite pastimes,...
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Feb 24, 20176 min read


It’s Complicated: Germany and Turkey’s troubled free speech relationship
This July, a sea of red flags emboldened with crescent moons swept over a reeling nation. Just two weeks after Turkey’s failed coup...
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Nov 6, 20167 min read


Hydroelectric Fracturing: Erdogan’s infrastructure folly
In a country accustomed to tumult, a single dam is causing ripples of turbulence. Over 60 years in the making, Turkey’s Ilisu Dam’s...
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Nov 6, 20168 min read


The Armenian Genocide as a Precedent
On the eve of the Holocaust, Hitler addressed a gathering of Wehrmacht commanders at his home in Obersalzberg, just a week before the...
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Apr 30, 20166 min read


Turkish Soap Operas: A Voice for the Voiceless
In 2008, some 85 million people in the Arab world tuned in to watch the final episode of the breakthrough Turkish television show Gümüş....
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Oct 28, 20155 min read


Cuffing Turkey’s Courts
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has not endeared himself to his more liberal, reform-minded constituents. Last summer,...
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Apr 30, 20144 min read


Democracy Takes a Beating at Turkish Polls
If voting booths are any indication, Turks are largely unfazed by their leader’s growing authoritarian streak. Despite months of...
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Apr 9, 20146 min read


Turkish Internet Control
Turkish citizens today have not-so-distant memories of government officials and police breaking into their homes, looking under beds and...
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Mar 31, 20147 min read


Europe Goes Cold on Turkey
If the European Union does not want Turkey, then why should we want to be a part of the EU? Such was the refrain of the Roberts College...
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Oct 1, 20136 min read


Syria’s Spinoff Crisis
The crisis you almost forgot is still there. The violence in Syria is suddenly halfway through its third year, with no end in sight. With...
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Jun 27, 20136 min read
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