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Turkey’s Creeping Islamization
in TurkeyWhile Western diplomats persist in calling Turkey a “model,” Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) continues to tweak relatively minor rules to […]
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AS HE LAY DYING by Cem Ryan
in Cem RyanAs he lay dying in those autumn afternoons of 1938, Atatürk had one abiding desire. He longed for those distant days on horseback, just one more afternoon riding in the hills above the Bosphorus. He would go again with his military academy classmate, Ali Fuat, to the sultan’s hunting lodge in Alemdağ. They would once…
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Turkey: Modern Assertiveness in a Globalized World
in WorldAri Katz Turkey is a predominantly Sunni Muslim, ethnically Turkish country with a Kurdish minority. Its role in several ongoing geopolitical sagas, its increasingly public […]
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General Asymmetrica Rhymes With America
“Probes are ‘asymmetric, psychological,’ says ex-army chief” shouted the headline in the Hurriyet Daily News, another media mouthpiece of the Turkish government, this one for […]
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Janus-faced Turkey’s Syria Challenge
in SyriaJanus-faced Turkey’s Syria Challenge Niklas Anzinger: Turkey’s success story of combining moderate Islam and democracy is being challenged by the ruling AK Party’s power grab. […]
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… nation at a crossroads
in TurkeyLetter from Turkey … nation at a crossroads HORIZONS BY DR.JAVID IQBAL An aerial view, as the aircraft descends for a landing at Istanbul’s Ata […]