The choreography in Ankara last week was impressive, even by Recep Tayyip Erdogan's standards. Cannons fired, mounted honor guards paraded, and jets flew overhead trailing red, white, and blue smoke a...

Turkey’s decade-long standoff with Washington over the S-400 may finally be nearing an inflection point, though not in the tidy way Ankara once imagined, and not without a fresh dose of frustration...

President Trump and European leaders kept their attention focused elsewhere even as Turkey fills its jails with critics and opposition figures.

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Israel’s Shin Bet security agency announced that it had foiled dozens of planned terror attacks in the West Bank directed by Hamas operatives in Turkey over the past year. According to the agency,...

NATO leaders must make it clear to Turkey that it cannot be a NATO member and pursue a foreign policy that undermines the alliance.

A court ruling targeting the CHP shows how Turkey's institutions now serve power rather than democratic change.

In April 1960, Turkey’s second president, Ismet Inonu, and leader of the founding Republican People’s Party (CHP), issued a stern warning to the ruling Democrat Party (DP): Now, the revolution...

Excerpt Turkey’s use of private military actors has become an increasingly important—if opaque —feature of its foreign policy toolkit. Among these, SADAT International Defense Consultancy stands...

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack raised eyebrows last weekend at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum when he stated, “Turkey is not a country to be messed with,” –– a remark intended to blame Israel...

Turkey’s growing regional influence and ties to Hamas challenge NATO and US security.

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Turkey’s President Erdogan is optimistic that Trump will be an easier partner than Biden. He may be disappointed.

Turkey takes U.S. aid, dodges U.S. asks, and still wants F-35s. If Trump wants NATO reciprocity, Ankara is the place to start.

As Iranian missiles enter Turkish airspace, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must define Ankara's red lines to balance national security and political stability.

Sinan Ciddi, Elisa Ewers, Lisel Hintz, and Henri Barkey join Thanos Davelis this week as we take a closer look at Turkey’s decision to deploy fighter jets to the occupied part of Cyprus, Israel’s esca...

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The Turkish state-owned lender Halkbank has served as a conduit for illicit Iranian financing networks. It was indicted in the U.S. in 2019 for one of the largest sanctions-evasion...

Turkey views Iran’s sizable Kurdish population as a potential threat to Turkey’s internal unity.

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After years of serving as a key transit hub for foreign fighters and an enabler of the Islamic State’s (ISIS’s) campaign to establish a caliphate, Turkey is now in negotiations to repatriate its own.....

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is laying the groundwork for a dynastic succession—and disposing of democratic institutions that might obstruct it.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan warned on February 9 that Ankara may pursue nuclear weapons if Iran acquires them, signaling a potential shift from rhetorical grievance to a conditional prolifera...

Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler could not have been blunter. “We have no agenda for withdrawing or leaving those areas,” Guler told the Turkish daily Hurriyet when asked whether Turkey...

The diplomatic tug-of-war over US-Iran negotiations is a win for Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Islamist strongman, who has led a cynical campaign to block military action against Tehran.

The Turkish government is failing to hold the Iranian regime responsible for massacring its own people.

Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro long had a friend in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In addition to diplomatic cover, under the Turkish leader, the regime in Caracas received an economic life...

Given the two nations' uniquely poor records on counterterrorism and regional aggression, the Ankara-Islamabad ties warrant concern.

A new “axis of evil” has arisen in the eastern Mediterranean Sea — at least according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slavish media. The sharp reaction was brought about by a trilateral...

The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has provided an unexpected sanctions evasion lifeline for Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela.

The Israeli military and Shin Bet reported on a Hamas financial network operating in Turkey under direct Iranian supervision and moving hundreds of millions of dollars through Turkish-based money chan...

The US and NATO need to stand up for what remains of Turkey’s democracy.

Approving the sale of Eurofighters to Turkey may have had good optics. but it undermines NATO's collective security, argues Sinan Ciddi from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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