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Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Zero Problems with Neighbors Revisited

Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Zero Problems with Neighbors Revisited

We can only hope that Turkey stays the Davutoglu course, pursuing every opening that enables positive mutual relations among countries and using its diplomatic stature to encourage peaceful conflict resolution…

Healing Wounds: Seeking Closure for the 1915 Armenian Massacres

Healing Wounds: Seeking Closure for the 1915 Armenian Massacres

A politics of reconciliation can only have any hope of succeeding if there is a large display of goodwill and a sincere search by Turkish and Armenian leaders for positive…

The Marriage from Hell: Jane Harman and the Woodrow Wilson Center

The Marriage from Hell: Jane Harman and the Woodrow Wilson Center

“Woodrow Wilson, the 28th American president, is looking down in horror at what the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC) is doing in his name.” I wrote that last…

‘Zero-Problems’ Foreign Policy No More: Turkey and the Syrian ‘Abyss’

When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would maintain cordial ties with Turkey’s…

Turkey’s Brilliant Statecraft: The Achievement of Ahmet Davutoglu

Turkey’s Brilliant Statecraft: The Achievement of Ahmet Davutoglu

By a happy quirk of personal destiny I happened to be in Istanbul recently when the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu gave a talk at the opening dinner session of…

Van Earthquake Exposes Turkey’s Ethnic Fault Lines

Van Earthquake Exposes Turkey’s Ethnic Fault Lines

The recent earthquake in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish province of Van not only caused loss of life and damage, it also exposed the country’s political and ethnic fault lines. In the…

The Neo-Turkish Gambit

The turbulent events that commenced less than a year ago and which continue to take place in North Africa and the Middle East are caused by complicated, and often contradictory,…

Taking on Turkey: Israel’s ‘Dangerous’ Game

Taking on Turkey: Israel’s ‘Dangerous’ Game

The UN Palmer Report, which largely exonerated Israel for murdering nine unarmed Turkish civilians in international waters on May 31, 2010, seemed in some ways like the last straw. Prior…

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