Soner Çağaptay of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on how Turkey's military incursion into northeast Syria fits into President Erdoğan's broader policies in the Middle East. Çağaptay is author most recently of “Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East” (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury).
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Çağdaş Üngör on Turkey's geopolitical dilemmas in the Asia-Pacific century
Karabekir Akkoyunlu on religion and democracy in Turkey and Iran
Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
Umit Kurt on Gaziantep's forgotten Armenian past
Ozge Samanci on visualising Istanbul's sociopolitical currents
Sami Kent on stories from Turkey’s first hundred years
Bradley Secker on the pleasures and perils of photojournalism in Istanbul
Bilge Yesil on Turkey’s global media operations
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on Muslim refugees in the Ottoman Empire
Emre Toros on Turkey between democracy and authoritarianism
Christopher Phillips on Turkey’s place in Middle East turbulence
Seda Demiralp on Turkey’s surprise local election results
Andrew Finkel on Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and Sherlock Holmes
Bahar Baser on Turkey's brain drain
İlkay Yılmaz on the origins of the Ottoman Turkish security state
Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey and the people of Istanbul’s historic walls
Tuğba Tekerek on the crisis in Turkish academia
Timur Hammond on religion and change in Istanbul
İlkim Büke Okyar on Arabs in Turkish popular culture
Berk Esen on the future of Turkey’s opposition and the fate of its democracy
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