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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Nesi Altaras on Turkish Jews applying for Spanish and Portuguese citizenship
Selim Koru on Turkey’s earthquakes and their political aftershocks
Çağdaş Üngör on what Turkey and China want from Sino-Turkish relations
Mostafa Minawi on Arab-Ottoman imperialists at the end of empire
Greg Goalwin on religious nationalism and identity in Turkey and Ireland
Derya Ozkul on Alevis in contemporary Turkey and abroad
Ryan Gingeras on the last days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922
Enno Maessen on nostalgia and cosmopolitanism in Istanbul’s Beyoglu
Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and abroad
Elise Massicard on muhtars, the state and society in Turkey
Jonathan Parry on British encounters with the Ottomans
Sevgi Adak on anti-veiling campaigns in Turkey
Galip Dalay on the nuances of Turkey’s Middle East reset
Jan-Markus Vomel on Islamism and masculinity in Turkey
Saniye Dedeoğlu on Syrian migrants, work and precarity in Turkey
Gönül Bozoğlu on the politics of history in contemporary Turkey
Murat Somer on reframing Turkey’s Kurdish question
Dimitar Bechev on Turkey’s trajectory under Erdoğan
Amy Marie Spangler on Leyla Erbil, strange woman of 20th century Turkish literature
Murat Metinsoy on resistance and dissent in early republican Turkey
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