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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Ayhan Kaya on migration from Turkey to Europe, past and present
Mike Giglio on reporting the rise and fall of ISIS from Turkey, Syria and Iraq
Bilge Yabancı on youth groups cultivating Turkey's religious nationalism
Caner Yelbaşı on the Circassians in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
Jonathan Rugman on Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Zeynep Şentek on industry and politics in environmental 'disaster zone' Dilovası
Holly Shissler on late Ottoman man of letters Ahmet Mithat Efendi
Deniz Çifçi on the fissures within Kurdish politics in Turkey
Nur Deriş on the epic life and times of Turkish journalist Sabiha Sertel
Emre Erşen on Turkey's pivot to Eurasia
Hannah Lucinda Smith on the past, present and future of Erdogan's Turkey
Mehmet Fatih Uslu on the pleasures and perils of translating Armenian to Turkish
Yağmur Karakaya on Ottoman nostalgia and populism in Turkey
Haris Rigas on the Istanbul of 19th century Greek scholar Skarlatos Byzantios
Elif Mahir Metinsoy on Ottoman women during World War I
Selim Deringil on the Ottoman twilight in the Arab lands
Toygar Sinan Baykan on populism and organisation in the AKP
Reuben Silverman on explorations in Turkey’s 'ever-present past'
Patrick Keddie on football and the story of modern Turkey
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