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While the Middle East has a powerful claim on the world's attention (or at least Washington's), the world has no shortage of potentially explosive hotspots. Whether it's conflictin...(full article)

Turkey's record on press freedom is deeply troubling. With 47 journalists imprisoned for their work, the country is the world's leading jailer of journalists -- ahead of Iran and C...(full article)

Erdogan, who is now in his second decade of power and quite openly plotting for his third, has transformed Turkey from an imperfect democracy based on rule of law into an increasin...(full article)

This week’s summit between President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reflects the extraordinary development of relations between the United States ...(full article)

The car bombs that killed more than 40 people last weekend in a town in southern Turkey are a reckoning for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He had made himself party to the fi...(full article)

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Erdogan's Great Kurdish Gamble - John Hannah, Foreign Policy

Something quite extraordinary -- perhaps even historic -- is afoot in Turkey. The country's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is engaged in a colossal roll of the political dic...

It's Time for Turkey to Intervene in Syria - Henri Barkey, The National

The Obama administration has so far refused to engage in Syria militarily although the signs are that it may now consider changing its policy, moving towards providing the rebel si...

Drought Is Ripping the Arab World Apart - Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel

Syria is 85 percent desert or semi-arid country. But it has several significant waterways. The Euphrates runs in a south-easterly direction through the center of the country to Ira...

Is the Turkey-PKK War Really Over? - The Guardian

After 30 years of conflict, the difference this time is that the ground for peace has been assiduously cultivated....

Turkey's Fear of Russia Keeps Them from Syria - Soner Cagaptay, Atlantic

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov visited Ankara on April 17th, but the event went almost unnoticed. Despite deep differences between Ankara and Moscow over Syria, Turkey has ...

Turkey's Bold Geopolitical Ambition - Robert Kaplan & Reva Bhalla, Stratfor

At a time when Europe and other parts of the world are governed by forgettable mediocrities, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister for a decade now, seethes with ambition. ...

Turks Show Kerry Who's Boss - Jonathan Tobin, Contentions

President Obama’s brokering of what we were told was a rapprochement between his friend Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya...

John Kerry's Shameful Moral Relativism - Seth Mandel, Commentary

Those who doubted the wisdom of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apology to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in March had their first “I told you...

The Syrian War on Turkey - Michael Weiss, NOW Lebanon

Salqin, the gleaming white hamlet of stucco houses and 35,000 residents, was maybe 10 kilometers from where we were standing, at the nethermost lip of the Turkish-Syrian border, in...

The Rise of the New Turkish Empire - Asli Aydintasbas, Hoover Institution

“If you are no longer interested in having an empire, we’ll take it,” I said, speaking recently in Istanbul to a group of U.S. congressmen and women who expressed...

Erdogan's Kurdish Gambit - Sinan Ulgen, Project Syndicate

Conflict in the Middle East threatens not only the security of many of its states, but also their continued existence. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and others, now gripped by sectarian fig...

Kurds Don't Wish to Tear Iraq Apart - Ashti Hawrami, RealClearWorld

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Does Israel Get the Mideast Honor Code? - Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel

Netanyahu’s change of course on Turkey reopens the question of whether issuing a forced apology, for an act deemed ‘legitimate,’ is smart self-interest or fundame...

A Bad Time for an Independent Kurdistan - Ranj Alaaldin, Asharq Al-Awsat

Whilst turmoil in Iraq (which includes the Anbar protests and Sunni demands for federalism) as well as the regional changes taking place might undermine national unity and undermin...

Don't Be Fooled by Kurdish Peace Process - Michael Rubin, Contentions

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Why Israel Needs Turkey (and Vice Versa) - Mike Giglio, The Daily Beast

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Sultan Erdogan and 'Neo-Ottoman' Turkey - Cinar Kiper, The Atlantic

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John Kerry's Clinic in Diplomatic Futility - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

Secretary of State John Kerry is on tour this week, emulating the sort of frequent-flyer diplomacy that his predecessor Hillary Clinton prided herself on. With the help of an adori...

Turkey Gives Politics a Chance - Kemal Kirisci, The National Interest

Late last month, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called to apologize to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the death of Turkish citizens during a military o...

Turkey Seeks an Ottoman Sphere of Influence - Kadri Gursel, Al Monitor

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Can Erdogan Deliver His End of the Bargain with Israel? - INEGMA

Although the restoration of ties between Israel and Turkey is welcome news for both countries, it is premature to gauge how close Tel Aviv and Ankara will become given their contin...

Hamas Again Avoids Change - Hussein Ibish, NOW Lebanon

Reports are coming thick and fast that Hamas is preparing to reconfirm Khaled Mishaal as the head of its Politburo. He will, apparently, have the Gaza-based leader Ismail Hanniyeh ...

Where Is Turkey's Apology? - Michael Rubin, Commentary

Whether or not it was wise, we can debate. But it’s hard not to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apology to Turkey as the diplomatic equivalent of a battered spouse ap...

Energy Brings Turkey, Israel Together - Joseph Dana, The National

Analysts quickly pegged the apology to instability in Syria and even the Iranian nuclear crisis. But there is another possibility that could be fuelling this rapprochement: a pot...

Shh, Don't Tell Anyone: Hamas Won - Andrew McCarthy, National Review

Barack Obama brought enough Chicago-style community organizing to Israel that Benjamin Netanyahu knew what he would have to do. If he hoped to keep the tepid support of his country...

Why the Middle East Just Can't Get Along - George Jonas, National Post

A soft word may turn away wrath, but it’s useless to kiss the posterior of bullies. They regard it as lip service. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu probably knew thi...

Israel and Turkey Let Bygones Be Bygones - Washington Post

Rapprochement between Turkey and Israel, two regional powers with stable democratic governments, has a compelling logic at a time when the Middle East is gripped by war and sectari...

How Turkey Views Israel's Apology - Aylin Kocaman, Jerusalem Post

While the silence has begun to lift in the wake of the shock of the apology in Turkey, and from what I can tell in Israel, too, some people have looked back and begun examining t...

The Putinization of Turkey - Benny Avni, New York Post

Following Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan these days is like watching a chameleon. You never know which color he’ll turn next. But through all the shifts,a strate...

Turkey's Promising Shift to the West - Bloomberg

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Turkey's Big Week Means New Clout in Middle East - Karl Vick, Time

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The Taiwan of the Middle East - Kevin Sullivan, RealClearWorld

After decades of persecution and genocide, the Kurds have found a way to operate in a neighborhood where clear-cut borders can often be more of a nuisance than a boon. Loosely prom...

Turks Illustrate Limits of Obama's Magic - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

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Patriot Missiles Won't Cure Syria - Joshi & Stein, The National Interest

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Why Israel and Turkey Need Each Other - Ozgur Erkan, Jerusalem Post

In a nutshell, both Turkey and Israel can hugely benefit from a close regional alliance, given the common security threats with Syria and Iran and the potential opportunities with ...

Turkey Needs Israel to Help Fend Off Iran - Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel

Ankara had numerous reasons to restore its ties with the Zionist regime its leader so recently castigated. Barely mentioned but foremost among them: Iran....

In Mideast, Obama Knocks It Out of the Park - Frida Ghitis, CNN

They're bringing down the American flags in Jordan and Israel and putting them back into storage after they got slammed in a sudden sandstorm during the last part of President Bara...

Israel and Turkey Can't Afford to Lose Anymore Time - Haaretz

After the destruction, the work of rehabilitation is now the challenge on the doorstep of the two leaders. They cannot lose any more time....

The Coming Mediterranean Dash for Gas - Yuri Zhukov, Foreign Affairs

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Will PKK Boss' Declaration Bring Peace with Turkey? - Pelin Turgut, Time

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Turkish and PKK Guns Should Fall Silent - The Economist

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The Americans won the war, the Iranians won the peace and the Turks won the contracts....

John Kerry Roasts Turkey - Lee Smith, Tablet Magazine

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