Istanbul Calling

The International Crisis Group today released a superb report that examines Turkey's lingering Kurdish issue and the failure of recent e...

In the end, Ankara decided to use the recent NATO summit in Lisbon not as an opportunity to make a De Gaulle-style break with the alliance, ...

As James Traub points out in his most recent Foreign Policy column, Turkey currently aspires to be many things, some of which may ultimatel...

I was on Chicago Public Radio's "Worldview" program talking about the Sept. 12 referendum in Turkey and the constitutional ref...

The signals coming out of Turkey's predominantly-Kurdish southeast region and from along the border with Iraq are not comforting. In rec...

More troubling news for the Turkish government's initially promising "democratic opening," a reform initiative announced last ...

Ilter Turan, a respected professor of International Relations at Istanbul's Bilgi University, has written a briefing for the German Mars...

The German Marshall Fund has just posted a new briefing by its astute Turkey analyst, Ian Lesser, about the difficult choices Ankara will ha...

There are two interesting news items in the Turkish press that strike me as connected and instructive regarding some of the domestic challen...

A bit more to follow up my previous post about Turkey's plans to purchase it's first missile defense system (possibly American-made...

There's a certain feeling of Cold War déjà vu in Turkey these days. Back then, NATO ally Turkey was seen as a front line state in the s...

Gareth Jenkins, a veteran Turkey analyst and an expert on the country's military and security affairs, has a new report out that takes a...

I have a piece up on the Eurasianet website looking at what the Turkish government's upcoming "Kurdish Initiative" -- a reform...

To follow up on yesterday's post, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have announced that a document that outlines an alleged military plan t...

The Middle East Institute, a Washington-based think tank, has a lengthy new report out about Ergenekon, the sensational coup plot case that ...

If there were trading cards for Israeli generals, then the one for Avi Mizrahi – commander of the IDF’s land forces – would be a hot item in...

My article in today's Christian Science Monitor about how Turkey's powerful military is facing unprecedented criticism from an unli...