Your book is organized around four major historical moments: the Early Republic, the Cold War, the Özal period, and Erdoğan’s neo-patrimonial era. How should readers understand the scope and ambition of this book?
This book should be read as a major interpretive history of modern Turkey. In that sense, it enters into conversation with two classic works: Bernard Lewis’s The Emergence of Modern Turkey and...
In Lebanon, the question of who possesses weapons is never merely a security issue. It is also a question of who governs, who protects the country, and who has the authority to decide between war and peace. This is why the approaching end of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, commonly known as UNIFIL, is generating an unusually sensitive debate. The issue is...
Weekly Turkey Report: Fourth Week of January 2026 – A New Kobane Moment for the Kurds
Executive Summary
Kobane once symbolized Kurdish resistance against ISIS...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of January 2026 – Peace by Beating the Kurds
Executive Summary
Türkiye entered the new year amid an Ankara-backed assault in...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of November 2025: Lower Courts Defy the Constitutional Court
Executive Summary
Several local courts continue to defy binding Constitutional Court...
Weekly Turkey Report: End of October 2025: Europe Embraces Erdoğan
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped global balances and increased Turkey’s value in the eyes...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd. Week of October 2025: “Plenty of Talk, No Real Change”
Turkey continues to sink deeper into a quagmire of economic crisis,...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of October 2025
Summary
Turkey is showing the classic signs of “El Salvadorization”—a rapid slide into gang violence, institutional corruption, and...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of October 2025
Conflict within the Ruling Party
President Erdoğan’s visit to the United States has ended, but the controversy it...
Weekly Turkey Report: 4th Week of September 2025
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did everything he could to please the U.S. President Donald Trump, yet he...
Weekly Turkey Report: 3rd Week of September 2025
The Republican People’s Party (CHP), facing the risk of government-appointed trustees, convened an extraordinary congress and re-elected...
Weekly Turkey Report: 2nd Week of September 2025
There is a well-known saying: “History repeats itself.” Yet a more accurate observation would be that clever...
Weekly Turkey Report: 1st Week of September
Erdoğan’s Escalating Pressure on the CHP
With the arrival of autumn, President Erdoğan has intensified his pressure and encirclement...
