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A Golden Age At All Costs
Hugh Pope has a long and excellent roundup in the Cairo Review of Erdoğan’s first decade at Turkey’s helm, and it is a useful summary of the important trends that have taken place, particular in the...
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Opportunities and Pitfalls for The U.S. and Turkey
The Council on Foreign Relations has a new report out on U.S.-Turkish relations that looks at Turkey’s rising geopolitical role while acknowledging some of the more worrisome authoritarian trends...
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Obama and Erdoğan
David Ignatius’s column in yesterday’s Washington Post argued that the heart of the U.S.-Turkey relationship is the one between President Obama and Prime Minister Erdoğan. Ignatius detailed the way in...
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Practicing What I Preach
One of the themes that I continuously harp on in the course of writing this blog is the vital importance of the U.S.-Turkish relationship. The U.S. and Turkey are strategic partners and have been for...
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A Poor Use Of Turkey As An Excuse To Intervene In Syria
Michael Doran and Max Boot wrote an op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times calling for U.S. intervention in Syria and arguing that there are a number of reasons why this is the opportune time to do so....
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The Cost Of Erdoğan’s Bombast
When Israel launched Operation Pillar of Cloud, Prime Minister Erdoğan initially kept silent. This lasted for a couple of days, and when he finally opened his mouth, what came out was not pretty. First...
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Guest Post: Are Turks And Americans Friends?
Today’s post comes from the great mind of Alexander Slater, who aside from being a close friend and one of my all-time favorite intellectual sparring partners is also a counsel at O’Melveny &...
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Turkey: Spies Like Us
This post is a co-production with my close friend and colleague Steven Cook, and is cross-posted on his blog From the Potomac to the Euphrates. Ehud Barak’s political instincts have never been great,...
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Turkey and the U.S. – Hearing But Not Listening
I spent the better part of last week in Istanbul talking U.S. and Turkish foreign policy under the auspices of the Hollings Center, and I came away with a lot to mull over, but if there was one big...
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Structural U.S.-Turkey Tension Isn’t Going Away
Ahmet Davutoğlu this week implicitly acknowledged that the U.S. and Turkey have seen better days in their relationship, saying that “relations are proceeding on a dynamic and honest ground,” which is...
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Pressure On Turkey Works And There Needs To Be More
I have a piece in Foreign Affairs today in which I argue that Turkey is backtracking on a couple of issues that have created friction with the U.S. in response to more open American criticism of...
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Some Significant Home News
I know that I have been neglecting the blog lately in a serious way (some of which was for good reasons such as the birth of my daughter, and some of which was for not so good reasons such as having a...
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Turkey Is No Longer A Reliable Ally
This piece was published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal with my friend and colleague Steven Cook. The meeting this week between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir...
View ArticleThe Layers of Israel’s Trump Mistake
Since President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria and pave the way for Turkey’s military campaign against American-backed Kurdish fighters, much ink has been spilled on...
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