Search results for: Halil M. Karaveli
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Turkey is Expecting a Restart with the U.S.
...The Kurdish question has, once again, complicated Turkish-American relations. The rhetoric of anti-Americanism remains useful to whip up and mobilize nationalist opinion. Yet, Erdoğan’s Islamists are not any aspiring...
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Assassination in Ankara: Russia, NATO, and Turkey’s Violent Politics
...On December 19, Mevlut Mert Altintas, a Turkish police officer, assassinated Andrei Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey. His action was apparently meant as retribution for Russian bombings in eastern...
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Följer Frankrike i Trumps spår?
...tidigare i år. Efter brexit och Donald Trumps seger i det amerikanska presidentvalet är det frågan om Frankrike, som väljer president om fem månader, står på tur att chocka världen....
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Azerbaijan’s Formula: Secular Governance and Civic Nationhood
...In January 2016, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev designated 2016 the “Year of Multiculturalism.” This took place at a time when Azerbaijan’s neighborhood has experienced a trend toward less rather...
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The “Logic” of Turkey’s Repression
...Gülen terror organization (FETÖ). Ironically, the prosecutor himself is accused of being a Gülenist, and the minister of justice deplored that the case had been entrusted to him. President Erdoğan...
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Erdogan’s Journey – Conservatism and Authoritarianism in Turkey
...profoundly illiberal, authoritarian direction—although not toward repressive Islamism, which some feared was Erdogan’s true agenda, given his background in Islamist politics. Rather, Erdogan has become something more akin to a...
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Turkey’s Fractured State
...The Turkish military is known to be a stronghold of Kemalism, the secularist and nationalist ideology of the founder of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. So when the Islamic conservative...
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Turkey is Yet to “Conquer” its History
...Minister, Binali Yıldırım, participated in a grandiose ceremony in Istanbul that drew an estimated one million spectators. In the speech that he delivered at the ceremony, Erdoğan argued that the...
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Turkey’s Decline
...of the Middle East. Today, such notions of grandeur seem outrageous. After the bombing of a military convoy in Ankara on February 17, which the Turkish government blamed on the...
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Terror Likely to Strengthen Turkish Militarism
...The wave of terror that has struck Turkey since last year is likely to have the cumulative effect of bolstering militarism as a response to the country’s Kurdish challenge....