Search results for: Halil M. Karaveli
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The Portentous Legacy of “New Turkey”: Sectarianism Invited
...The Islamists no longer occupy the moral high ground in Turkey. And Islamization has at least to some extent ceased to serve the interests of Turkish capitalism. Yet what...
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How the Kurds’ Power Play Backfired in Turkey
...Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s recent calls for the Kurdish militants to end the armed struggle inside Turkey seemed designed to show that they were on the brink of...
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How the Kurds’ Power Play Backfired in Turkey
...Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s recent calls for the Kurdish militants to end the armed struggle inside Turkey seemed designed to show that they were on the brink of...
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Erdogan’s Achilles’ Heel
...Over the course of last year, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has surmounted some major obstacles. He crushed urban protests last summer. He cracked down on the followers...
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Foreign Policy Reset Unlikely Under President Erdogan
...Turkey’s ambitious foreign policy has turned into a train wreck. Rather than dominating the Middle East, as its leaders had hoped, Turkey is more isolated and carries less regional...
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Will Erdogan Always Prevail?
...The year after the Gezi Park protests has been the most difficult for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since he became prime minister, but he has prevailed over his foes and...
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Trial By Twitter – Erdogan, the Gülenists, and the Future of Turkish Democracy
...to contain the effects of incriminating recordings of telephone conversations between him, his cabinet ministers, family members, and newspaper editors that have started to leak out on the Internet...
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Is Authoritarianism forever in Turkey?
...in everyone’s service; it is more likely that the eternal struggle to capture the state and deploy it to enforce parochial group interests is going to continue, sustaining authoritarianism....
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Erdogan Loses It
...cleric who leads his congregation from self-imposed exile in the United States, has imploded. As it does, the military is gearing up to insert itself into politics once more....
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United against the West? Erdoğan and the Turkish generals
...The Turkish decision to choose a Chinese anti-missile system demonstrates Turkey’s ambition to forge an independent defense identity. It is another indication that the ruling Islamic conservatives do not...