Search results for: Halil M. Karaveli
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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...
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Erdogan Stokes the Sectarian Fires
...as a democratic reformer. With international media attention no longer focused on the streets of Istanbul, conventional wisdom holds that the crisis is over and order has been restored....
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Turkey and Syria: A Slippery Slope
...Opinion letter on US-Turkish relations. Regarding the article “Turkey needs Obama’s help on Syria” (Views, May 18) by Soner Cagaptay and James F. Jeffrey: The United States should do...
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Turkey, the Unhelpful Ally
...ethnic pluralism. However, this rosy vision of a moderate and secular Syria after Mr. Assad’s downfall will not be achieved if the United States continues to depend on regional allies...
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How Serious is Erdogan about Joining the SCO Instead of the EU?
...Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s talk of joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and abandoning the pursuit of EU membership cannot be dismissed as loose talk, but neither does it herald a...
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The End of Taraf: The Liberals Have Outlived their Usefulness for the AKP
...fierce critic of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his departure from Taraf is yet another reminder that the space for critical expression in Turkey is being systematically narrowed....