By Burak Bekdil September 26, 2019 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,300, September 26, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At testing times, Turkey’s Islamist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has always sought refuge at home, taking pleasure in his massive popularity. But…
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by Burak Bekdil September 18, 2019 at 5:00 am President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now wants to make Turkey a rogue state with nuclear weapons. For several decades, Turkey, being a staunch NATO ally, was viewed as the trusted custodian of…
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του Burak Bekdil* 4 Αυγούστου 2019 Μετάφραση του πρωτότυπου κειμένου: Erdoğan’s American Gamble «Η απόφαση της Τουρκίας να προχωρήσει στην απόκτηση του ρωσικού συστήματος πυραύλων επιφάνειας-αέρος S-400 παρουσιάζει μια σοβαρή απειλή όσον αφορά την εθνική ασφάλεια στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και…
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By Burak Bekdil* June 7, 2019 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,195, June 9, 2019 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The first-ever NATO member state to shoot down a Russian military jet has willingly fallen in line with Vladimir Putin’s “Turkish Gambit,” a…
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by Burak Bekdil* February 22, 2019 at 5:00 am One of Erdoğan’s regional policy priorities, as U.S. troops in neighboring northern Syria prepare to leave, is to prevent Turkey’s south from witnessing the emergence of “a Kurdish belt”. While the…
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By Burak Bekdil* July 30, 2018 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 910, July 30, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, undoubtedly the most popular and divisive leader in modern Turkish history, has already ruled the country longer than Atatürk,…
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by Burak Bekdil* May 3, 2018 at 5:30 am Anyone who freely thinks for himself regarding Turkish President Erdoğan’s one-man rule, at home or abroad, can get the label “terrorist.” On April 25, a Turkish court sentenced 14 staff members…
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By Burak Bekdil* April 27, 2018 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 813, April 27, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The takeover of Turkey’s largest independent media group by an Erdoğan crony was not unexpected given the troubles and systematic state harassment suffered…
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