This article looks at the impact of Turkish voters in German politics since the 1980s with a special attention to the latest elections in September...

This article discusses a new social and political phenomenon in Europe, which has become evident along with the visibility of Islam in the European...

Turkey’s membership in the European Union (EU) is contingent on economic, political, and cultural factors. Rather than a geographic area with a...

The Kurdish question in Turkey has a long history which was viewed within the framework of nation building, integration and underdevelopment until...

The interest Turkey has generated in the Arab world over the last few years is caused by the convergence of changes in Turkey, the Middle East, and...

For centuries, the Arabs and Turks were subjects of the Ottoman Sultanate and were largely shaped by the dominant Ottoman culture and mode of...

Turkey successfully gained provisional membership of the United Nations Security Council by receiving support from 151 states in the UN General...

The arrival of the Obama administration has created opportunities for positive and enduring change in U.S. relations with the Muslim world....

Hamas Charter has sparked a lot of controversy, both inside and outside the organization. This paper offers a critical analysis of the original...

This article tests Mancur Olson’s theory of distributional coalitions against the case of the Turkish “deep state.” Olson’s theory holds that...

Conventional models developed through the conceptual lenses of modernization theory dating back to the 1960s, are no longer applicable to Turkish...

The recent emergence of Muslim democratic parties such as AKP in Turkey and PJD in Morocco draws attention to the perennial question on the...

Islam and democracy are said to be in a relationship fraught with problems as the former, allegedly, does not allow secular law to be put above...

While the question of the relationship between Islam and democracy continues to attract significant attention from scholars and policy-makers,...

This essay examines the validity of the argument that the alleged theological lack of state-religion separation in Islam is the reason for...

The Turkish proposal of a Caucasus Stability and Cooperation Platform (CSCP), and its impact on existing EU initiatives covering the same region,...

The international community is worried about the security implications of Iran’s nuclear activities. Although it has been argued that Iran is very...

Barack Obama’s inauguration as America’s new president has been welcomed as opening a ‘new era’ in Turkey’s relations with the United States. May...

Ahmet Davutoğlu was appointed Turkish foreign minister on May 1, 2009. Chief advisor to the Turkish prime minister since 2002, Davutoglu is known...

This article examines how the Turks’ views of the European Union align with notions of a center-periphery cleavage in Turkish politics....

The Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) initiative emerged from debates around the “clash of civilizations.” Based on this I will argue that the...

This study examines the possible contributions of the critical perspectives and conceptual frameworks of the Conflict Resolution field to address...

This article asks why Turkey recently adopted the emerging international norm of inter-civilizational dialogue as one of its foreign policy...

The purpose of this essay is to examine the emergence and rise of a new “social group,” or what I call a “conservative elite” in Turkey. By using...