Partial and limited opening of authoritarian political systems in Turkey and Egypt created new democratic opportunities for Islamists to...

Nicolas Sarkozy’s election as France’s president in May 2007 has marked a rhetorical change in the foreign policy of Paris and has made the French...

Bilateral relations between Turkey and Israel nosedived after the recent Israeli operation in Gaza, and both countries tested each other’s red...

This essay analyzes the relationship between Turkey and Israel against the background of the AKP ascent to power in Turkey in 2002 and the invasion...

Despite the negative atmosphere it created for both sides, the Davos case should be seen as an opportunity to revisit the various aspects of...

The Cyprus tragedy of the past and the Iraq predicament of our times bear striking similarities. Cyprus of the 1960s and 1970s is not too far from...

This article examines the December 2, 2007 State Duma elections in Russia in terms of their significance and implications for Russian politics. The...

This article discusses Kosovo’s independence from a framework of political and legal perspectives and assesses regional and global responses to the...

The article reviews the relevance of soft power for the case of Turkey, and assesses whether Turkey does have meaningful soft power potential. or...

Turkey has been traditionally viewed mostly as a hard power in the Middle East, due to its military and economic strength. In recent years,...

Soft power is based on attraction and the ability to persuade others to further one's goals. The key sources of soft power are said to derive from...

This article builds on the insights of critical approaches to the study of power and seeks to lay bare the poverty of power analysis in mainstream...

This article analyzes the identity dimension of EU-Turkey relations from the constructivist perspective in international relations theory. It...

Minorities have always been the subject of academic, journalistic and popular research in Turkey. The general trend of most of these analyses to...

This article aims to show how exchanges.between religion and secularism, Islam and democracy and cross-cultural relations over many years have...

The Prosecutor of the High Court of Appeals opened a closure case against the ruling AK Party by presenting it as the center of anti-secular...

As the AK Party government struggles to keep the ‘EU dream’ alive, and as Kemalist ideocrats work to keep back the AKP’s dominion, lingering...

The Kurdish question has been a source of domestic conflict since the inception of the Turkish Republic. It has been one of the mostly securitized...

In a sharp break from the past, Turkey’s AK Party government now openly accepts the existence of a domestic Kurdish problem, and views it moreover...

This article examines the challenges of Kurdish nationalism within Turkey and of Kurdish nationalist movements emanating from Iraq during the...

This article argues that Turkey's approach towards the Kurds of northern Iraq provides analysts with an opportunity to demonstrate that the...

This paper challenges the view that the AKP is an "Islamist Party" and "hardly a democratic opening." It puts forward the argument that the AKP's...

This article, based on a book published by SETA, looks at the attitudes of Turkish people towards what is conceived as the West and Western...

Conflicting dynamics and power calculation: within the Bush administration have given rise to contradictory signals coming from Washington...