Posts Tagged: Recep Erdogan
Turkey’s Erdogan Threatened to Invade Israel: What Does It Really Mean?
In 2017, I published a book on anti-Zionism and antisemitism in Turkey. In that book, besides describing the development of antisemitic and anti-Israel phenomena in...
How Erdogan Won in Turkey — Again
After the second round of presidential elections in Turkey, when the parliamentary elections had already proven the success of the AKP party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
Turkey’s 2023 Elections: The Beginning of the Post-Erdogan Era?
On May 14, 2023, general and presidential elections will be held in Turkey. The elections were brought forward by a month to avoid the pilgrimage...
For Turkey’s President, the Failed Coup Was a ‘Gift From God’
On July 15, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “celebrated” the sixth anniversary of a failed military coup -- "a major victory" that presumably protected the...
Is Turkey Making Waves With Iran?
Buoyed by last year’s defeat of Armenia by Azerbaijan, TGRT, a Turkish subsidiary of Ihlas Holding, a media and construction conglomerate that has won major...
Islamism Is Stunting Turkish Academic Achievement
Turkey, with a population of 83 million and two Nobel Prizes won, ranks 62nd on the list of countries by Nobel laureates per capita. This...
Erdogan’s Reckless Gambit: It’s Payback Time
Only three days after Turkey’s Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan sighed with relief at having side-stepped heavy European sanctions, he got slapped with heavy American...
With Turkey and Israel, Interests Talk, Sentiments Walk
JNS.org - Spring has arrived in Ankara earlier than expected. A change of tune, which has been music to Israeli ears, has emanated from the...
Turkey’s Erdogan Makes a Risky Regional Power Bid
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relations with his US and European allies are strained over unilateral Turkish moves in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey’s acquisition of a Russian...
With Friends Like Turkey’s Erdogan, Trump’s America Won’t Need Enemies
With the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) in large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, Turkey became known as a “jihadist highway” that transported...
Turkey’s Anti-Israel, Anti-Western Policies Could Outlast Erdogan
Many believe Turkey will return to “Western normality” as soon as Recep Tayyip Erdogan finishes his political career. But Turkey’s behavior is influenced by the...
The Beginning of the End of the Erdogan Era?
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s downfall in the runoff mayoral election in Istanbul -- Turkey’s largest city -- was more than just another...
Turkey: New System, Same One-Man Show
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, undoubtedly the most popular and divisive leader in modern Turkish history, has already ruled the country longer than Atatürk, the founder...
Could Sunday’s Election in Turkey Be Its Last?
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s suffocating hold on power in Turkey, and the deterioration of the country’s democracy and Islamist-based foreign relations, is...
