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Category Archives: Turkey
My Podcast with The Greek Current: Are Turkey and Egypt on a path toward normalizing relations?
Last week, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was in Egypt on Saturday to push to restore full diplomatic relations between the two countries. I joined joins Thanos Davelis to look at what this visit means for Egypt-Turkey relations, and break … Continue reading
Podcast: A New Start of Egypt-Turkey Relations?
It was a pleasure to join Thanos Davelis, the director of public affairs at the Hellenic Leader, in a new episode of the Greek Current podcast series. to to discuss the relations between Turkey and Egypt following the Turkish President … Continue reading
Podcast: Political Islam lost opportunity for Turkey to coexist with West
In my latest podcast for Ahval’s Turkish Trends series, I spoke to Turkish political scientist Cengiz Aktar about his latest essay ” The Turkish Malaise – A Critical Essay,” in which he explains how Turkey was in a counter-process in … Continue reading
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Podcast: Turkish government uses troll armies to control public discourse
My latest Turkish Trend podcast for Ahval was with Süleyman Özeren, a Turkish scholar at the George Mason University and a fellow of the Orion Policy Institute. he explained how Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has utilised its youth organisations … Continue reading
Podcast: Turkey’s proxies try to sabotage upcoming elections in Libya
In this episode of Turkey Trends, I discussed the situation in Libya with Aya Burweila, a senior adviser at the Research Institute for European and American Studies. She highlighted how Turkey and its Islamist proxies and forces in war-torn Libya will do everything … Continue reading
Turkey and Nato are no longer aligned, even if they won’t admit it.
Last month, I wrote this opinion piece for The National on Turkey and NATO, and I would like to repost here for my blog followers. Enjoy … Following the accession of Turkey to Nato in 1952, the newly elected Turkish … Continue reading
Podcast: A Discussion with Max Hoffman on Turkey and NATO
Reposting my latest podcast for Ahval’s Turkey Trends with Max Hoffman, associate director of National Security and International Policy at the Centre for American Progress (CAP). We discussed how NATO membership is a huge source of prestige for Turkey that helps … Continue reading
Podcast: Turkey and NATO
Ahead of NATO summit in Brussels, I recorded this podcast with Steven Cook, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Aval’s Turkey Trends, on how Turkey presents a geopolitical dilemma for NATO.
Podcast: Turkey’s crime boss Sedat Peker
Reposting my podcast for Ahval’s Turkey Trend with Ryan Gingeras, a professor of Turkish and Middle Eastern history at the Naval Postgraduate School in the United States. on crime boss Sedat Peker and his claims of corruption at the heart … Continue reading
Turkey Trends Podcast: The latest rapprochement between Turkey and Greece
Here is my latest podcast for Ahval’s Turkey Trends with European affairs analyst Yannis Koutsomitis on the recent rapprochement between Turkey and Greece. Following a year of heightened tensions, Turkey and Greece have initiated joint action and cooperation on tangible projects, Turkish Foreign … Continue reading
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