Tag Archives: Erdogan

Podcast: Political Islam lost opportunity for Turkey to coexist with West

Posted on October 13, 2021 by nervana111

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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Turkey and Nato are no longer aligned, even if they won’t admit it.

Posted on July 5, 2021 by nervana111

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 →

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Podcast: A Discussion with Max Hoffman on Turkey and NATO

Posted on June 27, 2021 by nervana111

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 →

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Podcast: Turkey and NATO

Posted on June 14, 2021 by nervana111

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.

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Podcast: Erdoğan keeping Kavala behind bars based on conspiracy theories

Posted on May 31, 2021 by nervana111

Here is my latest Turkey Trends Podcast for Ahval with Henri J. Barkey, an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Prof. Barkey explained how the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan … Continue reading →

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Podcast: On Turkey and Israel, and the recent escalation in Gaza

Posted on May 31, 2021 by nervana111

Reposting my podcast for Ahval’s Turkey Trends with Michael Koplow , Policy Director at the Israel Policy Forum in Washington D.C., on the relations between Turkey and Israel and how both Israel and Egypt seek to keep Turkey out of … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Erdoğan’s neo-Ottomanism in effect with Turkey’s foreign occupation in Libya

Posted on May 22, 2021 by nervana111

Earlier this month, Libya’s first female foreign minister Najla Mangoush asked Turkey to cooperate in ending the presence of foreign forces in the country, a move that has prompted criticism from certain Libyan political groups. It was Islamists who attacked … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Turkish parties show inability to come to terms with Armenian issue

Posted on April 30, 2021 by nervana111

Here is my latest podcast for Ahval’s Turkey Trends with Dr Aykan Erdmir on how Turkish parties show inability to come to terms with Armenian issue. The Turkish Foreign Ministry has for decades spent time and energy to fight against similar decisions across … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Ex-admirals declaration “gift from God” for Erdogan

Posted on April 15, 2021 by nervana111

I am delighted to collaborate with Ahval News with a series of podcasts on current affairs of Turkey. In my first podcast, I interviewed Dr. Steven Cook and discussed his latest piece on Turkey’s ex-admirals’ declaration on the Montreux Convention, … Continue reading →

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Twitter Thread: Another church, another sad story from Turkey

Posted on September 2, 2020 by nervana111

Last month, the Turkish president Erdogan has converted two churches in Istanbul, Hagia Sophia and Chora church, to working mosques. Now Turkish officials have demolished an ancient Greek Orthodox church in the country’s northwestern province of Bursa, after the structure … Continue reading →

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