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March 6, 2015

Turkey
Ahmet Davutoglu: Only in New York

With all the hubbub over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s visit to New York City this week was al…

Ahmet Davutoglu Only in New York

April 8, 2008

Religion
New CFR book: Noah Feldman on the Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Islamist political movements, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Justice and Development Party in Morocco make the adoption of sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—a crucial plan…

August 15, 2011

Turkey
Turkey: Speaking Truth to Power

Anti-government protesters clash with riot police in the Damascus suburb of Douma (Ho New/Courtesy Reuters) My old friend Suat Kinikloglu recently penned an op-ed in the English language  daily, Tod…

Turkey: Speaking Truth to Power

November 3, 2011

Politics and Government
Egypt: Supra-Constitutional Principles?

Head of Egypt's ruling military council Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi greets Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, upon his arrival at the Defense Ministry in Cairo (POOL New/Courtesy …

Egypt: Supra-Constitutional Principles?

April 3, 2013

Turkey
Turkey’s Constitutional Controversy

April 3—Istanbul A draft of Turkey’s new constitution was supposed to be finished on Monday, but the members of the Constitutional Reconciliation Commission say they need about another month to prod…

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