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February 4, 2013

Israel
Turkey: Davutoglu’s Pebbles

A few years ago, a Turkish contact in a position to know regaled me with stories about the inner workings of the ruling Justice and Development Party—who was up and who was down, the personality diff…

ISRpilot
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 22, 2008

Turkey
Turkey’s Top Foreign Policy Aide Worries about False Optimism in Iraq

Ahmet Davutoglu, the chief foreign policy aide to Turkey’s prime minister, says he fears recent optimism on Iraq in the United States overlooks significant, dangerous problems which remain unresolved.

Interview by Ahmet Davutoglu

February 21, 2015

Turkey
Weekend Reading: Erdogan and Davutoglu, Egypt’s Prisons, and Negotiating with Assad?

Ismet Berkan examines how Turkey’s upcoming parliamentary elections might affect the relationship between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Tom Stevenson takes a loo…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 5, 2014

Weekend Reading: What Caused ISIS, PKK Women on the State of their World, and Meet PM Davutoglu

Peter Harling explores the rise of ISIS in Le Monde Diplomatique (English). Alexandra Valiente’s two-part interview with representatives from the PKK’s Party of Women’s Liberation. Burak Bekdil tak…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

August 2, 2021

Middle East and North Africa
Cracks Are Growing in the Erdogan Regime

Turkey is more politically unstable today than at any other point in recent years. 

Article by Steven A. Cook Middle East Program