May 7, 2012
TurkeyIt is incumbent upon the leaders of the United States and Turkey to define a new partnership "in order to make a strategic relationship a reality," says a new Council on Foreign Relations–sponsored I…
May 2, 2012
TurkeyTurkey is a rising regional and global power facing, as is the United States, the challenges of political transitions in the Middle East, bloodshed in Syria, and Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. As…
April 6, 2012
United StatesNine days ago, I wrote a piece for Foreign Policy online, “We Can’t Drone Our Way to Victory in Afghanistan," in which I detailed a range of host-nation rules that govern the behavior of U.S. militar…
April 14, 2010
CyprusMARC GROSSMAN: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today's Council on Foreign Relations meeting. There are a couple of rules before I get started that I've already talked to the Minister about and the …
April 14, 2010
CyprusWatch Ahmet Davutoglu, minister of foreign affairs, Republic of Turkey, talk about the direction of his country's foreign policy.
December 9, 2009
Security AlliancesThe fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago marked a new era in U.S.-European cooperation on global issues. Please join Philip H. Gordon to discuss the status and future of the relationship under a …
December 9, 2009
Security AlliancesWatch Philip H. Gordon, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, shed light on the status and future of the U.S.-European relationship under a new president's leadership, as we…
June 14, 2007
IraqROBBINS: Thank you all very much. You know here at the council we don't get invited back unless we start and finish on time, so -- you know, I value this very much, and I make -- I do what Richard w…
April 19, 2007
IraqDemands by Iraqi Kurds for greater autonomy have roiled their Turkish neighbors.
March 29, 2007
IraqSteven A. Cook, a CFR expert on Turkey, says “the great underreported story” of the Iraq war is the serious deterioration in U.S.-Turkish relations. “It has already blown up,” says Cook.