Gamze Cavdar, Colorado State University, Gamze.Cavdar@colostate.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Do Islamist governments harm women’s educational and professional opportunities? Previous scholarship suggests no consistent trend
Strategic Ambiguity: Explaining Foreign Policy Under the Erdogan Presidency
Ferhat Zabun, the Graduate Center, CUNY and Istanbul University, http://cuny.is/ofzabun This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. On 27 February 2020, at least 34 Turkish soldiers were killed
Turkey’s Phantom Coalition: The AKP-MHP Partnership and Turkish Foreign Policy
Sibel Oktay, University of Illinois at Springfield, sibelo@uis.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. The June 2015 parliamentary election was nothing short of a watershed moment for
Understanding Turkey’s Increasingly Militaristic Foreign Policy
Sinem Adar, Associate, Center for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, sinem.adar@swp.berlin.org This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. Since 2016, Turkish foreign
Domestic Politics in Turkey’s Foreign Policy/Turkey’s Foreign Policy, Inside Out
This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Introduction Turkey’s foreign policy over the past several years has been characterized as increasingly unilateral, aggressive, and risk-tolerant, from the purchase of a NATO-incompatible missile defense system