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 Political Islamists’ Foreign Policy Rhetoric in Their Native Language: A Turkish Operational Code Analysis Approach
Sercan Canbolat, University of Connecticut, sercan.canbolat@uconn.edu This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring 2020. Download the PDF of this piece here. In January 2009, then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of a panel at
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
Trust and Activism in the MENA
Nadine Sika, American University in Cairo This is part of the MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2019. Download the PDF of this piece here. Political trust is essential for stability in authoritarian regimes. It is an individual’s evaluation