Ottoman Empire

By Cynthia Chung May 18, 2020 In 1996 a task force, led by Richard Perle, produced a policy document titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy...

By Dimitris Vlahoutsikos In April, when Turkey celebrated the 100th anniversary of the National Parliament. The Daily Sabah newspaper published an article "The Dream of...

By M. Hakan Yavuz August 08, 2018 Turkey is entering a new era. Following a failed military coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016, a...

By Robert Spencer Feb 21, 2018 "We say at every opportunity we have that Syria, Iraq and other places in the geography in our hearts...

Modern Turkey is a strange amalgam of Western structures underpinned by Ottoman habits. Their various governments, whether military or not, are still heavily influenced by its huge military, and the contradiction between religion and secularism stills bedevils its development. Russia knows this, and knows that the bazaar mentality prevails in Turkish foreign policy. Rather than provoke a collapse of the shaky Turkish state, Russia prefers to weaken a neurotic NATO, and eventually bring Turkey into its sphere of influence, in the interests of Middle Eastern stability.

By Robert Fisk Just why is the Sultan of Turkey so impatient to get hold of that visa-free EU travel for his people to visit...

100 years ago, the terms of a secret deal dividing the Middle East between the UK and France were put forward. A century on,...