Just days before Turkey’s main opposition party was set to select its next presidential candidate, the leading contender, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested and jailed, effectively removing ...

In response to the request for information (RFI) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Science and ...

President Donald Trump’s administration dialed up its use of military power in the Middle East this past week just as it took ...

I’m standing on a plateau of history. I’m taking a glimpse at what the future holds for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in terms of challenges and opportunities in the next half-century. Since its ...

After decades of managing tensions through careful balancing, Turkey and Iran now find themselves increasingly at odds ...

Reflections on a recent visit to Baghdad. Much has changed and ordinary life has resumed in Iraq's capital, but deep ...

The United States dramatically stepped up its military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, initiating heavy bombing and ...

Assoc. Prof. Murat Somer and Prof. Dr. Kemal Kirişci discussed a recent AKP initiative known as the Kurdish Opening which aims to solve the Kurdish issue in Turkey. These two scholars provided an ...

Dr. Steven A. Cook, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, moderated a panel discussion on issues pertaining to Turkey’s relations with Iran, Iraq and Israel. Speakers Cengiz Çandar, ...