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How long will Erdoğan go on?

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Middle East

How long will Erdoğan go on?

‘Democracy is not our goal but our vehicle to get there,’ Erdoğan once said as mayor of Istanbul

Daniel Thorpe

Can Erdoğan get a grip on Turkey’s spiraling inflation?

Turks are migrating, not only from the cities to the countryside, but also leaving the country altogether

Daniel Thorpe

Is the New York Times’s Gaza mayor op-ed worth condemning?

‘Pro-free speech’ outlets on the right are making ‘platforming’ arguments

Cockburn

What Turkey has to celebrate on its centenary

Life for Turks would have turned out far worse if the Great Powers had succeeded in imposing the settlement they intended for the Ottomans’ Anatolian heartlands

Jeremy Seal

Middle East

Erdoğan’s win was a victory for fear over hope

Turks chose the devil they knew

Owen Matthews

Diary
May 18, 2023
The Turkish election results were deeply demoralizing
This is very bad news for anyone who believes in democracy and respects the most basic human rights
Elif Shafak
Middle East
May 14, 2023
Erdoğan appears set for a runoff
Kılıçdaroğlu is seen as a safe pair of hands after years of political repression and conspiracy theorizing
Owen Matthews
Middle East
May 14, 2023
Turkey is on a knife-edge
Widescale election fraud by Erdoğan supporters is almost a tradition
Ece Temelkuran
Middle East
March 25, 2023
Is Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu a threat to Erdoğan’s reign?
Turks have been willing to surrender their freedom in exchange for security and prosperity
Owen Matthews
February 19, 2023
Turkey’s inadequate earthquake response
Erdoğan says no government could have been prepared for an earthquake of this magnitude. That is not true
Elif Shafak
Place
February 14, 2023
A year in Gaziantep before the earthquake
Those looking for the new Casablanca would not have been disappointed with this Turkish city
Sam Sweeney
International
February 13, 2023
Enes Kanter Freedom on LeBron, Erdoğan and the earthquake
‘LeBron knows that the shoes that he has been wearing are made by slave kids’
John Pietro
Middle East
February 6, 2023
Who will rescue Turkey after the earthquake?
‘People in my hometown are digging neighbors out from the rubble with their own hands’
Daniel Thorpe
International
January 27, 2023
Turkey’s heavy price for pressuring the Russians
Is Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership really worth appeasing Erdogan?
Daniel DePetris
International
January 17, 2023
Why Sweden and Finland still haven’t joined NATO
Months after they moved to join the alliance, Turkey is standing in their way
John Pietro

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