Turkey’s recent policies in Syria are emblematic of the way a middle power can exert influence in its region, sometimes outmaneuvering seemingly stronger players. Throughout Syria’s civil war, which ...

Ankara sees the fall of the Assad regime and the rise of new Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa as a generational opportunity for ...

Turkey has played a critical role in NATO security since its 1952 ascension to the alliance. Now the organization has few ...

A Swedish journalist who was arrested in Turkey in March when he traveled there to cover nationwide protests has been ...

Ukrainian officials and analysts say that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has few options but to draw U.S. President ...

And it has been deployed by would-be autocrats around the world.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev continues to insist that “the Turkic World is our family”—a perspective that resonates ...

Russia and Ukraine are due to hold their first direct peace talks in three years Friday, gathering in Istanbul for ...

The jailing by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of a key political opponent is a blatant repudiation of the rights ...

Power is being centralised through legal means such as referendums, manipulated court rulings and selective prosecutions ...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine ...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has ended four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish state. The PKK, which has ...