Turkey

Opinion – A Precarious Peace in Türkiye?

Ayla Göl • Jul 29 2025 • Articles

The timing is ripe for Türkiye to grasp the moment to close a painful chapter in its history before grievances between the Kurds and the Turks hurt deeper.

Civilizational Nationalism: Concept, Cases, and Global Implications

Nicholas Morieson • Jul 28 2025 • Articles

For authoritarian regimes, civilization-state status has become a justification for pursuing an alternative, civilizationally-defined path to modernity.

Too Strategic, Not Diplomatic: Why Turkish Universities Lack Research Centers on Classical Diplomacy

Ali Balcı • Jul 23 2025 • Articles

Turkish IR remains entangled in abstract theorizing, ideological narratives, and policy polemics, often at the expense of systematic, evidence-based scholarship.

Review – Turkey and the West

Pınar Buket Kılınç Pala • Jul 16 2025 • Features

Kirişci traces Turkey–West tensions through history with sharp analysis, though post-2020 shifts call for updates to address today’s more complex geopolitical landscape.

Outsider Geopolitics: To Be, or Not to Be, in the Arctic

Eda Ayaydin and Andreas Raspotnik • Jul 10 2025 • Articles

Outsiderness in the Arctic is not a fixed condition but rather a relational and narrated identity for states such as Turkey and France, and institutions like the EU.

Opinion – Beyond Neo-Ottomanism in Turkey’s Syria Strategy

Anil Can Özgün • Jun 29 2025 • Articles

Stability in Syria and in the wider region depends on pragmatic engagement with Ankara, not outdated assumptions about empire.

Review – Contesting Pluralism

Venkkat G. Krishnan • May 7 2025 • Features

Fisher-Onar compellingly reframes Turkish politics as ‘pluralizers’ vs. ‘anti-pluralists’, though critics warn of reasserting Western hegemonies in pluralist terms.

Opinion – Turkey’s Continuing Autocratic Turn

Bahram P. Kalviri • May 4 2025 • Articles

While Erdoğan has filled state institutions with loyalists, deeply entrenched organizations like the military are not so easily reconstituted.

Protests in Turkey Amid a Global Shift to the Right

Bulent Gokay • Mar 30 2025 • Articles

The current juncture represents a particularly dismal chapter in Turkey’s history that displays all the traits of economic crisis and political exhaustion.

Reflecting on the 75th Anniversary of Indonesian-Turkish Relations

Hadza Min Fadhli Robby and Tufan Kutay Boran • Mar 27 2025 • Articles

As two rising middle powers, Indonesia and Türkiye should support each other in reinforcing their roles in regional and international affairs.

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