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July 21, 2016

Turkey
How Erdogan Made Turkey Authoritarian Again

It wasn't so long ago that the Turkish leader was seen as a model democrat in the Islamic world. What happened?

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

March 29, 2016

Turkey
"How Happy Is the One Who Says, I Am a Turk!"

The war between the military and Kurdish insurgents is really a conflict over what it means to be a citizen of Turkey. That’s why there’s no end in sight to the bloodshed.

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

August 9, 2014

Turkey
Turkey’s Secularists Surrender

I coauthored this post with my friend and colleague, Michael Koplow. He is the author of the blog: Ottomans & Zionists. When Turks go to the polls on August 10 to directly elect their president for …

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

July 3, 2015

Fourth of July Reading

Here is what Team Cook is reading during the long holiday weekend: Steven Cook – Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood—A History in Thirteen Centuries by Justin Marozzi. Lauren Cook – Disclaimer by…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 14, 2010

Israel
A Win for Turkish Democracy?

The win by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s party in the referendum on constitutional changes could improve Turkish democracy, says CFR’s Steven A. Cook, but fuels concerns about whether it augurs …

Interview by Steven A. Cook and Bernard Gwertzman