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June 10, 2015

Turkey
Turkey Comes Undone

This article was originally published here on The American Interest on Wednesday, June 10, 2015. Turks can be forgiven for the party they threw themselves late Sunday, stretching into Monday morning…

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

March 24, 2014

Turkey
On Cynicism and Twitter in Turkey

“Twitter…schmitter,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is reported to have said a few hours before a Turkish court gave the government legal writ to ban the micro-blogging service partially…

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

January 9, 2014

Politics and Government
Turkey’s Democratic Mirage

This article was originally posted here on ForeignAffairs.com on Thursday, January 9, 2014.  In 1996, Ergun Ozbudun, a well-known and well-regarded Turkish academic, published an article in the Jour…

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

April 21, 2014

Turkey
Turkey: "What Next?"

“What next?”  That is the question that virtually everyone in Turkey is asking and it has Turks on edge. It has become shorthand for a series of other questions: Will Prime Minister Erdogan declare h…

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

June 9, 2011

Turkey
Constitutional Stakes in Turkey’s Election

There is little doubt Prime Minister Erdogan’s AKP party will retain power in Turkey’s June 12 elections. The focus will be on whether he uses his mandate to consolidate Turkish democracy under a new…

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