Turkey Risks Being Drawn Into Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen
Ankara’s new defense pact with Riyadh risks drawing Turkey into the war in Yemen. The country’s past experience offers a grim reminder of how ordinary Turks pay for such entanglements.
3 Article(s) by: Oğul Tuna
Oğul Tuna is a historian and writer working on Turkey, Eurasia, intellectual history, socialism, and the political cultures of the modern Middle East.
Turkey’s Key Role in NATO Is No Contradiction
Turkey, which hosts this week’s NATO summit, has the alliance’s second-largest army. Its strategic role in a US-dominated world order has long outweighed any concerns about its lack of democratic standards.
Turkey’s Opposition Party Is Mistaking Defeat for Virtue
After nearly a quarter century of AKP dominance, Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, remains unable to name its program, organize its social base, or break with the political culture that has made it so easy to defeat.