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Explainer / What Will Trump’s “Giftbag” Contain for Erdoğan? F35s or Less?
Ahead of a NATO Summit in Ankara, Trump has—in a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the White House—publicly hinted at bringing a “gift bag” of F‑35s and F‑110 jet engines for Erdoğan, portraying himself as wil...
"The Fix Is In": How Mob-Style Governance Became the Global Template
The epiphany hit me on an airplane about six or seven years ago. I was reading Selwyn Raab’s massive book, Five Families — about the Genovese, Gambino, Bonanno, Colombo, and Lucchese families. The most interesting part was how these mob cap...
How Turkey’s Post–Cold War Trajectory Helped Normalize the Far-Right, Modern Autocracies
In many respects, the huge vortex of “autocratization” into which Turkey is being dragged must be understood within a broader historical context. That context lies in how its rulers behaved in the post–Cold War period, arguing that the coun...
Explainer/ Turkey’s Democratic Endgame: President Erdoğan Closes the Circuit
In a landmark and profoundly consequential ruling delivered today, on May 21, 2026, the Ankara appeals court annulled the results of the CHP’s 38th Congress, held on November 4–5, 2023, voiding the election of Özgür Özel as chairman of Turk...
Drifting into the Margins: Is Turkey Trapped in a Diplomatic 'No-Man’s Land'?
The world keeps getting messier, and Turkey’s external posture is becoming correspondingly blurred. What we witness is a calibrated attempt to carve out space against the slow drift towards isolation, rather than a settled, coherent strateg...
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