“This is the Nato summit of reactionary nationalism”
Western leaders once publicly criticised Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s illiberalism. Now they greet him like one of their own
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Istanbul: the fish is better than the infrastructure
Mackerel from the Bosphorus is as good as WB Yeats said
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Iran, Turkey and the Nato paradox
Turkey’s delicate position – in the conflict and the region – lays bare the alliance’s contradictions
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Erdoğan’s revenge
The president’s arrest of his rival, Ekrem İmamoğlu, follows a familiar trajectory. It could also backfire spectacularly.
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The year ahead: Are we on the verge of a new Middle East?
A democratic Syria and rising Turkey would ask different questions of Israel.
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Elif Shafak’s warning from history
There Are Rivers in the Sky is the Turkish novelist at her ambitious and empathetic best.
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The Turkish Detective is both familiar and delightfully other
This series based on Barbara Nadel’s bestselling novels is really rather good summer viewing.
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Can Turkey be saved?
Istanbul’s fiercely fought mayoral election could decide the country’s political future.
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The twilight of Erdoğanism
How the authoritarian model that remade Turkey over the past two decades has reached its limits.
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An atrocity remembered
The afterlife of the Armenian genocide.
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Xi and Putin: are there limits to the “no limits” friendship?
The two leaders seek to remake the global order, while Turkey braces itself for a hotly contested May election.
Europe lost Turkey once. It cannot afford to make the same mistake again
The EU contributed to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian turn, but with help from Turkey’s upcoming election, it can undo the…
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The anger and hope the earthquake left behind
As the death toll in Syria and Turkey passes 36,000, survivors question whether some deaths could have been prevented.
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Russia is to blame for holding up earthquake aid to Syria
For years the Kremlin has been using its veto power at the UN Security Council to hold aid for those…
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After the earthquake, the rage in Turkey is greater than the pain
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has undermined the country’s response.
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Erdoğan exposes Nato’s mirage of unity
The president of Turkey is leveraging Sweden and Finland’s desire to join Nato to further his interests abroad and at…
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Striker, shopkeeper, pigeon: what Sweden and Nato should know about Erdoğan
The Turkish president has been moving the goalposts domestically for 20 years. The international community must catch up.
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Aubergines off the menu in Turkey as inflation bites
Controversial economic policies are causing prices to soar and consumers to cut back on groceries.
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Osman Kavala’s life sentence is the death knell for Turkish democracy
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is trying to delegitimise all forms of protest in the country.
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With Russia tied down in Ukraine, other frozen conflicts are thawing
From the Caucasus to the western Pacific, Russia’s opponents are eyeing their chances of redressing the balance of power.
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