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Turkey and U.S. Enter Most Important Crisis in Recent Memory

On Sunday, the U.S. embassy announced the suspension of Turkish visa applications for the U.S., stating that “recent events…have forced the United States government to reassess the commitment of the [...] More

Turkey Has Lost Its Biggest Cheerleader: The U.S. Military

Turkey’s relations with the EU and place within NATO have come under increased scrutiny over the past year, especially during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's campaign to win a constitutional [...] More

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Speaking at a rally in Istanbul on March 26, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan further escalated his ongoing fight with Europe: “Have you [...] More

Erdogan Needs Enemies More Than Friends

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Trump Needs Political-Military Plan for ISIS

On January 28, President Donald Trump signed an order for the U.S. military to review the campaign against ISIS and develop a decisive plan to defeat [...] More

Will Turkey and Russia Make Up?

After the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, by an off-duty Turkish police officer, relations between Ankara and Moscow [...] More

Obama’s Meeting with Erdogan: “Minor Uptick” in U.S.-Turkey Relations

President Barack Obama and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met this weekend for the first time since the July 15 failed coup [...] More

Troubling Forces Unleashed

In a conversation with The Cipher Brief, Soner Cagaptay, the Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East [...] More

Tuesday Changed Everything

The Cipher Brief spoke with Soner Cagaptay, Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, to discuss the [...] More