Turkey

In light of the ongoing military coup attempt in Istanbul, here is The Cipher Brief’s recent feature explaining the myriad problems facing Turkey.  We will […] More

In the late 1970s, Turkey experienced a convulsion of political violence between leftist and rightist factions that killed almost five thousand people by the time […] More

The recent wave of violence in Turkey can be grouped into three categories. The first is the operations led by Turkish security forces in parts […] More

Russia is playing a game of Bismarckian realpolitik in the Middle East – political maneuvering based on current conditions, rather than on ideological premises, that […] More

The chaos we’re seeing today throughout the Mideast continues to escalate and shows no signs of subsiding. The United States and the West seem unwilling […] More

In the past five years, the Middle East has suffered from a double collapse.  First, having proven unable to provide capable political institutions or economic […] More

A couple years ago, when the Middle East was in turmoil but considerably less complicated than today, I was at a small gathering of foreign […] More

With the Middle East ablaze, new opportunities have emerged for regional cooperation. In fact, partnerships have formed in the most unlikely of places, as Israel […] More

Former head of Israel’s Shin Bet and current Knesset member Yaakov Perry discussed Israel’s cooperation with its neighbors to combat regional threats.  Perry explained that […] More

The collapse or weakening of state authority in different parts of the Middle East and Africa, together with growing inner challenges and chronic instability in […] More

An image of a drowned Syrian boy washed up on the beach clearly signifies a failure on the part of the global humanitarian system. A […] More

CIPHER SNAPSHOT: Turkey is a critical country for U.S. interests. Recent developments in Turkey’s domestic politics, economic outlook, and foreign policy have significant ramifications for […] More

The Cipher Brief spoke with Mr. Khush Chosky, Vice President for Turkey and Middle East Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to get his thoughts […] More

The Cipher Brief spoke with Mr. Sinan Ulgen, founder and managing partner of Istanbul Economics and a visiting  scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, to […] More

There is a profound change in regional geopolitics in the Middle East after the Arab Spring. The societal demands for change in Arab countries led […] More