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President Erdoğan's announcement of an imminent incursion onto northern Syria has complicated his spat with NATO. What will Sweden and Finland do, to meet Turkey's conditions to lift its veto on NATO membership? What is the prime reason for Sweden to keep its relations with the Syrian Kurdish YPG forces? At the end of the day, will the USA be able …

Yavuz Baydar speaks with Suat Kınıklıoğlu, a top expert on Turkish foreign policy.By Ahval

Turkey’s decades old neo-Ottomanist ideology has been transformed and strengthened under the administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Cengiz Çandar, a senior Turkish columnist and Middle East expert. In a discussion with Ahval editor-in-chief Yavuz Baydar for the Hot Pursuit podcast, Çandar spoke about his latest book “Turkey’s Neo-Ot…

Turkey’s crisis of democracy may not end with the departure of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as there is ample reason to question whether fair elections would occur in a post-Erdoğan Turkey, said Steven Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relation. Turkey may struggle to emerge as a he…

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sees it as a success to secure a bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, he may well be walking into a trap, Aykan Erdemir, senior director of the Turkey Program at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies (FDD) in Washington D.C., told Ahval’s editor-in-chief Yavuz Baydar for th…

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe’s latest decisions on jailed politician Selahattin Demirtaş and jailed human rights defender and businessperson Osman Kavala, show that Turkish judiciary is not independent, Yavuz Aydın, a judge and a former judicial councillor with Turkey's European Union delegation, said. The Committee of Minist…

Hasan Kahvecioğlu, journalist from Cyprus, spoke to Yavuz Baydar.By Ahval

Turkey is never going to have a great relationship with the United States as long as Erdogan continues to behave in autocratic ways, Nicholas Danforth, a non-resident senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, ELIAMEP told Ahval paper’s editor-in-chief Yavuz Baydar in Ahval’s Hot Pursuit YouTube interview ser…

Even if Turkey manages to come up with a solution to the S400 issue or the eastern Mediterranean issue during the NATO meeting on June 14 between U.S President Joe Biden and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, there is not going to be a new page within the U.S. Turkish relationship without real democracy and reforms, Merve Tahiroglu, the …

Yavuz Baydar, Editor-in-Chief of Ahval, spoke with Kurdish scholar David Phillips.By Ahval

Turkey's strongman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will try to use some "magic" to reset the relationship with U.S. President Joe Biden at their upcoming meeting in June. His “magic,” however, is unlikely to work at this time, Dr. Aykan Erdemir, senior director of the Turkey Program at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies (FDD) in …

The accusations levelled by the exiled mafia boss Sedat Peker regarding the Turkish deep state activities, political assassination of a Cypriot journalist and many other shocking revelations paint a very complicated picture for Turkey regarding its ruling coalition. The series of video revelations by Peker indicate that the Turkish state apparatus …

'Mob boss Peker's videos show us the second side of the cartel state of Turkey' - Prof Hamit BozarslanBy Ahval

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In the latest crackdown on Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party, the HDP, Turkish authorities on Wednesday stripped Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a prominent HDP legislator and human rights advocate, of his parliamentary seat. Meanwhile, a prosecutor filed a case with Turkey’s highest court, seeking the HDP’s disbandment. The HDP has come under intensi…

Turkey's European Union membership candidacy trajectory is unsustainable and the country sees the steady demise of freedom and human rights, said former two term deputy of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Haluk Ozdalga during a podcast with Ahval.By Ahval

Turkey considers the United States not simply a rival but a declining rival which has abandoned foreign intervention in the Middle East since the Obama Administration leading to political vacuum, Howard Eissenstat, an Associate Professor of Middle East history at St. Lawrence University, said in an AHVAL podcast with Ahval’s editor-in-chief Yavuz B…

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Duel in the East Mediterranean: Who will win, Erdoğan or Sisi? - Nicholas Danforth / ELIAMEPBy Ahval

'Biden will have big challenges with Turkey, but the ball is fully in Erdoğan's court' - Max Hoffman / CAPBy Ahval

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'2020 was the year Erdoğan's Cartel State has run out of its options' - Prof Hamit BozarslanBy Ahval

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How Erdoğan became the hostage of the mafia-backed 'cartel state' he constructed? - Prof Hamit BozarslanBy Ahval

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'Picnic' in Varosha: What is Erdoğan's endgame with North Cyprus? - Hasan KahvecioğluBy Ahval

İlhan Tanır ile Ali Abaday ABD'de 3 Kasım'da yapılan seçimlerin ardından geçen iki haftada yaşanan olayları değerlendirdi.By Ahval

Journalist Thomas de Waal, spoke to editor in chief of Ahval Yavuz BaydarBy Ahval

Turkey can expect significant changes in its relations with the United States under a Joe Biden presidency, Steven Cook, senior fellow for the Middle East and North Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Ahval in a podcast. If elected, Biden would emphasis rule of law with significant possible implications for Turkey, Cook said.…

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ABD'de seçimlere 5 gün kala New York Times gazetesinde Halkbank davası üzerine çıkan ayrıntılı bir yazı seçime nasıl etki edecek? Anketlerde kim önde?By Ahval

ABD seçimlerine bir hafta kala anketlerde fark azalıyor. İlhan Tanır ile Ali Abaday seçimlere az bir süre kala yaşanan son gelişmeleri ve anket şirketlerine ne derece güvenilmesi gerektiğini konuştu.By Ahval

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'Erdoğan is the one who won the elections, loser is Northern Cyprus' - Hasan Kahvecioğlu, Cengiz AktarBy Ahval

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'Erdoğan government dials up opposition crackdown by seizing assets’By Ahval

What does the widening of atrocities in Karabakh region mean? How should one read into the spillover of clashes into Armenia and Azerbaijan? What is Turkey’s strategy in its direct involvement on Azeri side? How does one explain the indecision of Russia to intervene in the conflict, as it passes its eighth day? Is the Turkish engagement the beginni…

ABD Başkanı Donald Trump'ın koronavirüse yakalanması bütün ülke gündemini değiştirdi. Ahval İngilizce editörü İlhan Tanır ile Ali Abaday, Trump'ın koronavirüse yakalanmasını ve sonraki gelişmeleri, seçimlere olası etkisini konuştu.By Ahval

There is no reason for Armenia to kickstart another bout of conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Thomas de Waal, British journalist and expert on the Caucasus, told Ahval in an exclusive interview. Sunday morning saw a sudden escalation in the conflict, with what Karabakh officials called a “wholescale attack” by the …

Political science professor Muzaffer Şenel told Ahval editor David Lepeska that he expects the European Union to levy minor sanctions against Turkey this week, that both Turkey and Greece are asserting maximalist maritime claims and that Turkish politicians are increasingly using refugees as scapegoats for the country’s economic and social issues.…

İlhan Tanır ve gazeteci Ali Abaday son 6 haftaya girilen kritik ABD seçimlerinde olanları tartıştı. Efsane Anayasa Mahkemesi Üyesi Gingsburg'ün ölümünün 3 Kasım seçimlerine getirecekleri, götürecekleri masaya yatırıldı.By Ahval

'Turkish foreign policy is a hostage of Erdoğan's personal interests' - Merve Tahiroğlu / POMEDBy Ahval

MİT TIR’ları davasında yargılanan ve mahkemenin hakkında 15 gün içinde gelmemesi halinde tüm malvarlığına el koyulması kararı verdiği Can Dündar, Ahval'e mahkemenin son kararını ve Türkiye'deki son gelişmeleri değerlendirdi.By Ahval

Turkey's self-isolating moves in the region elicits a containment policy, Erdemir says.By Ahval