No “Hero of Haarlem” in Ankara
With Mary Mapes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the English-speaking world took to heart the tale of...
A nation must think before it acts.
Tag Archive: Justice and Development Party (AKP)
Turkey’s Parliamentary System has a Presidential Stage-Manager
In the summer of 2015, I wrote a profile of Turkey’s electoral system and noted the following: “In essence,...
Is Turkey’s Military Reentering Politics?
Hulusi Akar, the recently selected chief of Turkey’s military, confronts a very tense, if not perilous environment. His August appointment...
Resisting the Impossible: The Popular Resentment Behind the Gezi Park Protests
What is unfolding in Turkey is not a “Turkish Spring,” as many abroad have been calling it. Nor it...