Geopoliticus February 24, 2017 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... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 7, 2016 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,... Read more »
Geopoliticus October 15, 2015 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... Read more »
Geopoliticus June 28, 2013 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... Read more »