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Turkey, NATO, and the Uses of Authoritarian Legitimacy
What Turkey wanted from NATO has changed, and so has what NATO is and represents. The 36th summit hosted in Ankara by a leader who jails his rivals…
Jul 2
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Ezgi Basaran
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June 2026
The more 'humane' the war, the longer it lasts
Yale professor Samuel Moyn, in a major Oxford lecture, argued that the West's drive to fight 'cleaner' wars is perpetuating them.
Jun 24
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Ezgi Basaran
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Interview with Faisal Devji: 'Islam as an actor, an agent, a protagonist in history is dying.'
I talked to Faisal Devji at Oxford about his arguments in his new book The Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam.I talked to F
Jun 18
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Ezgi Basaran
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Erdoğan, the Hejaz Railway and the Political Economy of Ottomanism
References to the glorious Ottoman past have been flying around in Turkey amid the memorandums signed with Syria and Saudi Arabia to revive the Hejaz…
Jun 11
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Ezgi Basaran
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Tom Barrack, Great Unifier(!)
He has done what no summit or peace plan could. Turks, Kurds and Arabs now agree on something.
Jun 4
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Ezgi Basaran
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May 2026
Why is Erdoğan upgrading authoritarianism
First they jailed his rival. Now a court has removed the opposition leader who took up the fight. Erdogan's Turkey has crossed the line from flawed…
May 28
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Ezgi Basaran
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The story that Erdoğan's Turkey wants from Syria
When I heard Hakan Fidan say those two words, I said to myself: a perfect example. He let slip the crux of the interaction. Pure gold.
May 20
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Ezgi Basaran
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Interview with Nathalie Tocci : Turkey is neither a baddie, nor a goodie for Europe
A conversation with Nathalie Tocci, among the sharpest readers of the European project, on Turkey's anomalous standing in Brussels, von der Leyen's…
May 12
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Ezgi Basaran
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Why Europe's foundational crisis runs through Syria and Gaza
Europe blames Putin, Trump and Xi for its predicament. But the rot began with the 2015 Syrian refugee deal with Erdoğan and became visible in the…
May 7
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Ezgi Basaran
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April 2026
Erdoğan and Israel's Muslim Brotherhood Trick
The Muslim Brotherhood label has a long history of doing political work. Israel is now reaching for it against Turkey, while the Brothers it nominally…
Apr 30
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Ezgi Basaran
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What Orban’s defeat tells us about Erdoğan and neoliberal rule
Orban's defeat to Magyar is read as continuity in a different form. A closer reading suggests the weakening of the neoliberal-populist system both…
Apr 23
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Ezgi Basaran
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The Armenians of Turkey and the newspaper that turned their voice public
Agos has done more than report on a community shaped by loss but has helped sustain a space in which Armenians could speak and be heard. Happy 30th…
Apr 15
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Ezgi Basaran
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