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Turkey with Lebanon, what is it, what it is not + Israel’s Beiruti tycoon
Closer ties between Lebanon and Turkey have revived the question of who inherits Lebanon after Iran. Let's unpack what Turkey can and cannot do, plus…
Aug 19
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Ezgi Basaran
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Extraordinary weeks for the Kurds
From al-Sharaa's reception of the Kurds to Turkey's amnesty law, a fortnight that moved the Kurdish issue forward on several fronts at once.
Aug 12
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Ezgi Basaran
13
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The state of the Iraqi state
An awkward moment between the Iraqi PM and Turkey's president in Ankara laid bare how the Iraqi state is run, and how exposed it now is between Turkey…
Aug 5
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Ezgi Basaran
12
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July 2026
The Odysseus of Turkey's Opposition
Özgür Özel and his colleagues have left the party Atatürk founded to build a new one, one of the most consequential breakaways in Turkish political…
Jul 29
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Ezgi Basaran
15
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The role of the Kurds in the upended Middle East
With war resuming in Iran, let us look together at the clues now surfacing about the Kurds’ changing role in the Middle East.
Jul 22
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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.
Jul 17
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Ezgi Basaran
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The Iranian Regime’s Best Enemy
The US-Israeli war on Iran was a godsend to a regime whose legitimacy was threadbare after the winter's protests. With the war resumed, what does the…
Jul 16
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Ezgi Basaran
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Extremely dangerous love of Mr Trump
Trump came to the NATO summit bearing gifts for Erdogan and contempt for everyone else. Their bond is personal, volatile, and dangerous at a moment when…
Jul 9
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Ezgi Basaran
11
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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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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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