...Kerem Öktem Elections under authoritarian regimes rarely deliver democratic outcomes. Still, most observers and pollsters expected Turkey’s May 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections to be different. A deepening economic crisis, a botched rescue effort after a devastating earthquake...

...Seçil Dağtaş; Şule Can The displacement of Syrians into Turkey is approaching its twelfth year, but the conditions of Syrian presence in the country are still fraught with ambivalence. The dramatic changes in migration and border dynamics and the instrumentalization of Syrian migrants in Turkish...

...Adeeb Khalid Claims that countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran are driven by imperial legacies to engage in aggressive foreign policies may oversell the influence of bygone empires and uniquely Eurasian mentalities on present-day geopolitics. The Russian Empire is no different...

... to other cities, becoming Turkey’s biggest antigovernment protests in recent years. They announced a new generation’s determination to defend secular democracy against authoritarian encroachments. The journey has taken us from old spaghetti Westerns with their fallible heroes and lovable villains...

... the next quarter-century. Neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia transitioned to liberal democracy. Backed by an increasingly assertive Turkey, Azerbaijan prevailed in a bloody war in 2020. This time, the regional authoritarian powers, Russia and Turkey, are overseeing what could be a test case for a new form...

... events and selected clashes. But it does not imply that Turks and Greeks are incapable of resolving their differences or peacefully coexisting. There are many examples of individuals and communities across the ethnic divide in Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus who have collaborated, cohabited, and progressed...

...Louis Fishman These two minority communities have to work within the confines of ethnonationalist states that question their right to participate in the political system. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Turkey Israel...

...Faten Ghosn [R]econstruction projects have already gotten underway in some parts of the country, such as those occupied by Turkey, while others have been without basic services for years. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Faten...

...Erol Balkan; Ahmet Öncü “The AKP's neoliberal regime created the ideology and conditions for transformative change in Turkey's new upper-middle-class culture, which trickled down to both the laic and Islamic middle-class factions.” Fourth in a series on social mobility around the world . © 2018...

... Chatty Syria Jordan Lebanon Turkey camps war civilians resettlement Europe United Nations High Commissioner Refugees UNHCR 337 The memory of the ties among the region s peoples under the Ottoman Empire has played a part in the kind of reception Syrians have received in their neighbor...

... An international chronology of events in October, country by country, day by day. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Spain Argentina Austria China Iraq Kenya Japan Turkey Israel Palestinians THE MONTH IN REVIEW...

... up on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, went viral on August 30, drawing global attention to the crisis. Meanwhile, thousands of refugees had gathered at the Keleti train station in Budapest, hoping to travel on to Austria and Germany. Allowing only a limited number to board for Rosenheim and Mu- nich...

... Ottoman Empire Turkey Caliphate pan-Arabism sharia political Islam Islamists religion state building women's rights 31 [The] incorporation of Islam within state institutions nationalized religious authorities and teachings, giving rise to a hegemonic version of the faith. The Nationalist...

...Kerem Öktem [W]hat sort of country is going to emerge from this revolutionary reshaping of society? © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Kerem Öktem Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Justice Development Party coup attempt...

... civil war Islamic State Barack Obama Russia Vladimir Putin Bashar al-Assad Turkey Libya Iraq Iran Middle East 337 The single most important external factor in the Syrian war s trajectory was the set of foreign policy beliefs Obama held well before the first shot was fired...

...Amanda Paul Ankara is cozying up to Moscow in a momentary fit of pique with the West, but economic and security realities make it likely that Turkey will stay in NATO's camp. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Amanda Paul Turkey...

... , 2015 . © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Monica Duffy Toft Elizabeth Shakman Hurd religious freedom human rights cultural imperialism Turkey Alevis Ottoman Empire book review To begin with, five facts:1...

... consequences. © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Samer Abboud Syria Free Syrian Army Local Coordination Committees Bashar al-Assad Turkey Islamic State ISIS Lebanon civil war 337 With major regional powers in disagreement...

... Suny . Princeton University Press , 2015 . © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved. 2015 The Regents of the University of California Howard Eissenstat Ronald Grigor Suny Armenian genocide Turkey Ottoman Empire Young Turks World War In 1985, 69 scholars of Turkish...

... of California Jenny White Turkey tipping point Erdogan AKP Turkish polarization ottoman nationalism authoritarianism aspiration platform elections kemalist fethullah gulen soma muslim turkishness kurd secularist secular religious PKK gezi kobani 356 By pulling the levers...